It’s been some few weeks for the DUP, everything they believe in coming crashing down before them.
If scientific evidence is unearthed soon that shows the world is more than 6000 years old they could very well all collectively have a mental breakdown.
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They want the no deal though?
Most “ordinary people” on the mainland have a worse standard of living than most in Ireland, as the central swathe of England is pretty grim. I think all these thoughts of imperial greatness are just a deflection as people realise deep down that the vast majority of suburban England is the ugliest, drabbest, most grindingly depressing place in the first and second world.
I think ordinary people in England are used to it.
My lass, for instance, was playing netball on Sunday, and, whilst they lost 24-9, they all played really well, so I bought everyone a slushy after. One little girl came up and said thanks, but it was OK as the slushys were really expensive whereas, in fact, the whole lot cost the princely sum of nine quid. These would all be working families. Another lady was telling me that she could only afford to drive the car sometimes, as she could only afford a tenner at a time for petrol, and she found the rising petrol prices a real struggle. Life is just hard here anyway for people.
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They’re blessed to have Baron Didsbury ferry them around in the Range Rover
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Oh fuck off there’s a good chap.
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This is a lovely metaphor.
Simile
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Let me rephrase it then. I am always surprised at the palpable sense of wealth I get when back in ireland. The restaurants are expensive and busy. Dublin is drinking seven nights a week.
Despite this, I regularly read articles in papers and on fora, written by Irish residents, demanding more money of the EU, yet, Ireland surely has one of the highest standards of living on the planet. Wages there are almost double those in plenty of other western democracies, yet people like yourself are constantly on the one hand bragging about fine dining, whilst on the other, having a pop at others for having too much money. It’s odd.
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Whilst I agree on the whole, I think it is far more likely that you are going to notice people struggling where you actually live.
The netball teams in Tallaght are really struggling
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I don’t notice it the same when I’m home. It’s an observation, but point taken.
You’ve obviously never been to Tipp town.
Someone robbed the nets to buy heroin.
Meaning of course that the U.K. have inflicted this stupidity and diminished influence on themselves.
No chance the Tory party accepts it.
What the tory Party accepts may be irrelevant. It depends on how it pans out legally.
It will collapse the government so might not be much use.
It may do. That fat wanker from the 1922 comitay has just said he’d vote to collapse the govt rather than accept mays deal even. Parliamentary numbers suggest they want softer even than that. It’s either a GE, which the tories won’t fancy, an extension request which might or might not be granted, but would stir up anti Europe sentiment across the board if not, or a revoke a50 I’d imagine, unless Labour hold off until brexit is sorted. I’d imagine they won’t. If corbyn stood down for a moderate they’d be in for a generation
A GE won’t solve anything imo though I’d be more worried about a harder Tory manifesto position and them winning on that.
The harder the Tories go, the less likely it is that UKIP or Farage can re-enter the field as the party of pure Brexit. The Tories would likely lose their Scottish seats though regardless I think.
The other parties will split their vote. I can see a SNP/Liberal/Change Party alliance but there won’t be one for Labour.
There will of course though he a split in the Tories on whatever manifesto is chosen. It’s all impossible to predict.
The only way out of this is another vote.