Replies are gonna come in order of your statements.
Yes, I misworded my end, I suppose. We make 9 billion. Great Britain supplies 18 billion. Ergo, there is a deficit of 9 billion.
The politicians here would fall apart without external glue and convention holding them together, it's that volatile. The politicians are almost infantile in their squabblings, and I have next to no respect for them.
What can be done is being done. It's in the best interests of Great Britain for it to be so. Though, Queens University specialises in poetry, that isn't quite what you mean. We specialise in CAD, in particular for the planes, and agriculture. CAD leads in to many other things, such as engineering, etc.
That highlighting of 18 billion was meant to go towards the point that we make nine billion. Great Britain loses 9 billion in this deal. Makes self reliance improbable, no?
We are already largely self governing, why should we care. We co-operate with Ireland on some policies, Great Britain on others.
I'm all for Northern Ireland taking a long look at itself. Also, don't call it the north-That's seen as a republican thing to say
It implies a lack of separation, i.e. the North of Ireland instead of Northern Ireland. Little difference, but the little things matter.
It's not as separate as it can get. As said earlier, the Republic has a say in policies, and beyond that are entitled to make suggestions. A split with everyone would see a break down of the Good Friday Agreement. And, if it did lead to further integration, it would be opposed twenty times more vehemently by Protestants, with agnostic wee me in the middle of them.
Really, there's little benefit and many downsides. We essentially govern ourselves. We have a relation with Ireland that, whilst being strained, is still there. We get financial, military and political backing. (not to mention the NHS)
A separate country? Why in blazes