You’re not supposed to take anything Tossy says at face value pal, it’s purely a wind up account. No one takes any of it seriously. Like @anon7035031, except that labane does take himself seriously.
I think the Irish Government will shit it before the EU do tbh.
Though I expect the UK to have moved before then.
yeah, we have seen movement over the last few days, they are breaking rank as it is
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You don’t have the wit to tell the difference mate.
We are teetering on the edge over here truth told.
Ireland and the UK need to stick together.
In the fullness of time, Ireland will regret siding with the cunts who fucked them up the ass repeatedly in 2008-2010, rather than helping their nearest and dearest neighbors navigate through this shit storm.
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What more could Ireland do? The brits will be allowed all the benefits of the Eu membership except elected representatives.
Maybe they were allowed to leave in their own terms but stay in the customs union, single market, have MEPs etc they’d be happy?
remove the backstop, no need for it
Right. So the UK want to take control of their borders. But they don’t want borders.
Sure you couldn’t make it up.
Spot on. There was a line in that Cumberbatch channel 4 thing that was very true. The head of remain campaign says the other sides campaign started 40 years ago.
The coverage of the last few days is only scare mongering. It will all work out in the end. A deal will be done
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disturbing images today of arch communist Len McCluskey entering No 10
Surely the whole EU concept of a hard border is nonsensical. Who is going to enforce it, as nobody in Ireland north or south wants it? Will the EU send in their planned army to enforce a border in Ireland that the British couldn’t enforce?
Out of curiosity what % of NI exports are to Ireland and what percentage of Ireland’s export are to NI?
Just chip the Irish people like you would a greyhound and be done with it - everyone wins
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An EU concept? I don’t think so- the dup see brexit and a hard border as their last throw of the dice, whatever they say to the contrary.
I can’t see anyone enforcing it. It would be impractical to have it and impractical not to have it, and then you’ve the GFA…it’s illegal to have it, but presumably it’ll be illegal not to have it.
How can you control immigration and trade without a border? Would you extend the common tavel area to all Eu residents?
It’s compilamacated, hence the backstop - a practical generous concession by both parties…but…
Trade? Hard to say. The dup shout a lot about the ‘uk’, or the mainland, or the Internal market being ni’s biggest trading partner. It’s probably around 60% before you try to define what the internal market is, and how much of it depends on further exports from other companie - agricultural produce sold for processing etc. statistics from the last two years suggest that ni exports to uk/roi have swung from 60/40 to 40/60.
I don’t think there are statistics as such for a lot of criss border trade- why would there be? But Guinness is canned in East Belfast, the majority of ni milk is processed in roi etc etc
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The only border built on the island will be built by the EU.
The sounds are there now. Varadakaar is sleepwalking to a border that will be built by the union he holds so dear.
A hard border is what the dup want as it ridicules the nonsense of a border poll and reduces the possibility of a united Ireland.
The whole thing about Ni turning into an economic wasteland is an unqualified assumption at this stage and somewhat down the dups priorty list id imagine
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Varadker came across like a young petulent teenager today talking about corporation tax in Davos.
Regards Brexit, this will be kicked down the road.
he’s not a leader, he has no gravitas or charisma, his voice sounds like something out of the muppets, he looks nervous all the time and unsure of himself, he’ll be walked all over
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