Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "Northern Ireland Protocol: Will there be a trade war with Europe?" video.

  1. Now if only the British hadn’t aggressively meddled and ‘planted’ its own people in Ulster back in the day, then we would have none of this nonsense. Moral of story: keep your nose out of other people’s business.
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  2. @Mongo Planted by the British state.
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  3.  @martinrye712  I don’t understand what you are getting at? What has my name got to do with anything here?
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  4.  @EvsEntps  Well, that whole immigration debate needs to be instigated then. Personally, if any country is going to have mass immigration, then for me, this is a referendum issue and should be put to the people. After all, a large proportion of those who voted for Brexit did it in order to stem the flow of immigrants into the UK, telling us that this is a very live issue, and large enough to be put directly to the populace.
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  5. @Mongo I still don’t get what my name has to do with anything. Perhaps you can explain?🤔
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  6.  @martinrye712  I’m in favour of democracy, mate. If a majority on the island of Ireland want unification, so be it. I have no skin in this game, and no, I’m not Irish.
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  7.  @Then.72  Where did I insult the British? I stated facts: the British forcibly planted themselves in Ireland. That’s not insulting anyone; it’s called telling the truth, son.
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  8.  @EvsEntps  You’re clearly trying to trip me up. You’ll be there a while if that’s your game, mate. You seem sensitive to the idea that Ireland, if it hadn’t been meddled with aggressively by the British over hundreds of years, would clearly be a unified state by now. You seem to have an issue with this notion. You may have to get used to it, for I would think the odds are fairly good that Ireland will indeed unify in yours and my lifetimes, assuming you are under 40.
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  9.  Sean Mulcahy  Me? Absolutely not. What makes you think that?
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  10.  @EvsEntps  It’s not a meaningless platitude in my world, mate. If a majority in Northern Ireland want to be part of the Republic, and the Republic agree to this, then this will is carried. It’s really rather simple. I go back to my original point: if the British hadn’t forcibly meddled where they were not wanted then we’d have none of this.
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  11.  @EvsEntps  Your point about the British voting for Ireland to join the UK makes no sense. Ireland is a foreign country. Why would the British be voting on this? Makes no sense.
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  12.  @EvsEntps  Ok, if a majority in N Ireland want to join the Republic and the Republic agrees to this, then this kinda amounts to the same thing. Jeez. Mr Pedantic’s on the loose.
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  13.  @EvsEntps  You still haven’t answered the bizarre error you made mate: why would the British, in 2022, be voting to join with Ireland?
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  14.  @EvsEntps  I have made my position clear: majority will in NI carries the day. This, in practice, means a majority on the island of Ireland will be for unification, so technically I was correct. I should’ve said NI, not Ireland to that other guy, but the result is the same if the people of NI do indeed opt to unify.
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  15.  @EvsEntps  You may poke fun at the Irish Republicans for being so anti-English but to be fair, as far as I can see, the Irish have rather a lot to be angry about with the English historically. First they endured the Scottish Plantations over 100 years which involved the confiscation of Irish-owned land by the English Crown and the colonisation of land by British (mainly Scottish) Protestant settlers into a Catholic territory. Unsurprisingly, the Irish fought back. Two Desmond Rebellions (1569-73;1579-83) to fight against the extension of English governance over the province. Battle of Clontibret (1595) fought against the British. Ditto Battle of the Yellow Ford (1598). The Nine Years’ War (1593-1603) fought English rule in Ireland. The 1641 Rebellion occurred when Irish Catholics were being threatened by the expansion of the anti-Catholic English Parliament and Scottish Planters and they rebelled against English and Protestant domination. The 1798 Irish Rebellion was a major uprising against British rule in Ireland. The Irish wanted an end to anti-Catholic discrimination, greater Irish self-governance and to roll back the Plantations. The 1803 Rebellion of Irish Republicans was against, you’ve guessed it, British rule in Ireland. I think you can spot a theme here. The famous 1916 Easter Rising had the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic, with the hope of finally ending British colonial rule. And so on, right up to the 1960s when the Civil Rights movement challenged the inequalities and discrimination against ethnic Irish Catholics perpetrated by the Ulster Protestant community. So, with this snapshot of Irish history, I return to my OP that began this whole thread: if the British had kept their nose out of other people’s business, then none of this would have obtained.
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  16.  @martinrye712  If it’s not a majority, then obviously it’s not carried. That’s called ‘democracy’.
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  17.  @Then.72  I said that the British aggressively planted themselves in Ireland without the consent of the colonised Irish. Fact. Deal with it.
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  18.  @Then.72  Wtf are you on about now, son, you babbling fool?
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  19.  @Then.72  The Irish were fighting back against a colonialism they didn’t ask for, you twit.
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