Comments by "Taint ABird" (@taintabird23) on "Brexit negotiations still in turmoil ahead of tomorrow's key vote | #GME" video.

  1. Nigel, its not the EU that is myopic, it is UK. Read what Sam Hartford has posted over and over again until you understand it.
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  2. @ Nigel Yes, but you will not last long...a country that throws an international peace treaty under a bus and walks away from a €39 billion commitment to the EU will be something of a pariah on the international stage. And you will have to come back. You will find that trading on WTO without trade deals alongside Somalia, South Sudan, East Timor, The Vatican, Serbia, Monaco, Sudan and Western Sahara comes at a cost you cannot bear. You will come crawling back when the City decides it wants a deal with the EU, the worlds largest trading bloc, on its doorstep. You will cough up the 39 billion and return to Customs Union and Single Market in order get a quick deal. The humiliation will be complete. You will have discovered the limitations of independence in a world of interdependence. You will leave, and you will return. Which part of that do you not understand?
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  3. @ Nigel Johnson No country in the EU is dictated to by anybody - this the myth your Brexit is based upon. It is not like the US State Department, which has dictated your country's foreign policy since 1945, for example. The EU is its membership - Ireland IS the EU, just like the UK and the other members are. You owe bills to the EU that you will pay either now or later. You will have to put a customs check on your border in Ireland in accordance with WTO regulations - the unelected bureaucrats in Switzerland will set you straight on that in a few weeks time. It was the Irish who brought the issue of the British border in Ireland in the context of the Belfast Agreement to Brussels and Irish diplomats who got it placed at the top of the EU agenda alongside money and freedom of movement. The fact is, Ireland has the UK by the balls and it is your own fault.
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  4. @ Nigel Johsnon We shall see indeed. Given that every single Brexiter prediction has failed to materialise, your confidence is heroic.
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