This time last year,I was visiting a friend in Lorraine. Whilst there, one of his friends who works at the EU in Strasbourg who commutes daily (using one of those electronic tags provided free by the EU), came into the local bar we were in. On finding out I was 'English' (a) tried out his english and (b) started into me about Brexit !
We eventually got around to N.I. and, 'The Border' ! He started going on about how we (the English) were going to set back North/South relations decades by creating a 'hard border'...again,etc !
I gave him another 5 minutes of slagging off the UK, then politely asked if he had ever been to the island of Ireland ? I then informed him that any hard border would be down to the EU's intransigence and, we (the UK) couldn't put a hard border back in place because, there had never been one in the first place.
This statement piqued a bit of interest from other members in the bar who had been listening to his diatribe, one of whom (through my friend) asked how so? I then informed them about the agreement between Ireland and the rest of the UK,signed in 1923 which allowed uninterupted travel between the 2 countries, Mr 'EU' basically called me a demented liar so, being a visitor I asked one of the people with a 'smartphone' to google it.
Lo and behold...there it was, with the phone being thrust under his nose, he quickly departed the bar, followed by some heckling. The majority of people in the area are very anti-EU anyway and, as my friend explained... this would keep the boring b*****d out of the bar for a few weeks, I then spent about an hour answering questions on the Common Travel Area agreement.
It's amazing the amount of misinformation,deliberately put about by the EU minions,with some quite genuinely believing the crap !
