Comments by "Taint ABird" (@taintabird23) on "Bloomberg Television" channel.

  1. No Rishi, it is Brexit that is causing the harm. The NIP is the solution.
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  2. ;Brexit is about the democratic right of national self-determination by public ballot.' That's bollox. There is no constitutional account for the fact that the Scots and Northern Irish voted to remain, and so it is really the imposition of the will of the English on the rest of the UK in a state with a declining British Demos. 'If the UK wants to leave the EU it is no-one else's business but the UK electorate' Wow! Once again, its the English electorate that is taking the UK out of the EU. The GFA means that it is Ireland's business as a co-guarantor of the GFA...not that you will know anything about that. It is also the business of the rest of the member states who are effected by your chaotic unicorn laden folly. 'If you wish to continue with a decade of stagnant wages and austerity for the poor then the EU is the ideal place to be economically trapped. The argument is really about democracy and not economics.' I would take my chances with the EU. I you wish end stagnant wages in the UK and austerity for the poor, you certainly would not chose Brexit which will result in less bang for your buck. You trust the Tories with your workers rights? Health system? You must be out of your mind...
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  3. Because all EU countries that are affected by Brexit are entitled to EU funding to provide infrastructure to develop their economies. In the case of Ireland, France, Netherlands and Denmark for example, money is available to help redirect exports away from the UK, whether it is in terms of port infrastructure or accessing new markets. That's how the EU works - it supports its members.
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  4. Yes, Brexit is about the English and their insecurities with their place in the world.
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  5.  @gunnargundersen3787  The relationship worsened since the UK voted to leave the EU without a plan! Brexiters claimed they held all the cards and did not need one. That turned out not to be the case. Ireland was not about to fulfill its role as supplicant to the ambitions of insecure English people. Ireland left the UK to go its own way, and will not be the collateral damage of Brexit.
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  6. Ireland has been a net contributor to the EU for a number of years - you don't subsidise Ireland. The UKs contribution can be EASILY replaced: the equivalent of asking 450 million EU citizens to cough up the price of a cup of coffee. How is Ireland a non-productive island? It exports everything it produces...
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  7. Ireland is indeed thinking for itself - and the EU has been its mouthpiece....
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  8. Its a failure of British politics.
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  9.  @sirnigeloffarage9255  No, we will wait until it suits us - in the meantime, keep forking out the cash for the place. Good lad.
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  10. @Ian Norris Yes, it wins. Like it came top of the league in Coronavirus deaths and won the competition for the steepest economic decline in Europe this year. Its just win, win, win....
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  11. The EU stands behind Ireland because it is a member of the EU and the UK is leaving it. The UK is very disappointed that the EU does not hold Ireland in the same contempt Brexit Britain holds Ireland...a UK miscalculation.
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  12.  @Buckets1000  Whatever way you stack it, that is indeed the result you get. The UK is is done.
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  13. @ Kieran Greene If Ireland was to be united you wouldn't want to approach it all triumphalist and strategy-free as the UK has approached Brexit. There would have be a longish run-in to a timetabled, negotiated unification, and the Republic would have to sacrifice some sacred cows along the way for this new Ireland (new flag, anthem?). Demographics suggest it will happen over the next two or three decades, one way or the other. What Ireland does not need is this Brexit nonsense breaking up the UK in some way and forcing the situation before anyone wants it, that's for sure.
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  14. Nobody wants to rule the UK, but the EU will not agree UK demands that undermine the EU. It is not the EUs fault that the UK never considered this reality or failed to read the Withdrawal Agreement. The UK has become a ridiculous, mickey mouse country.
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  15. The UK. The trade surplus is thanks to EU trade deals. Do you have any trade negotiators yet?
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  16. @ coolsdon Its in all the newspapers: https://www.yahoo.com/news/brexit-tory-mp-john-redwood-170008455.html
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  17. That man's pants is SO on fire.
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  18.  @oldseadog3386  No. Ireland paid into the EU to fund various schemes such as this. Ireland is getting its own money back.
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  19. Sorry Ruairi, the Irish people are too sophisticated for the simplistic raison d'ê·tre of the hard right.
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  20. That's interesting. The UK signs the Withdrawal Agreement without reading it, and then admits to the intention of breaking international law in order to get around what it did not read, and yet the EU 'blundered incredibly'? The UKs other incredible blunder was the assumption that Ireland would just trot out of the EU behind it, as your comment alludes to. If there is a hard border in Ireland, Brexiters are the only people who will be blaming the EU for it.
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  21. @ coolsdon Indeed. When ideology meets reality, reality wins every time. Get used to it.
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  22. Disagreed with by some, but discredited by none.
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  23.  @oldseadog3386 Right, so you're bullshitting then....
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  24. The reason Ireland is partitioned today is because the UK always supported the minority.
