People Before Profit is backing Brexit - or as it prefers to call it, ‘Lexit’, for ‘Left exit’. So keen are the comrades to trot out of the capitalist EU hegemon that if the UK leaves they are vowing to campaign for the Republic to leave as well. In the meantime, the party is assuring supporters that the border would be unaffected because the common travel area and an Anglo-Irish free trade treaty both pre-date the EU. Alas, while we could travel passport-free after Brexit, customs posts would be required. EU membership nullifies and precludes bilateral trade deals and in any case, the 1965 free trade agreement People Before Profit seems to be referring to was only signed by the UK and Ireland to prepare for their joint accession to Europe. Should serious politicians not know this?

Newton Emerson
(Here:
http://www.irishnews.com/opinion/columnists/2016/05/21/news/new-era-of-opposition-politics-dawns-at-stormont-526387/)

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