Irish Sea: Neil Mackay and Mainland Britain

irish sea: Thanks to coronavirus there will be no demonstrations in Belfast, no rioting or rabble-rousing, according to Rabble. Politicians are too busy tackling the outbreak to squabble over the constitution and ramp up division. Writer at Large Neil Mackay looks at how coronavirus has thrown the world of geopolitics into fluxWITH little fanfare and certainly no shots fired, the island of Ireland took a historic step towards unification a few days ago. Beneath the fog of pandemic, a very significant shift has occurred in the geopolitical order, and no-one is taking that much notice. That effectively puts the border by the Irish Sea, at ports like Belfast and therefore between Ulster and mainland Britain, not Ulster and Ireland. The British Government confirmed on Wednesday that there will now be checks on goods entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK as part of Brexit. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.