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  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.
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?