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Albion M Urdank's avatar

N Ireland voted against Brexit and now remains in the EU single market for goods. This, along with the demographic and general shift toward secularism among youth in the South Stephens describes, will combine to force a gradual eventual drift toward full Irish unity. A revival of Lloyd George's Council of Ireland can only facilitate this long term transition, not function as a fixed, institutional replacement for it.

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For 2019, the financial subsidies (annual subvention) included:

pension payments (£3.4 billion);

share of the UK's national debt and annual repayments (£2.4 billion); and

share of the UK's defence budget (£1.1 billion).

It seems most unlikely the Republic of Ireland would inherit these liabilities.

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