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  25. You gave us 7 billion. It was the smallest contribution to the bail out, but it has the highest interest rate. Ireland's debt to gdp ratio was 68.9% at the end of 2018. UKs debt to gdp ratio was 84.7% at the end of 2018. It is difficult to see by what standard you think the UK is trying to help Ireland. As 92% of Irish people support EU membership it is delusional to think that the UK cares more for the Irish people than its current government. 79% of Irish people are satisfied with Varadkar's stance, while 21% think he's soft on the British government.
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  26.  @sirnigeloffarage9255  No chance later on? Sure the 'precious union' is finished! The only thing keeping it together is a refusal by the English to stand on their own two feet!
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  27. 49 of them rolled over EU deals while one is deal with the EU that you are already regretting. Well, not you personally, of course, but people British people who trade in the EU.
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  28. @ coolsdon 'Without subsidies from Europe your country would be further down the toilet than it already is.' Subsidies support the whole European farming sector. So what? 'Remember it was the British banks who had to step in and bail out your banks ten years ago.' Well that would be remembering a fabrication. It was the UK government who provided about 10% of the bail out, though the Britons like yourself have been taking credit for it ever since. 'Record numbers of young Irish people are leaving Ireland for jobs overseas,like I said,you'd think they'd had the decency to stay and support their nation rather than coming to the U.K.' Yes, Irish people emigrate to find work when the economy crashes, its part of our culture now. In the UK, when the economy crashes people seem to stay at home and moan about the EU. The Irish economy has recovered and with unemployment at a little over 6%, many are returning with broader minds and new skills. 'Don't worry about the U.K dear,we have the second largest economy in Europe and are about to leave the E.U and save ourselves a bundle by no longer having to prop-up lame economies like Eire...' Ireland has been a net-contributor to the EU for several years now. Your country has a higher debt to GDP ratio than Ireland, a lower GDP per capita and a slower growing economy.
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  29. Well, any residual psychological dependency on the UK will end after Brexit. Ireland is now a net-contributor to the EU. The principle of raising economies of EU members to match stronger members is a core one in the EU, and one of the reasons why countries join it. Only the UK has make a pigs ear of it. The Irish like the EU because it has provided an environment where the Irish can achieve their potential and where Irish cultural identity is distinct, strong an confident.
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  30. Bob Head could be American. Its hard to tell the English from the Americans these days. Gullible, thick, and misinformed.
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  31. Ireland has not had 60% of its trade with the UK for the last 40 years.
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  32. @ Sample Sample 'What happens if UK makes Northern Ireland a tax haven like Singapore post-brexit? All US IT majors would shit their base to UK. Wait and see - don't wake a sleeping giant.' Nothing. The UK will be outside the EU, taking NI with it against the will of its inhabitants. Any company seeking to set up a HQ inside the EU's Customs Union and Single Market will come to south of the border. You cannot set up your EU HQ outside the EU.
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  33. @1 chish 'Here is a little fact for you to consider especially given your rather ignorant comment about 'the English don't care about the Union either with Scotland or Northern Ireland". Really? If we didn't care why do we fund the Barnett Formula that is far more generous to the Irish and Scots than to us English?' The Membership of the Tory party have been polled and place a higher value on obtaining Brexit than on maintaining the Union. Scotland will make it outside of the United Kingdom, as it is likely to be fast-tracked into the EU. If Northern Ireland leaves the UK it will be unified with the Republic and will automatically return to the EU. There are economic models which demonstrate how this would be economically viable.
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  34. 1 chish 'Scotland will never make it on its own. England is its biggest export market and if it joined the EU it would raise additional currency (it would have to take the Euro), fiscal policy issues decided in Frankfurt by the German run ECB and have to create a border that doesn't exist now.' This is standard rhetoric from former imperialists. It was used to keep the Irish within the UK, but they will be commemorating a century of independence from the UK, currently have a higher GDP per ratio than the UK, a seat at the UN and is a member of the EU and is comfortable with its place in the world. Scotland can do the same. The Irish used to depend on the UK for 90% of its exports. Scotland, like Ireland will be able diversify its markets once it joins the EU. Today Ireland exports between 11-13% of its goods to the UK, roughly half of what it exports to the United States. You see, the Scots will not be trying to 'make it on its own' as you claim, but will be seeking to develop economically by pooling its sovereignty with other EU members and availing of the CU and SM. It is the UK that is trying to 'make it on its own'. It will not be smooth sailing. While the Scots are likely to be fast-tracked into the EU because they already meet many of the requirements due to UK membership, their economy will need to readjust. This will result in short-term pain.
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  35. 1 chish 'As for NI joining Eire? It will never happen as the Irish can't afford the cost of the 6 counties (as represented by Barnett and its deficit) and they do not want their sectarian politics either.' One of the issues about Brexit that the Irish and the EU understand but , remarkably, the English don't, is that Brexit raises the issue of Irish unity before true reconciliation has been achieved in NI. With Irish nationalists about to become the majority in NI, many of them who were comfortable within the UK are now angry at the attitude of those on the other island towards them. Their rights as Irish citizens in NI are undermined by Brexit. They look to the Republic as an open minded, liberal democracy while the UK has become a introverted, ignorant and insular place. Its like the roles have been reversed. In the event of a united Ireland, many of the costs of running the place will be removed. EU and Irish government support will be used to develop the NI economy and to get it up to speed with its more dynamic southern counterpart. If the UK was to wean NI off its bloc grant over a period of say 10 or 15 years, then unity is viable. Brexiters would love to be shot of the place, so who knows? Of course sectarianism is a problem. But this is likely to diminish once the UK breaks up, in any case, and of course any future united Ireland must be agreed - the GFA guarantees that.
