Brexit ‘is battle for the Union itself’: DUP’s Dodds

Mark Neale: That’s why any unionist with an ounce of sense voted Remain. I, like many others, have no time for the EU and a lot of what it stands for, but a blind man on the proverbial galloping horse saw that any form of Brexit would lead to Northern Ireland being pushed further onto the windowsill of the Union. There is no love for Northern Ireland in Great Britain. Never forget that Theresa May and all her Cabinet colleagues in December last were happily annexing Northern Ireland off until the Belgians leaked the ‘agreed backstop’ text.

Donald Stewart: Mark Neale, you have some good points, but the big issue for me is the line down the middle of the Irish Sea, creating a border for our companies trying to get goods into Great Britain. Our agriculture and food businesses don’t need that.

Mark Neale: Donald Stewart, absolutely. This was always going to be the threat. You can view it from a political, or a financial/business, perspective. Either/or. The outcome is the just same: equally damaging and equally detrimental to us.

Peter Kieran Ellison: What a fool I was. I was only a puppet and so was Ulster and so was Ireland in the political game that was to get the Conservative Party into power. Pauline Morgan:

Brexit was a vote to keep sovereignty and not to be ruled by unelected money men in Europe. A fight for democracy. Huge monopolies are not good for any country. Everyone is, as usual, so busy taking sides and pointing fingers, falling for the old ‘divide and rule’, that they cannot see what’s actually happening.

GR Rutherford: I have never heard Arlene mention hard border. As per the Good Friday Agreement, the UK Government is responsible for the border.

Clem O Buadhachain: Most of the north’s exports come south, over 1,000 trucks a week. Some continue on to Britain and the Continent.

Dolores Ni Gearailt The Union is under threat? What about nursing shortages, RHI, school closures etc? You put us here, so you fix it.