Brexit pact welcome news for federalists

AS a general rule, if something political upsets the DUP, it will go down well with federalists. So it is with Teresa May’s Brexit deal: the DUP see in it the break-up of the United Kingdom.

For a federalist, the deal is good news and the breakup of an unhappy UK can’t happen soon enough.

Whenthebreak-up comes, the UK will have to be replaced with the federal kingdom of Ireland, whose flag is the Royal Flag of Ireland, are design of the Irish tricolour, representative of the four historic provinces: Connaught, Leinster, Munster and Ulster, with a house of representatives situated in each provincial capital and a federal central government in Dublin. The Queen should be head of state for the 32 counties.

This federal kingdom of Ireland should be within the confederate kingdom of the isles of the north Atlantic, the British Isles being redefined as indicated.

A confederacy is a pact, or treaty, between sovereign independent countries, having a common policy on trade, currency, the regulated movement of labour, capital goods and services, the control of state borders, with a common school curriculum in all schools throughout the confederation, along with a statement on rights to be enjoyed by minorities within each jurisdiction.

In this way, the isles of the north Atlantic would be structured as a mini-common market. Thus structured, the kingdom is not lost, but is still there in a confederate kingdom of the isles of the north Atlantic, whose head of state is the monarch and whose flag is the Union flag, redefined as the flag of the isles.

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