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

  1. Women find me irresistible, I'll have you know.
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  2. What is your solution, John?
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  3. Why not? You have previously listened to a chartered accountant (Peter Bone), journalists (Bo Jo and Gove) and a hedge fund manager (Mogg) on the subject. Why not a Drama Critic and an award-winning journalist?
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  4. Susan Field, Ireland is not part of the United Kingdom, and therefore did not vote in your referendum. Why do you not know this?
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  5. Susan Field There is no such country as Southern Ireland. Why do you not know this! There is Ireland and there is Northern Ireland. Ireland did not vote in your referendum, Northern Ireland did.
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  6. Susan Field Yeah. Northern Ireland. Thank you.
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  7. Susan Field Yes, and that sovereign state is called Ireland.
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  8. Its a feeling he has nathan. Brexiters judge everything by their feelings and believing in things hard enough.
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  9. Good, you benefitting from the fluid and pluralistic concept of Irish nationalism enshrined in our written constitution: you can be Irish by birth or by heritage and still be part of the the Irish Nation.
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  10. The EU facilitates the concept of a multi-layered identity; you can Irish, British, German, Italian...with a shared EU citizenship and Identity.
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  11. On the contrary, the UK is being fundamentally dishonest. The argument of the hard Brexiters and the DUP that the UK does not want a border, so any responsibility for one lies with the EU is mendacious, and is regarded in Ireland as a transparent ploy to dodge blame. There will have to be a hard border somewhere because the UK is leaving the Customs Union, the fundamentals of international trade determine that. The DUP, who do not represent popular opinion in NI, will not tolerate a hard border in the Irish Sea. It is therefore impossible to maintain the status quo on the border. All of this is caused by Brexit. Brexit is British policy. Own it.
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  12.  @richardmoloney689  Wtf is 'Southern Eire'? And you with an Irish name, ffs.
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  13. He can't.
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  14. And all the promises that were made, about the EU needing the UK more than the UK needs the EU, the German car manufacturers coming to the the Uks rescue...you think your consent was informed??
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  15. Nope. He is a vocal critic of the EU in Ireland. Its just that Brexit is so demonstrably stupid being based on fiction and insecurity that he sounds like a Europhile. Its like Irish politicians: their British counterparts are so low grade and ignorant they make the Varadkar and Coveney look like International Statesmen. That is some achievement.
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  16. Yeah, but who wants to 'survive'? Before you joined the EEC, the UK was the economically the 'sick man of europe' and three years after you joined the IMF were called in to bail-out the UK. That's not fiction either. You were promised sunny uplands with Brexit, but now Mogg and Gove are talking about 'surviving' it, and that going to WTO is 'not the end of the world'. Brexit is product of, among other things, a sense of inequality in the UK. Brexit will not solve that - your poor will get poorer and your younger generation will blame you for it. The rich who proposed and promoted Brexit will be enriched, and will trouser the profits.
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  17. Listen Alan, we can deal with opinions if you wish, but I find it far more useful to deal in facts. It is a fact that in 1973 the UK joined the EEC with the label 'the sick man of Europe' The UK is the second highest contributor to the EU NOW - but was it always that way? For those of your barely surviving now, God help you after Brexit. Your vote, I should remind you, was advisory and not binding. Brexiter seem to forget this when they speak of Betrayal. In your mind you have have used the 'sovereignty' as your rallying call, but we all know that this is unlikely to have ever taken off had there being more equality in the UK. Many people voted against EU membership simply because the Westminster establishment was in favour of it. These days we are even told that Brexiters actually voted for NO DeAL when this promise was not even on offer before hand. I don't have any 'crystal balls', but I do have evidence and while some of it may prove to be wrong, most of it will not. You are screwed.
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  18. Soros is a bogey man of the right. Bob Geldof is an Irishman with Irish values who lives in the UK. He is not an elected member of Parliament and you have nothing to lose listening to him. No so with Mogg, Johnson et al.
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  19. How democratic of you. How long have you opposed free speech?
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  20. O'Toole is despised by Sinn Féin supporters because he calls them out on their narrow nationalism - he is no Irish 'bitter Irish nationalist' with a 'chip on his shoulder against the British'. There is no evidence that the British desire to leave the EU has only strengthened. If there was, Brexiters would welcome a second referendum with the confidence that they would strengthen their mandate. Indeed, there was no 'British desire to leave the EU' as both the Scots and the Northern Irish voted to remain. This is an English decision. There is no constitutional account for the fact that the Scots and Northern Irish voted to remain and for this there will be constitutional consequences down the line.
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  21. The Lisbon treat was before Brexit. Ireland is not more powerful than the UK, the UK has made itself weaker through Brexit.
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  22. I know...are they bluffing themselves or are they just that stupid?
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  23. Why are they afraid of telling the truth?
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  24. In Ireland we have really good English Language Schools. You should apply - you will be literate in no time.
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  25. It is the beginning of the end of the United Kingdom, not Britain - that will always be there.
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  26. He's Irish, he is not a traitor to Ireland.
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  27. If that is true, then your problem is in London not Brussels.
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  28. Bollox. The Irish can do it without transgressing any EU rules, why can the UK not?
