Trading Troubles

Fenian troublemakers in the Free State have inexplicably joined forces with the ghastly Euro-wogs to delay the negotiations that will determine how far merely European trading interests are to be subordinated to those of the mainland. Apparently the Republic of Ireland believes that, as a member of the European Union, it has some sort of say in what the European Union will do; and this despite the fact that the Recrudescent Imperium of Westminster, Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands has already solved everything to its own satisfaction and is waiting for the ghastly Euro-wogs to catch up. The former Minister for Werritty has made it entirely clear that Her Majesty's Government does not want a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Free State, while also making it transparently plain that Her Majesty's Government refuses to compromise on demands that will lead to a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Free State. In any case, a final answer to the Irish Question will just have to wait until Her Majesty's Government has decided what the final answer is; not least because Her Majesty's Government has already spent a billion or so from the magic money tree in order to buy the votes of a handful of creationist gay-bashers, and if there is one thing Her Majesty's Government cannot abide, it is wasting taxpayers' money.