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  36. 1chish Oh yes, I am indeed on a parallel planet to you, absolutely, I agree. I'm on planet reality, and you are on planet delusion. The government has no coherent policy on Brexit. The Tory Party, the Labour party are both divided, Brexit is not what the Scots voted for - the entire country is divided on Brexit. In NI, the DUP keep the Tories in power on a pro-Brexit agenda, even though NI voted to remain, with an even larger majority supporting the backstop. There IS no policy, there WAS no plan - the Tories are making it up as they go along. Presently, the Tories are electing a new Prime Minister, choosing between a liar, a bluff and a cad or a dunce. The liar, bluffer and cad will win because his bluster is more like how English Tories see themselves. Of course the Tory Party is represented in every region of the UK, but its membership is concentrated in certain regions and come from a particular demographic and economic background. Do you feel that is representative? Probably, because of course Brexiters have no problem with elites as long as they are not European. Nice try, but your point is obfuscation and does not address the electorate within the Tory Party. There was NOTHING subtle about my changing the word support to charity - it was DELIBERATE. English Tories who are prepared to throw the UK under a bus to get the holy grail of Brexit will of course view any 'support' as 'charity'...with those receiving it not 'appreciating' the English and all they do for them. I would advise you to steer clear of my deprivation comment also, as every economist and business leader worth his or her salt is predicting economic decline for the UK post Brexit. Of course, the poorest will suffer most... Such is Brexit.
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  37. Nope, people were exploited and deliberately misinformed.
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  38. I hope the UK can work out a way of keeping the UK's economy stable when it exits. The humiliation of having to return to the EU, cap in hand, seeking a deal is even embarrassing for me, a non-Brit.
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  39. You can't even spell propaganda. And you don't know the difference between propaganda and critical analysis. You have no idea how ridiculous Brexit looks from outside the bubble you are in.
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  40. If you 'want your country back', you need to look closer to home, to your own elites, rather than to Brussells. You need to look at the toffs promoting Brexit...
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  41. Brexiters don't want to be governed by their own country - they want their own way. If Brexiters cared about being 'governed by their own people', or about laws being made by their own courts, why would they call politicians and judges TRAITORS when they didn't get decisions they wanted? Brexit has nothing to do with self-determination. Indeed, the Brexit Britain is currently incapable of self-rule at the present time. The Scots voted to remain. How does Brexit account that? Where is the acknowledgement that 'people think people being governed by their own' is better? Northern Ireland is governed in the context of the GFA, which states that there can be not changes in the NI situation without the CONSENT of the people of NI. 56% voted to remain - where is the account for 'people being governed by their own' in this situation? Consent is what the people of NI voted for in a BINDING referendum based on a PLAN which became an International Treaty bound by international law. Your problems are all closer to home than Brussels, and for that reason there is a real danger that the English are facing a self-inflicted humiliation on the international stage. Get back to me when you have something coherent to say.
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  42.  @oldseadog3386  Yes, but the benefits outweigh the costs unless you live in the UK.
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  43.  @oldseadog3386  Any sensible person would be hoping for a deal.
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  44. The UK cannot dump NI, the GFA prevents it. It protects unionists within the Union.
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  45. @ Spacetrucker U Ireland maintains an independent foreign policy and is unaligned militarily. This because we value our sovereignty and has nothing to do with Marxism. It has its origins in a conservative Ireland, that was anti-communist, anti-British, anti-imperialist and anti-materialism. It is one of the only remaining legacies of that period of the early Irish state that remains intact. Ireland is now a far more outward looking, progressive and open country than the United States and the United Kingdom. It has a stronger democracy and a freer press than both. Despite all this, Ireland has strong relationships with both the UK and the US.
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  46. 'Dublin isn’t big enough to become like London. There is nowhere near enough office space for a start. And that goes for Frankfurt and Amsterdam too' Too late. They've already set up in Dublin (and Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris etc).
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  47.  @sirnigeloffarage9255  Admit the English are a nation, stand on you own two feet as a people and become independent!.
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  48. Ireland needs the EU for trade even more that it needs the UK. Sort out the border issue, and you have Ireland in your corner to a good trade deal.
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  49. The flip side of the coin is that your imports costs are increasing, leading to inflation - due to that weak sterling. If you think its bad now, and people in the UK have started to feel the pinch already, wait until you crash out without a deal. You economy will suffer a shock. Food imports, upon which you depend, will soar in price and without a trade deal with anyone there is nothing you can do about it.
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  50. You seem to be predicting the future with confidence LMAO! Does the UK have a WTO schedule yet? Does the UK have any trade negotiators yet?
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