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Should British Government break the G.F agreement?

On 31 Aug 2018 at 1:00am Brexit first Irish last wrote:

According to this remoaner in one of there on line magazines"The Good Friday Agreement, binds the actions of the Government of the United Kingdom (a de-facto addition to an unwritten constitution).
Any attempts to change the relationship of Northern Ireland and Ireland, by a third party (including the EU & British Government), shall be deemed illegitimate, and that only the people of the island of Ireland alone by agreement between the "two parts, respectively and without external impediment" can change this status.
A hard Brexit changes this status by a third party arrangement without the exclusive decision of the island of Ireland; ergo a hard Brexit is illegal."
Does this really matter .We voted out,we are a sovreign protestant nation Northern Irlande belongs to us as a right ,why should the catholic Irish get in our way?

On 31 Aug 2018 at 2:18am Brit wrote:

3/10
Not terrible, but still transparent. The use of there instead of their is the staple building block in the common trolls tool kit. It is covered in the trollery foundation introduction course and not even worthy of gcse trolling, let alone advanced level trolling techniques.
Must try harder.

On 31 Aug 2018 at 5:45am Ian Parsley wrote:

NEVER x 3

On 31 Aug 2018 at 8:34am Casual Observor wrote:

Do you even understand the implications of the question you're asking?

On 31 Aug 2018 at 9:06am Implications wrote:

of spelling Observer are more important

On 31 Aug 2018 at 2:41pm Casual Observor wrote:

Except that �observor� is part of my last name, but you don�t know that so don�t understand the play on words. Unless you�re suggesting I�m spelling my name wrong?

On 31 Aug 2018 at 4:57pm Annette Curtin-Twitcher wrote:

The GFA is an international treaty. If the government breaches it, it would also be breaching the Vienna Convention. There are, presumably, some legal remedies that can be imposed but I suspect that would take a few lifetimes to grind through the UN/international court/whatever.
It would certainly be very damaging to the UK's international reputation.
More worrying is the risk of more bloodshed, on both sides of the water. Anyone who lived in London in the 1970s and 1980s will remember what a dreadful time that was and how frightened people were.
I think the GFA was the only good thing the Tories achieved in the latter part of the 20th century, it would be madness to throw it away. The practicalities are challenging too.
I have a friend whose family farm in Donegal. Their vet is on the UK side of the border. The milk tanker that calls at their farm crosses the border 30 times a day. There are farms that straddle the border, children who cross the border to go to school, people whose nearest shop is across the border.
There's one section where no-one actually knows where the border is. There's a lake on the border, and the location of the border there was never defined.

On 31 Aug 2018 at 6:35pm Magham wrote:

The Irish need to be put in their proper place,at the bottom of the pile.

On 1 Sep 2018 at 8:29am Mark wrote:

Annette, wasn't the GFA almost entirely the product of negotiations between the Blair and Ahern governments? That's how I remember it. Not a great deal of involvement of rubbish Tories in that process. Teresa May's dancing stands as greatest Tory achievement of recent years, I feel.