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

  1. Thank you for your support.
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  2. I'm in a same sex marriage. My wife and I have been having the same sex for years.  I don't know what all the fuss is about.
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  3. I must say I am very impressed at the sudden interest in Ireland, considering if never got a mention before the referendum. I take it as a measure of your resentment at having your Brexit dreams crushed by a country that you have no respect for. The fact that you think the EU bailed out Italy is a measure how you wield your ignorance. Ireland had a huge recession in 2009-2011. The impact of Brexit will in no way match that bang, and we know we can survive that. We will just have to adapt our economy again as we have done many times before. Can the UK do the same given your lazy unproductive workforce?
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  4.  Stephen Valentine  Of course it does!
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  5. It is trade in the opposite direction that they are referring to.
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  6. Are you quite mad?
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  7.  Stephen Valentine  Why would Ireland 'return to the UK' soon? It would require Ireland to drop its standard of living to meet yours and give up its sovereignty to join a union that may not exist in a decade. Bizarre statement.
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  8. No tampon tax in Ireland.
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  9. They're not that bright. Brexit could send them back to the Stone Age and they could consider it a 'win'.
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  10. This suggests that Irish interests and UK interests are the same. They are not. Ireland is a country where there is 92% support for EU membership and 94% voted in favour of the Belfast Agreement. These numbers inform the Irish government as to what the nationals interest is. Irish strategic interest lies with EU membership and not with a UK that is dominated by delusional Brexiters who lie to themselves.
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  11. How is it a dictatorship when all countries in the bloc have a vote on any deal the UK has with the EU? The EU will be fine in 5 years, but the UK is only 50/50.
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  12. @Is it cos I white? Yes, we pooled some of our sovereign independence to enhance the prosperity of Irish people. We found that hoarding it in an Ivory Tower for decades - as the UK is planning to do - is pointless if you cannot improve the lives of your people. Still, we never had more foodbanks than McDonalds restaurants or UNICEF feeding our kids.
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  13.  Leroy Jenkins 2.0  Ireland has always respected British sovereignty.
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  14.  Leroy Jenkins 2.0  On the 2019 United Nations Human Development Index, Albania is list as 69th in the World, the UK is 15th and Ireland is 3rd. The UK is closer to Albania than Ireland.
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  15. The UK went to war in 1939, along with the French, following the failure of appeasement to halt the geopolitical aspirations of Germany. It turned out that the UK faced losing its sovereignty as a result of it from surrender of France until the invasion of the Soviet Union, but it was not for its sovereignty that it went to war. It was for geopolitical reasons.
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  16.  @millhilljimjimmy6731  Get on with what?
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  17. Excellent post.
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  18. 'One factor that you didn't mention was the EU federalism and the progression to a federal United States of Europe. There is no doubt that will happen.' On the contrary, there is serious doubt that it will happen. This desire for a federal Europe was realistic with the original six members, but today both the Italians and Dutch in particular are strongly against the idea. The fact is, expansion to 27 countries means that it will be practically impossible to get all members to agree to it. We are starting to reach the limits of EU integration. It is quite possible that there will be a united Ireland in the medium term. The English will may well be the ones who force the issue as every single survey of both Leave voters and Tory party members over the last three years has shown that they are not unionists. They want Brexit, and if the price of Brexit is the end of the union, so be it. Therefore the real question is not whether there will be a united Ireland in the medium term, but will there be a United Kingdom. I would argue that Brexit will break up the 'precious union' as there is a diminishing British demos and no constitutional account for the fact that Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain. Against that back drop, and the fact that Brexit is predicted by every rational commentator as being an act of national self harm, Brexit is likely to turbo charge Scottish nationalism. Once they leave, Northern Ireland will follow - what will a unionist be if there is no union? It will not be plane sailing. Any united Ireland will have to be agreed with unionists in NI. The nature of that united Ireland - whether it will be a unitary state or a federal one - will have to be decided by the people of the whole of he Ireland.
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  19.  Stephen Valentine  What are we missing? What are we 'too stupid' not to see?
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  20.  @Skinhead-201  You're big boys now? You have 50,000 dead because the Tories thought English exceptionalism and character would see the UK through the pandemic. It does not bode well for the 'new dawn'.
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  21. Nope and nope.
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  22. That's what Nigel Farage thinks, he keeps telling us that every time he appears on Irish TV. The fact is, the EU is Ireland's biggest export market not the UK; Ireland is the source of the UKs second largest trade surplus. You export more to Ireland than you do to China. As the Irish gradually switch to easier sources of supply in the EU, the UK will be the bigger losers, not Ireland.
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  23.  @nigeljohnson9820  These are EU laws regarding standards and regulations. Abandoning certain laws and regulations will mean you cannot sell your products in the EU. Then you will be limited to your own market. Very sad. This is the reason why UK government cannot and will not run away from the standards and regulations, especially as many of them were British in origin anyway. The UK needs to be able to sell into the EU.
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  24.  @anthonyreright2519  'lol How old the EU that's doomed now and comparing it to the UK that's been together for hundreds of years lol ' What are you trying to say? Your English is awful. Fancy another stab at it?
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  25.  John Bull  Oh look at that - John Bull is trying his hand at economics! Ireland has emphatically NOT been 'fiddling its economic figures for years' - where is the evidence for rubbish statement? Countries don't pay back their national debts, shithead, they grow their economies in relation to it. How is Ireland 'barely making the interest payments', when the interest rates are negative and the financial markets are actually paying countries to roll over their debt? Ireland has a higher standard of living than you do in the UK, a country with more foodbanks than McDonalds restaurants and 13 places behind Ireland in the United Nations Human Development Index. 'Imaginary wealth', indeed.
