Iām enjoying the mental contortions now from the headcases on Twitter in response to the story on the fully vaccinated healthcare worker who canāt get home from Qatar.
Iām willing to join them on this occasion and talk down evil big business. MHQ is late stage capitalism.
As I said I donāt think he did anything any other Taoiseach wouldnāt have. I actually think Kenny would have done a better job of it because he would have done the job at hand without without playing to the gallery to feed his giant ego.
Such waffle. 
Clearly you were one of the ones taken in by Varadkarās posturing.
I think he could weāll end up in Europe as the next head of the Commission. Heād be good at that job in fairness to him.
You havenāt offered any actual details on Varadkar and Kenny around Brexit. Just waffly āIām sure he wouldnāt have had as big of an egoā and ādidnāt do anything any other Taoiseach wouldnāt have doneā.
I see Malta are offering travellers incentives from the start of June.
Iām a little more hopeful that the changes that Coveney got in last night, changes elsewhere and the hard case stories will expedite the ending of this system.
In fairness, one of Kennyās last acts was getting Ireland on the negotiating platform as a key pillar. That was the most important part of Ireland being central to the negotiations.
That was hardly an achievement. It suited the EU to have us there
What? You offered that Varadkar did more than Kenny would have. Based on what? Kenny did not have the massive ego and need for attention Varadkar does. Varadkarās standing up to and sticking it to the Brits type comments at various stages played well to lots of people at home, do you think they helped the process? Of course not. Kenny would not have had that want in him, heād have done the job at hand. I donāt know what you think Varadkarās contribution to the brexit process was. There was the meeting with Boris that settled the protocol towards the end, perhaps he deserve credit for that, I put it down Borisās stupidity more so. But I see absolutely no reason to think Varadkar did any better than any other Taoiseach would have.
Incorrect, it was quite an achievement to have every country in Europe looking to Ireland for the nod on what to say all through the process.
How can anyone defend a cunt like Varadkar, he is lucky to still be in a job ffs.
Iād expect this case not to succeed. Courts will want to run a mile from undermining health advice. The out here will be that the lady came here of her own free will knowing that mhq was a requirement for entry to the country.
They did of course. Varadkar took the position from the outset that the Good Friday Agreement would be protected. In other words there were people in the North who were Irish and that needed to be acknowledged. Essentially Northern Ireland needed to be considered carefully and the Brits and Unionists couldnāt force this through. Kenny never showed any signs of that and seemed intent on pleasing everyone. He also made some random comments afterwards looking to blame the Labour Party in the UK for the upheaval.
We share a land border with the UK for fuck sake, A border which had resulted in a 30 year long conflict
There is a big differences in public utterances and what takes place in private. Kenny was more of a diplomat than Varadkar imho and the reason Kenny would not publically make the comments Varadkar made was to not add fuel to the fire.
Maybe Kenny may have done nothing as you suggest but my hunch is he would have got it done in a more concilitory fashion.
Weāll never know I suppose.
Iāve already said that Varadkar is a loose canon and has done some utterly bizarre things.
I am not sure how Brexit could be handled without being confrontational. You mention that Kenny could have done more diplomatically but I canāt see how that could be done without forgoing some nationalists rights,
For the first time in a long time a Taoiseach put his support with Nationalists in the North publicly and stood to his word. Even the likes of SF commended him on it.
It would have been handled better by being less confrontational.
Oh come on. āVaradkar took the positionā, as if he came up with it. I genuinely think itās strange you give him the credit for that, as if he came up with that position and led on it. Iāll clue you in, he did neither.
That is spot on.