Comments by "Taint ABird" (@taintabird23) on "Is Ireland Really the Wealthiest Country in the World?" video.

  1. What??
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  2. Ireland is one of the least unequal societies in the OECD.
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  3. Yours is the most sensible post on here.
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  4. This is turning into a whinge-fest. People who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing are in their element.
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  5. The cost of living crisis in the UK is caused by Brexit, according to the Bank of England.
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  6.  @maxdavis7722  It may come as a shock to you, but literally millions of people are living houses in Ireland. In rural Ireland, some of them are very large. There is only a housing crisis for people under 40. Go to England. There you also have a housing crisis, plus you can work for a lot less than in Ireland and have the pleasure of visiting food banks to augment your income. The poorest 20% of Irish people in Ireland are 63% better off than their counterparts in the UK, a country with more food banks than McDonalds restaurants. Many British posters here are determined that Ireland is poorer than the UK.
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  7.  @maxdavis7722  Ah Max, can you not use Google? Seriously. 'UK food banks over take McDonalds Outlets'. The Irish have more disposable income that the British. Do some research! You do know that multinationals employ hundreds of thousands of people in Ireland, both directly and indirectly in high end jobs (mostly?). Or do you think like many in the UK do that it is just the corporation tax that hoovered up by Ireland?
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  8. It is driving Brexiters mental.
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  9.  @maxdavis7722  In Ireland they were English, in England they were Irish. They were in fact what we call Anglo-Irish, and aside from Ireland being their birth place, they were essentially English by culture, custom, language and religious affiliation. It is true that food was imported into Ireland, but it remains the case that the British government, who managed to feed 3 million people cheaply and efficiently in the summer of 1846, simply declared the famine over that autumn and left the people to their fate.
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  10. Not all landlords were bad. There were many landlords were did their best for their tenants and were consequently ruined economically for doing so. Not all landlords were living in England - many lived in Ireland most of the time.
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  11.  @maxdavis7722  My source is a history book. An Irish history book, you won't find this in a British one. 'The closest I’ve found is just something saying the majority were Protestant, that doesn’t mean English, that doesn’t even mean British, at the time there were quite a few Irish Protestants' Many landlords were English and lived in England, never setting foot in Ireland. These absentee landlords were the worst and they evicted their tenants, which meant death by the roadside. Others were Irish by birth and lived in Ireland. But they were considered English by the the Irish because they were colonisers who inherited land taken by the Cromwellians, spoke a different language, practiced a different religion, customs, culture, had sole access to the law and the means to implement it.. Ireland was the only country in Europe to be ruled by a minority with whom the majority had nothing in common. What was Irish about the Anglo-Irish to the peasant minority?. This was colonisation. They weren't part of the 'Irish nation' of people. The English recognised no such Irish nation so, they considered Irish landlords to be Irish. Apparently, the Duke of Wellington understood this distinction. When he was accused of being Irish (he was born in Dublin) he stated 'being born in a stable does not make you a horse'. The UK government was married to the Laissez-Faire economic system, which prioritises the market forces of over people. Despite feeding 3 million Irish people successfully in 1846, cheaply and efficiently, they went back to the economic model they loved so much, declared the famine over and put all remaining Irish suffering down to 'Providence'. Under such circumstances, who should get in the way of God's will? There was a famine in Scotland at the same time, but it was dealt with differently. You have a lot of reading to do!
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  12. We should abolish government and put you in charge so.
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  13. What infrastructure is lacking?
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  14. That's not true Derek. The pay for their electricity they same as everybody else.
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  15.  @Finnbobjimbob  Life expectancy at birth is higher in Ireland than in the Britain and much higher than in Northern Ireland or the United States.
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  16. God, you're thick.
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  17. This is a rehash of the same old news. The following is also the case: According to a recent article in the FT, the poorest 20% in Ireland are 63% better off than the poorest 20% in the UK; Life expectancy is much higher in Ireland than in most countries, including the United States or Northern Ireland Personal savings in Ireland are much higher than in other EU countries and Ireland still has many more McDonalds restaurants than food banks, unlike across the Irish Sea. In 2021, Household Debt in Switzerland was 131% of GDP; it was 119% in Norway; 86% in the UK; 78% in the US; 56% in Germany but only 30% in Ireland. Economic inequality, high in Ireland 20 years ago, is now the lowest in the OECD.
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  18. Then you need to return to the UK and move back to Ireland in 5-10 years.
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