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Police and loyalists say paramilitary groups aren't involved. They say:

"There has been a spectacular collective failure to understand their anger over Brexit"

NI is *specifically and explicitly* about Brexit, as many predicted ... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/09/northern-ireland-police-say-paramilitaries-not-behind-recent-violence

So far we've had 74 police officers injured, and one statement of "concern" from Number 10. And now, after Philip, politics had been effectively turned off for a week.

Compare that with response to vigils about police allegedly murdering a woman. Tory outrage. New laws. Etc...

I genuinely fear where this is going. I mostly fear its not going away.

It's always been the case that Brexit would cause a border somewhere - land or sea - separating one NI community from the nation it thinks of as home. Brexit is impossible without that. Johnson simply lied.

The terrifying thing is: it took 5 years to sort these arrangements. Changing them won't take as long, but won't be overnight. And whatever replaces the current agreement will - must - include a border. Or a cancellation of Brexit.

There's no way out, and that scares me...

Change to a land border, and unionist rioters will be replaced by republican rioters.

Remove borders entirely, and you've basically cancelled Brexit. And then we'll have riots in England too.

Ignore it, and it grows. Stamp down on it, and it grows.

We are trapped.

My biggest fear: incompetence and mistrust.

The govt doesn't have the skill to deal with this. They're idiots.

And they can't stop violence with promises to resolve it soon, cos who believes Boris's promises any more? And what solution is there anyway?

We warned about this, but no: it was all Project Fear, just as the collapse of fishing and exports was. Just as the failure to find new trade deals comparable with EU. It was all Remoaner whining.

Except it wasn't. The truth remained the truth.

If only we'd remained too