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**Chris** · 01-03-2023, 12:24

The UK is a unitary state, whose citizens voted on the future relationship between that state and a supranational institution called the EU. Regardless of the UK’s internal construction or history, there was no separate vote in NI or Scotland or anywhere else.

These present separate negotiations have been necessary entirely because of the existence of a separate international treaty, the Belfast Agreement, which mandates an invisible international land border between the UK and the Republic of Ireland. It was drafted without considering the possibility that the UK and Ireland might find themselves on opposite sides of an EU external border, which complicated things somewhat.

01-03-2023, 12:24	#4901
Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 36,995	Re: Britain outside the EU The UK is a unitary state, whose citizens voted on the future relationship between that state and a supranational institution called the EU. Regardless of the UK’s internal construction or history, there was no separate vote in NI or Scotland or anywhere else. These present separate negotiations have been necessary entirely because of the existence of a separate international treaty, the Belfast Agreement, which mandates an invisible international land border between the UK and the Republic of Ireland. It was drafted without considering the possibility that the UK and Ireland might find themselves on opposite sides of an EU external border, which complicated things somewhat.