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  29. Deport people who are abusing the welfare system. East Europeans who were living in Ireland and claiming for children in their home countries have been deported.
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  30. Australia style means No Deal. And it means No Trade Deal with the US.
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  31. Not necessarily. In an election parties publish their manifesto, and then chose to ignore it or discover their assumptions are wrong when they get elected. The Leave campaign published nothing, other than vague aspirations. It was difficult to pin Leave down on their magical thinking. Compare that to the Scottish Indy Ref where the SNP published a tome detailing what independence would look like, allowing people to decide if they agreed with it or not. In the Irish marriage equality referendum, the government were informed by a Citizens assembly as to what they wanted and the government published their legislation before the referendum - people knew what they were voting for. This is the type of informed decision of which O'Toole speaks.
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  32. Have you see him there?
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  33. @ Brex6645 Why does the referendum have to account for it? 1) The vote was advisory, your parliament is sovereign, your people are not. 2) The vote was not informed, a cornerstone of democracy: you were lied to - but Brexiters don't mind. It is quite simple, really.
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  34. What? Twice?
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  35. @ Ricardo Thomas '...it will never happen in this life or The next, the unionist are the majority in that part of the world, and they are British...' The nationalist population is set to become the majority, possibly by the time of the 2021 census. Middle class liberal unionists are open to the idea of a future withing a united Ireland, as they are facing economic ruin with Brexit and political insecurity due to an English nationalism that would throw them under a bus at the first opportunity. 'In fact the referendum was a UK vote, not a Scottish or Irish English or welch vote...' This is true, but of course against a backdrop of a diminishing British Demos, it is also the case that Brexit does not account for the the fact that Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain. In the last 20 years since the GFA and devolution, we can see what way the wind is blowing...the UK is slowly breaking up. Brexit will speed it up, as the current constitutional arrangement is no longer fit for purpose. '...how can you ignore the 17.4 million...' The vast majority of your 17.4 million are English. If you are Scottish or Irish, the English are irrelevant in terms of your own aspirations. For them, if the English want to leave the EU, then they should - but why should the Scots or the Irish leave also? Their nationalism share none of the English insecurities.
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  36. Really? You think having no plan, poor leadership and a misplaced sense of exceptionalism is not the cause of the debacle for the UK?
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  37. I'm still stuck on the American reference...
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  38. Umm...did he even mention Doctors?
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  39. Thanks. I'm no wiser as to what Michael Olson is on about though.
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  40. Why do you think his explanation is arbitrary? Why do you think people understood the entire situation when it is clear that not even those who promoted Brexit are clueless about the EU, the Good Friday Agreement and fundamentals of International Trade? O'Toole is and Irish and lives in Ireland. He must be a guest Prof at Princeton or something.
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  41. 'Well arbitrary is just negotiation format but he certainly seems to be explaining how we are not going to get Brexit any time soon if at all according to how things are at the moment...' Correct. He is unburdened by an notions of the UKs exceptionalism and has drilled down through the BS ('sovereignty'. 'taking back control', 'immigration' ' they need us more than we need them') and identifies Brexit as a distinctly English crisis of identity. '...but I am concerned that the entire situation will be so that we can expect that Brexit will not take place due to no commitment to it by our MP's' An accidental Brexit is on the cards, but in reality Brexit died at birth once it came into contact with reality in June 2016. If you leave with no deal you will be in an even weaker position when you come back to negotiate a deal with the EU, and in any negotiations you have with the rest of the world. Brexit is simply incompatible with the GFA. Everybody in Ireland was aware of this in May 2016, but nobody could say anything for fear of charges of interference in the internal politics of the UK. Leaving without a deal will need for it to happen before you will be able to see it. Your MPs are useless, deeply ignorant of the world, Ireland and the EU. Their posh accents seem to have seduced the many of their acolytes who seem assume these wasters deserve their adoration. The English love their elites, but not foreign ones it appears.
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  42. Thank you. I agree, Brexit is mistake and nobody will get anything good from it.
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  43.  @oldseadog3386  How is Ireland being fucked after Brexit working out?
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  44.  @oldseadog3386  Its not a bail out, France, Denmark and the Netherlands also received funding to help redirect trade away from the UK. In Ireland's case it will help the redevelopment of Rosslare Harbour with its increased ferry routes to France.
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  45. He keeps winning international awards for his journalism. Maybe you just don't like him because he holding up a mirror to your country?
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  46. He's highly critical of the Irish establishment - Ship of Fools is a fine example, but he is also a liberal on social issues, nationalism etc, which is in keeping with most people in Ireland. He holds a mirror up to right-wingers and traditional blood sacrifice republicans and they hate him for it. All of the awards he has won were awarded outside of Ireland - certainly the ones I'm aware of.
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  47. 'UK sees Ireland as making a huge mistake staying in the EU'. Of course it does. It just assumed Ireland would just leave with the UK.
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  48. sigh The Irish border issue is about goods, not about people...
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  49.  @drumrk9090902  I agree.
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  50. Speak for yourself. I'm Irish and while I don't always agree with his views, I think he has hit the nail on the head here.
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