Another modest proposal
for BoJo en route to Belfast...
Talleyrand May 15, 2022
The government of the United Kingdom has begun implementing a strange policy of sending would-be asylum cases to Rwanda. Who really gains by that policy is anyone’s guess. But it does stimulate thinking about other candidates for population transfer.
For example, there is the dwindling population of Unionists in Northern Ireland. That population is loud, influential, important, and sometimes troublesome. But it continues to dwindle.
Anyone paying attention to Russia’s difficulties along its own Western borders is struck by the idea that parts of Europe are reverting to what they were before the middle of the seventeenth century.
So, how about this: any former Unionists who do not declare their allegiance to a united Ireland may join a newly formed Cossack-style population of settlers in the Eastern European marches. The EU would pay for the land; the UK would provide the people.
The UK would gain by being relieved of a burden.
The EU would gain by having a committed and self-interested border protection force.
(That it would be mainly Protestant adds value for Viktor Orbán, et al.)
The Irish ex-Unionists would gain by having a new cause in a new land.
The Republic of Ireland and Irish nationalists would gain by having a united Ireland and no weird, jerry-built borders with the European Union.
Even Russia would gain, for Irish curtains are known for being more durable than most others.
What is there to lose?