It really shocks and surprises me that English people don't understand why the Irish border issue is important. It's not like them to be insular and utterly clueless about things that don't directly affect them at all
@Jim_Trinca I think a lot of them don't think Ireland is independent, and that it's merely like Scotland.
@Jim_Trinca the UK minister for brexit said exactly this about a year ago. Referred to the internal UK border with Ireland