It looks like the Brexit might be entering a fateful few weeks

After over a year of waiting to see if Theresa May's government had anything practical to offer on the Irish border, it looks like Ireland's gay Taoiseach (Prime Minister) finally lost patience.

According to today's Guardian, he is threatening to block progress unless he gets some guarantees:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ey-and-ireland


Looks like Irish leader is dropping his big Celtic fist on the table:


"...Varadkar’s warning was the most blunt, though the EU is likely to take the lead from Ireland when it assesses whether enough genuine progress has been made on the issue of the border with Northern Ireland, one of the three key topics which must be agreed before talks progress to trade.

“We’ve been given assurances that there will be no hard border in Ireland, that there won’t be any physical infrastructure, that we won’t go back to the borders of the past,” Varadkar said before his meeting with May. “We want that written down in practical terms in the conclusions of phase one....”


Shows that the Irish government must have little faith in the possibility of May and her government being able to live up to her promises if they are insisting on written guarantees. And he is threatening to block moving on to phase two if he doesnt get his way. He must feel pretty confident about having the support of Barnier, Tusk and co if he feels able to issue threats like that.


And he dropped one big burn on the Brexiteers in general:

..."Earlier at the summit, Varadkar was scathing about UK politicians who had backed Brexit: “It’s 18 months since the referendum. It’s 10 years since people who wanted a referendum started agitating for one. Sometimes it doesn’t seem like they have thought all this through....”

Ooh, that must have hurt! No better guy than a gayer dish the insults!