Reaction.life summarises the Ireland problem well in this piece. It is hard to imagine the entire British economy and the fair chunk of intra EU trade is being held up by a few Irish who hold the government majority of Northern Ireland but that is the reality and it cannot be allowed to continue.

Even Joe Biden spent time on St Patricks day attempting to placate them but to no avail.

Sunak is doing a great job of knocking off thespian points that arose during and after Brexit and there is no more left to do with the Irish. Force them into an election.

As the DUP says No, Sunak gets ready to put them out of our misery

The Windsor Framework is a legally-binding document. Not only that, it is the key that unlocks Britain’s future relationship with the EU. The prime minister will not give it up. Even if the European Research Group – which increasingly resembles a hernia within the body politic of the Tory Party – decides to support the DUP, the deal will go ahead exactly as set out last month between Sunak and Ursula von der Leyen, the Commission president.

At that point, anything could happen, and it probably will. Sinn Fein, for one, will be praying beneath its breath for continuing chaos, creating the opportunity for London and Dublin to put Stormont out of its misery.  But failing such an intervention, it will be up to Sunak, supported by Keir Starmer, in alliance with with Von der Leyen, Biden and the Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar, relentlessly to turn the screw. Only when Donaldson, Wilson and Paisley feel the garrotte tightening against their necks is there any chance that they will see sense and, as unionists, vote for their own long-term survival.