The way the Irish are treating the UK is out of order, every weekend tens of thousands of football supporters travel to England and Scotland to support British teams, our closest friends in Europe. There’s a savage amount of trade that goes on, but paddy the simpleton is depending on the eu to back him. They’d want to have a bit of respect in Dublin, there’s a lot of sweaty palms in Europe right now. We saw that yesterday with the Polish. Muarizo the milkman or Hans the herder don’t give a shit about Ireland and will shaft him at the first opportunity. I can’t see the french or Germans flying in industrial amounts of flour, sugar and bogroll in a berlin style airlift operation
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Right ref trade we need them 100 pc
Around north Louth and south Armagh the border is seen as an economic lubricant .
Because it is
Why is trade with the UK any more important than trade with any other trading partner?
Are the citizens of the UK going to stop buying Irish goods if there is Brexit, hard, soft or somewhere in between?
ROI exports more to Belgium than it does to the UK, and exports 3X the amount to the US than the UK. Ireland is far more dependent on the US than the UK, especially if multinationals are taken into account, but as always the Irish are fascinated with the UK as if it were the 1930s.
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Where?
The country you live in mate.
I live in Ireland kid.
Because we trade quite a lot with them.
Yes, if there is WTO tarrifs in place.
Nailed it Horsey mate.
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You live in the Republic of Ireland, mate. It’s an important distinction to make in the context of a Brexit discussion.
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Where did you get your Belgium stat? Belgium is used as a supply chain hub into Europe from Ireland by the pharmas but I still think the UK as a whole would be bigger.
The US and Belgium would include a significant amount of services as well.
Real hard products the UK is king. It will wipe out certain agri businesses in particular although they have all been desperately pivoting to Europe in the last two years. Traditionally the proximity of the UK and the strength of sterling made it a lazy options for smaller companies who were comfortable with no business development and didn’t want to be going over speaking to German multiples.
The problem with the pivot though is that is that the goods often times go through the UK as it is the quickest passage. Our ports do not have the capacity to deal with this.
The UK also includes things moving over and back on the border.
It would be an absolute disaster.
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On a relative basis? The RoI exports more to Belgium than the UK.
Again, why do citizens of the UK choose to buy Irish products? Do you think it’s solely based on price?
If the argument is based on tariffs, there will be tariffs from all EU countries exporting to the UK, not just ROI.
How would that disadvantage ROI exports as everyone else in the EU is in the same boat?
There is no such country dumbass. I live in Ireland.
Sure where’ll they buy their stuff from so. It’s one thing cutting us off but they are cutting off every country around them as well.
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But we don’t really. Pfizer use Belgium as a production and distribution hub with Pfizer Ireland selling a lot of the goods there which are used all over the place.
Return on investment
An pure cluster fuck. The Supermarkets could potentially be half empty for long periods.
Companies like Unilever bring all their goods in via the UK for redistribution here.
Dunnes stores in particular would be badly hit as each individual store receives it’s delivery direct from the company involved.
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In fairness Glas, you know perfectly well what he means, and it is an easy term to use for the sake of debate.
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We’ll be sending care packages over to Tassy and Flatty before this is finished
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