Comments by "Taint ABird" (@taintabird23) on "Fox Business" channel.

  1. Could Fox not find an Irish person to ask these questions to?
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  2. He obviously has an Irish grandparent, and he is entitled to claim his citizenship.
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  3. The only people talking about the Irish leaving the EU are frustrated Brexiters.
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  4. David, are you suggesting the UK gives a shit about Ireland?. We already know it doesn't. The UK is not 'Ireland's biggest customer', the United States is; furthermore, Ireland's exports to the EU are three time larger than its exports to the UK. It is however, a vital market for the bulk of Irish agricultural produce. You do know that the UK exports more to Ireland than vice versa? You do know that Ireland is worth more to the UK economy than all of the exports to Brazil, Russia, India and China combined, by a factor of two? AND its right on you doorstep, and as gravity applies in economics, its value is worth more to the UK than the same exports going to another continent. By leaving the Single Market, and Customs Union, you will be putting a barrier to your exports to Ireland. Ireland wishes to remain in the EU - in fact, support for EU membership now stands and 92%, UP 4% since last year. Brexit is making Irish membership of the EU more popular! Best of luck!
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  5. But the POTUS is all about making AMERICA Great Again...
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  6. Brexit means vote to leave and then go to the EU and tell them what you want because they need the UK more than the UK needs the EU. You were told that it meant you can have your cake and eat it. Remember? Well, that turned out to be a clusterfuck. You are victims of your own stupidity, hubris and exceptionalism - not EU bullying.
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  7. Typical Brexiter hysteria and ignorance. No country has all its laws dictated from the EU; the purpose of the EU is to pool trade and trading power, which is to the enormous advantage of small countries; only external borders are controlled by the EU in terms of customs and trade. I thought the Brexiters were complaining the that the EU had no border controls and the UK wanted to 'take back control' of its own borders? How can the EU both control and not control the borders of the EU?
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  8. He would have had another brandy and demand that Germany be drenched in poison gas.
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  9. Huh?
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  10. The Irish are already paying into the EU, David. Unlike the British, the Irish have no difficulty paying more. The English appear to be unique in the EU in terms of their sheer meanness - I wouldn't be surprised if Brexiters peel oranges in their pockets and eat their meals out of a drawer.
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  11. Irish people are benefitting from this, it simply does not insulate you from the cost of living crisis. Ireland benefits from new schools, roads and other infrastructure. There is homelessness in Ireland, in part, for political reasons, and in part for economic reasons.
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  12. How do you know? There was no agreed future outside 'leaving the EU' - it meant different things to different people. According to Eurosceptics, the EU/EEC has been collapsing for 40 years.
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  13. You will be doing away with the House of Lords so?
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  14. And the UK? Want to be shot it too?
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  15. The EU is ready to dump the UK. This clown Nile Gardiner is on a different planet.
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  16. Oh please, the UK is not taken seriously 'in the world' right now, its a laughing stock. You never voted for WTO, you voted for a 'cake and eat it' deal with the EU based on the fiction that the EU needed tht UK more than the UK needed the EU.
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  17. What atrum pontifex said.
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  18. Don't hold your breath...
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  19. The UK is dominated by low-grade politicians and weak leadership at the present time.
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  20. Not a fan of democracy? Fuckwits providing simplistic solutions to complex problems are the source of the problem.
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  21. Binary. Great. So what's the plan?
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  22. That's not the plan. That's the aspiration. What's the plan to deliver on the aspiration?
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  23. I only lost because i wanted the UK out of the EU - and it never happened. The UK is now a vassal of countries such as Ireland. Ireland!! I can NEVER get over that.
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  24. Totally agree.
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  25. Yes, I know. Not only will not get cake, but there is a serious doubt that you actually ever leave.
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  26. And still my point stands.
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  27. Some of the UK government negotiators are almost certainly posting them.
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  28. 'I’m sure they don’t waste their time with internet comments as they realise what a pointless platform for low intelligence people and their uninformed opinions it is. All it has done is teach people to cease thinking for themselves and to click on anything as long as it’s different from the status quo, like my kids do when they are having a tantrum. I gave up on western intelligence a while ago.' I think you're American, given your complete lack of any sense of irony.
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  29. Yes, lets have no more General Elections while we are at it. The people have spoken.
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  30. You are my hobby.
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  31. There are 1700 US companies in Ireland taking advantage of the low corporation tax rate and the highly educated workforce, which has access to the EU Single Market. None of them would agree with your claim that Ireland has nothing else to offer. This is why you are the clown, Philip.
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