{"id":2767,"date":"2022-05-06T23:37:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T21:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2023-01-31T03:32:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T01:32:10","slug":"northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=2767","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Ireland and Scotland should join the Irish Republic together. That would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=166\">solve<\/a> all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=386\">problems<\/a> at once: Protestants and Catholics would be at roughly the same numbers in the New Ireland &#8211; none of them could subdue the other. Nobody would have to start an application procedure to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=71\">European<\/a> Union, as Ireland could claim similarity of its extension to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=61\">Germany<\/a>&#8216;s. No additional seat needed in the Council of the European Union, only some additional MEPs. And no border in the Irish Sea! Even the Tories could be happy: Without Irish nor Scots, they keep their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=137\">majority<\/a> in Westminster :-)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Malte<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">05\/22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Ireland and Scotland should join the Irish Republic together. That would solve all the problems at once: Protestants and Catholics would be at roughly the same numbers in the New Ireland &#8211; none of them could subdue the other. Nobody would have to start an application procedure to the European Union, as Ireland could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3222,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions\/3222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}