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  The solution is that the UK needs to rejoin the SM and CU, and accept the conditions.
context: Just give it back to Ireland >
  
  The problem with that is that no uk prime minister wants to be the pm that sees uk give up land so close to home. >
  
  And you'd sort of need the people who live there to agree.. There is a whole process set up for that after all. >
  
  You really think the UK will let that happen. >
  
  The UK has run a border poll in NI before, the GFA explicitly sets out the route to one, and the UK has run other referenda (most recently in Scotland) in independence. So yes? >
  
  It’s not that I doubt they don’t have the means I just doubt a sitting pm would ever allow it because UK nationalists would campaign to get them out of power afterwards. >
  
  I'm not sure that NI is that high on the radar for most UK nationalists (or that UK nationalists are a big enough constituency to bin a PM for that matter..), throw in that a referendum would neatly pass the 'blame' to those that voted, rather than the PM who offered it, doubly so if it were as a result of a process enshrined in an agreement the UK had in place for a long time prior.  
  Lastly, the Scottish IndyRef shows that it's viable and fairly current for a Government to offer a vote, even if the potential outcome is a part of the UK splitting away. Throw in that the EU referendum shows that UK Governments/Parliaments will follow through with referendum outcomes even where they broadly oppose the outcome, and it gets hard to argue that the UK wouldn't allow something to happen. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  Disputes over implementation of the Northern Ireland protocol have become the achilles heel of the European Union's relations with the UK, the German foreign minister has said ahead of talks with the UK foreign secretary, James Cleverly, in London.
  Annalena Baerbock's appeal to find a solution to the deadlock over the Northern Ireland protocol came as she was due to meet Cleverly on Thursday to discuss support for Ukraine and the UK's relationship with Germany.
  A lot of people from the nationalist background in Northern Ireland feel that it has separated them from the rest of Ireland.
  
  
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