Re: @ Chinashaw
The Irish Border is a UK problem while Northern Ireland is still a part of the UK (while there is still a UK, the whole Brexit thing seems to be an English idea). A hard border between North and South could well kick off the troubles again.
Nothing has been healed there, merely stitched together, as the population keeps voting the same idiot parties in (but then, people keep voting the same idiots in everywhere, as the alternative idiots are assumed to be more dangerous, and the alternatives are judged to small/ineffective/untried).
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The UK has always seemed weirdly divided and fragmented by geography, class, local grudges, etc.
And somehow, these things seem to linger for centuries without much real progress.
Seen from a safe distance, it looks like a case where major restructuring is in order... probably starting with eradicating class/dialect/accent/wealth/status differentiation. Not sure how you would do it, but really, it has to be done.
Otherwise, social attitudes look to stay stuck in the 17th century.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