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  26. I do. Unless you want to discuss your ridiculous post?
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  27. Ladies and Gentlemen, lets check the score and review the Brexit half time highlights, shall we? Sequencing the negotiations will be the 'row of the summer'. EU 1 UK 0 'A free trade deal with the EU will be the easiest in human history' EU 2 UK 0 The EU can divorce bill: the EU can 'whistle for it' EU 3 UK 0 ' We are leaving the Customs Union' EU 4 UK 0 ' The Irish border is a non-story' EU 5 UK 0 The German Automotive industry will take the UKs side EU 6 UK 0 The EU needs the UK more than the UK needs the EU. EU 7 UK 0 7-0 down at the end of the first half. Don't go away folks, that was the easy bit.
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  28. Brexiters will always be angry, it is part of their condition.
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  29. It is fundamentalists because the UK fishing industry is a tiny part of the UK economy, and its value to Brexiters is symbolic not economic.
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  30.  @eddiel7635  Well, the UK needs a trade deal, and it is in the weaker negotiating position. If there is not a deal by 31st December, it will only be no deal for now. The UK will be back and it will give the EU what it needs in order to get the access it wants to the EUs single market. There really isn't a debate to be had about this either.
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  31.  @eddiel7635  The UK needs a trade deal, an anchor deal, with the EU or US. The fact that you have not signed one yet is because your preference is for an EU deal, and the potential deal with the US was to be used as leverage or a backstop. The risk of no deal with the EU has diminished significantly since Biden won the US Presidential election. It is difficult to see how Ireland has been 'chucked under a bus' by the EU, though Brexiters are prone to this hallucination without ever being able articulate it. How could it be possible? After all, you also admit that the UK has not signed any deal. Furthermore, Ireland has outplayed the UK diplomatically in both Brussels and Washington, and if the UK does not sign a deal with the EU, it will only be a temporary. Food shortages and other chaos will see to that. Your claim that I have given up on my argument that the UKs fisheries policy is fundamentalist is your error. My argument still stands. The UK will cave in on fish in order to get increases access for its car assembly factories etc. That's where the jobs and the votes are.
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  32. Well, a poll of the 100,000 or so Tory members who elected Johnson shows overwhelming support for the sacrifice of NI for Brexit if it came to it...
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  33.  Stephen Valentine  How is Ireland extremely important to the SURVIVAL of Ireland?
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  34.  Leroy Jenkins 2.0  I have no idea what this statement is supposed to mean. When did not Ireland NOT respect British sovereignty?
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  35.  Leroy Jenkins 2.0  'Micro-identities', eh? What an unfortunate term. The fact is, being English or Scottish is becoming the dominant identity in both England and Scotland and the evidence is there to back it up. You need to get with the trend, or be left behind. 'Micro-identities' Try 'multi-layered' identity instead, it is a more appropriate term. The multi-layered British identity is also the identity that the people of the UK are gradually abandoning. Force for good in the world? Depends on who you ask.
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  36. Bollox. The UK fought WW2 to stop Germany geopolitical ambitions, and almost lost the war in 1940. Stupid comments like yours are a result of the downgrading of history in the UK school curriculum. It results in a nation of fuckwits.
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  37. Less than taking the landbridge post-Brexit.
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  38.  @brutallyhonest9140 I expect that trade between the two islands will decline over time. It is inevitable because our two economies are continuing to diverge. The spite is on your side, and it is not healthy in the long term.
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  39.  @brutallyhonest9140  Well, the UK looks fairly isolated now.
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  40.  @brutallyhonest9140  Yes, that's a perfect example of your isolation. Glad you are enjoying it. It's what you voted for!
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  41. Do tell!
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  42.  @Mo-hc9lc  No they didn't.
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  43.  @oldseadog3386  They can go on the landbridge on those days. Or they can wait until the storm passes. Problem solved.
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  44. ToonandBBfan - Ireland trades with primitives all the time, indeed the British Empire was built on the notion of trading with primitives. I fail see why Ireland should not be trading with the UK because 52% of them are primitive thinkers.
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  45. Because before the British put up obstacles to trade, transiting the UK was a viable option. Now because of delays at Dover, the sea route saves time. 40% of Irish trade is with the EU, while only 10% is with the UK - why would Ireland leave the EU? The only spoiled brats are the Brexiters.
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  46. Ireland is happy in the EU, Brexit is British policy. Why don't the UK reverse Brexit on the grounds that it is stupid, we'll forget everything, problem solved?
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  47. Ah Trevor. We're still exporting to the UK, this to a avoid the bottle neck at Dover.
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  48.  @obadiahspong2300  And that is set to change because the British are changing the Status Quo. Ireland will be fine and will move away from the UK market over time. Which part of we by more from the UK than we sell to the UK do you not understand?
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  49.  @MrAthlon4800  The road upgrade was already planned, and has now been brought forward. While it is necessary for you to believe this is a Brexit 'win', it really is not. The additional paperwork at Dover and elsewhere makes this new initiative viable and the threat to Ireland of the Irish hauliers being used as bargaining chips with the EU in the future is a strategic weakness for Ireland that is now resolved. These developments are a boon to Rosslare Europort, leading to new employment opportunities and is a shot in the arm for the local economy. Hauliers happy with the more direct port to port routes to Dunkirk, Cherbourg and Bilbao, leading to more rest time for drivers and less wear and tear on vehicles. It is further evidence that the UK is just a little bit less important to its neighbours than Brexiters told themselves, so you will need to point to environmental gains for the UK from the reduced number of Irish trucks on your roads instead.
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  50.  @jacquilayton2557  Oh! Another Brexiter playing Nostradamus!
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