Comments by "No One" (@joermundgand) on "Owen Jones meets Mary Lou McDonald | 'Ireland will not be collateral damage for a Tory Brexit'" video.
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Aaron Martin. I better call my Icelandic friends and tell them that they should rejoin Denmark, their independence is impossible because they don't have the capability to stand on their own, I'll be contacting the Estonians and the Latvians also, they shouldn't be independent, better they rejoin Russia because they don't have the capability, people of Bahrain, you are too small, become a part of Saudi Arabia, Trinidad and Tobago, your independence is a sham, get back under British rule.
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I think they are right to be anxious, after independence the Irish State allowed the Roman Catholic Church to take over the entire educational system, which then caused the protestant supporters of independence to switch sides, this fact is among the things that aren't taugh in Irish schools. They are however taught in Danish schools.
I mean the argument presented here by this Sinn Fein moron is idiotic, the majority of the population in Ireland(the geographical entity) supports unification, in Northern Ireland the majority support British rule, using the argument of this Sinn Fein idiot could be aplied in any number of ways, the majority of Canadians and Americans support a single North American state, therefore Canada should become a part of the United States, the majority of all people in the Indian sub continent supports a unified Indian sub continent, therefore India, Bangladesh and Pakistan should be unified.
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Taint ABird. No the tide isn't on the side of just Irish nationalism, the tide is generally on the side of nationalism which will scuttle Mary Lou and others like her dreams of a united Ireland, let's imagine Scotland becomes independent, the Unionists are more closely tied to Scotland than they are to England, that alone would severely destroy any hopes that Republicans have of annexing Northern Ireland, the Unionists themselves will begin to advocate for independence, it is obvious at this point, that is why the politicians at Westminister are walking around in a trance like confused zombies, the writing is on the wall, EU is dying and Britain will cease to exist, which means that the different parts will become independent states, how are you going to cry Brits out when Britain no longer exists? Or are you going to cry Scots out, that would be interesting, leftwing independent Scotland villified by lunatic Republicans, this is but one scenario btw.
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thetroyzernator.
"I'm not dismissing the results of the plebiscite. I'm not disputing that the entirety of the UK voted for Brexit. I'm saying that it matters that some parts didn't. And that it should colour in the type of deal being negotiated."
No it should not, the rules were agreed on beforehand, the result is known, you and others like you didn't like the result and are inventing excuses circumvent democracy, that is undemocratic and makes you an enemy of democracy.
"Can you show me on the ballot paper where it gave the general public the option to leave or stay in the single market? Or the customs union? As I've explained already, Brexit is so complicated and people voted for so many different reasons. You had right wing free traders and left wing protectionists both voting for Brexit. Do you honestly think they cast their ballot with the same post Brexit vision? Of course not."
Leave or remain, yes or no, everybody was aware of what that meant, another attempt to delegimitize the plebiscite, undemocratic and authoritarian.
"Britain will leave the EU as it should. Unless there's a second referendum, which I think people are entitled to after seeing the deal available."
No, article 50 has been triggered, the decision has been made and the executive and the legislature must implement it. To not do so would be undemocratic and authortarian.
"I think a United Ireland joining the Commonwealth is a no brainer along with a broad constitutional settlement. Ireland having a monarch is simply a non starter though."
I think that's up to the people of Northern Ireland to decide, three options on the ballot, free and fair, those who wish to remain a part of the EU but who doesn't desire to be a part of the Republic can vote for an independent Northern Ireland.
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thetroyzernator.
"Where am I circumventing democracy? I am agreeing with you that Brexit should happen."
You desire another referendum on a flimsy excuse, how many referendums, one more, what if you lose again the polls suggest that the defeat for remain(which should have been called stay, but the usual trickery with words was employed, remain sounds benign, leave sounds scary, stay sounds like a command)seems even more likely in a second referendum, so you'll whine again and demand a third referendum, you don't like democracy at all do you.
"You're right, the option was to leave or remain the European Union. Staying the single market has nothing to do with this. It's not anti democratic to stay in the single market."
That would make Britain a vassal with no influence on laws passed with the consent of the governed, like Norway.
"It's not just up to the people of the North of Ireland actually, we have the right down south as well in a border poll. And any mention of adopted a monarchy unacceptable. It's fundamentally incompatible with being a Republic."
No you don't, you have the rights afforded to you by your parliament and as members of the franchise in the Republic, rights which you've bartered away and have chosen to become a tax haven for some of the most unsavory people on the planet.
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thetroyzernator. Incorrect, Iceland is not in the single market, they trade freely with other nations, they have bilateral trade deals wth the EU, they have the same arrangement with the US, Canada and Mexico who are the major nations in NAFTA.
You are a vassal, a vassal pays tribute, you do that, a vassal has no say in it's defence(you are not a NATO member and has to obey without having any influence on the policies of the alliance), Ireland, the penultimate vassal.
Why, they could just tell Ireland and the UK to go fuck themselves, it doesn't really matter, be a vassal of the EU or the UK, horrible options.
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thetroyzernator. Iceland is not in the single market, a bilateral trade agreement exists between the EU and Iceland, Iceland has many bilateral trade agreements, they have a bilateral trade agreement with Japan.
The peopl of Iceland have the least limitations on free of expression in the World, they used this to make their discontent about the financial services sector a public issue and succeded after the 2008 crash to imprison bankers for fraud, Embezzlement tc...
Meanwhile in Ireland all the bankers were bailed out and the politicians did nothing, instead they follow the guidelines from the EU and not a single banker has been imprisoned in Ireland, instead a single individual among a multitude was offered up as a sacrificial lamb and paid a fine of 100.000 €, he is awaiting trial, but he's not incarcerated, congratulations Ireland, the Cayman Isles of Europe.
David Drumm will never go to jail, he'll pay a fine and little Mary Lou and other puppets for multinational financial entities will laugh at the idiots of Ireland.
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intempify. Neither has the capacity to weakens us, they really don't at the moment, what you want can only end up meaning that an EU army has to invade nations in order to control markets for its currency, is that what you want.
Can I vote for the executive in the EU, no I cannot, that renders the parliament meaningless, please press start and retry.
Even worse is the fact that the commision is elected by executive fiat by the member nations from a list of candidates recommended by the commission, the populace has even less influence on who becomes the executive than they do in their nation states. Normally the executive is chosen directly by the populace or by proxy, the commision is chosen a proxy by a proxy. That means that individuals have even less influence on the exceutive, less democracy, more technocracy.
Religious leaders along with aristocrats are mostly pro EU, racists are a miniscule component of those who oppose it, nationalist merely describes somebody who supports the nation state, social democrats and conservatives are mostly nationalists, liberals and communists are mostly internationalists.
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