Powerless before the Brexit earthquake
We are fooling ourselves if we think we will have any influence on what will happen to both parts of this island in negotiations over the coming months and years
It is the calm before the almighty storm. Last week in Dublin, Belfast, London and Brussels, the politicians were sitting across from each other, attempting to reconfigure a once-familiar political landscape. Everywhere there is a growing sense of unease, a deepening perception of not knowing where we are headed. We face into a political prognosis that only a year ago would have been unimaginable. It’s a long time since blind man’s bluff was played out on this scale.
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