I'm betting it's a bluff

no way they'd actually try and force RoI to man the border

Does that mean the it will be ROI Border Patrol vs IRA

That's a battle I'd like to watch

I'll pay 39b to see this happen

If they do that, RoI may well end up joining the UK instead

EU Army vs IRA

RoI can join the UK in becoming a US state.

How ironic would that be?

It's not like the Irish _love_ the EU all that much, after the repeated referendums they were forced into.

I'd actually like to see the UK join the US, not sure if I'd like it to be as a state tho

Deep integration maybe

But as a state... we just dont agree enough

Once we're out and once we've recovered from the fact our government hasn't prepared for this like it should have; I'm sure more nations will follow.

I'm sure of it too

customs union with US might work

Greece being one

@leavethisbotnet that I could agree too

That's fair wladfa. I find it humorous in the sense that US is the child of the UK, the UK is getting old and needs their children to look after them.

I think that metaphor works if you awknowledge the long running regeneration that the UK does

We're rather Vampiric.

Like well have a stage of old age, and start to come back a bit

Yaaa

Our children protect us, we protect them

It's all gravy

We love you too son. Even if you are having another one of them... phases.

HA

Let's get FOS and RTBA in our constitution and get down the pub

I can get behind the pub part.

Itd be interesting to get the dollar and the pound bound together and then merge different parts of the economies

Nothing else really matters when you've got a pub.

What would it be? The Dollar Sterling?

I'm sure our banking sector could do some amazing things to each other

Um, I'm thinking the currencies on the street would stay the same but the exchange mechanism pinned

So we bind the two currencies in order to create a monetary union on the base that both banks (FED and BOE) agree with policies

Idk

Reminds me of Red dwarf were the universal currency was dollarpounds

Red dwarf makes accurate prediction

I like this.

I dont think anyone but the extreme left doesnt like the idea of the UK and the US getting closer again

Closer but distinctly separate