Comments by "Taint ABird" (@taintabird23) on "Brexit: Northern Ireland Protocol is not going to work says Arlene Foster" video.
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@timhull8664 'The Irish fought the British like mad for independence, but now let the EU jackboot stomp all over them.'
A false equivalence. There was no article 50 for Ireland to trigger to leave the UK and a long history of violent oppression towards Irish nationalism. In the EU, Ireland has had the opposite experience: an equal voice, respect for our culture and a strengthening of national identity and indeed Ireland is shaping the future of the EU, along with the other members. Irish people voted for membership of the EEC in September 1972, it was our free decision, and we voted for every treaty change thereafter. Brexiters thought nothing of stomping all over Ireland with their departure from the EU, and in fact it would appear seem to have expected Ireland to simply trot out of the bloc with them. Incredible.
Ireland sells less to the UK than it buys from it. Ireland sells more to the EU - four times more - than it sells to the UK. Why would Ireland leave the EU under those circumstances? Given the way English nationalist Tories behave towards the Scots and the Ulster Unionists, why would Ireland wish to be treated in that way? Sajid Javid referred to Ireland as 'the tail wagging the dog' while your gutter press referred to Ireland as a 'pipsqueak nation'. The other EU member states do not treat the Irish with such disrespect and utter contempt.
In the summer of 2016 Ireland went on the diplomatic offensive in the EU to get support from the member states to have the border issue placed front and centre of the negotiations between the Commission and the UK - that worked. In 2017, when the Irish government went to Washington for St Patrick's Day, they used the opportunity to get support from Irish-America in relation to dealing with the border issue - it worked. Ireland got one of its former heads of the Irish Central Bank into the most important position with the ECB, while Ireland beat the German nominee to the head of the EU Group of Eurozone finance ministers. Indeed, Ireland won a seat on the UN Security Council beating the Canada and Norway - strong competition - in the vote. Ireland won the case against the EU Commission in relation to Apple's tax affairs in Ireland.
Ireland is no pushover.
The only people 'dictating' to the Irish are Brexiters, who are unaware of their impotence. While Brexiters view Ireland as a backwater still dependent on UK, but one that does not 'know its place', we Irish have moved on and see our place in the world quite differently to how the English do.
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