The DUP and Loyalists have made their bed; let them lie in it.

The DUP and Loyalists/Unionists got what they wanted but cannot accept the consequences and want back all the advantages of being in the EU without actually being in!

For decades, and even more so since the 'Yes' for Brexit, the EU has been incredibly patient, long-suffering, forbearing, good-natured, diplomatic and polite with us awkward, trouble-makers that is the UK. The EU has leant over backwards to be understanding and helpful. Even to the extent of agreeing to a no land border. Even then the UK is not satisfied. The DUP wanted out of EU, they got what they wanted when NI voted to stay in and still they are not satisfied! The EU should not make any more concessions to these embarrassing Conservatives and Unionists. They are the unreasonable ones who now need to knuckle down and accept their folly. Or, would they prefer a land border?

THE BACKSTOP!

The BBC Radio 4 definition on 12.3.19: "The Backstop is the mechanism designed to fulfil the pledge made by the UK and the EU that the Irish border will remain open after Britain leaves.  It will kick in if a trade agreement with Brussels was not reached at the end of the post Brexit transition period.  It is contentious because it involves, in part, Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK temporarily remaining in a customs union with the EU."

Journalists, like Jeremy Vine, have described it as ensuring a "no wall between the ROI and NI.  ... there must be no physical border.  It leaves NI closer to the EU and the ROI than the UK."