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

  1. If only someone could have predicted this.
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  2. I thought the courts said that Brexit was the problem, not the protocol?
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  3. Of course all of this could have been avoided if the UK had taken the time to come up with a coherent plan to leave the EU. Instead its Ireland's fault if it does not sacrifice itself at the altar of Brexit.
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  4. Scotland's long term best interests are best served by being free of English Tory dominated Westminster. They should apply to join the EU as soon as possible thereafter.
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  5. Naomi Long is right.
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  6. For Brexit to work the UK needs the Irish to sacrifice their own well-being, and the Irish are refusing to do it. They just assumed the Irish would do this without question, it appears.
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  7.  @lukec7493  And they have brought feed to farms in the Mourne Mountains during bad snow...
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  8. I don't think I will ever get used to British royalty laying wreaths in remembrance of those to died fighting the Crown.
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  9. Forgotten? They don't care.
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  10. @ Damian Speak for yourself Damian, yours is not the majority opinion in Ireland.
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  11. He once said that 'NI is as British as Somerset'. I knew then he was a buck eejit.
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  12. Incoherence is one of the characteristics of Brexit.
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  13.  @compedious591  He's talking about Erasmus.
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  14. @5888max The UK cannot agree its position. The UK government is being dictated to in part by the DUP who do not represent the majority in NI who wish to Remain, and an even larger majority that support the backstop. In this context, it is not politically possible for the Irish government to come to your rescue. At every opportunity, the Tory government has put the Tory party before its own country, and it cares not a jot for Ireland. Brexit is British policy. Britain must take responsibility for what happens next. In Ireland, Ireland comes first, not Britain.
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  15.  @Gambit771  Funny innit. Americans are more proud and emotional about their Irish ancestry than their English ancestry.
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  16. When Ireland became a republic, India was one of the first countries to receive and Irish Ambassador.
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  17. For a non-Brit and a non-Spaniard, the comments below are absolutely hysterical.
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  18. Except for Ulster Unionists.
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  19. The German state has already apologied for what their ancestors did in WW2 AND they went further and apologies for their imperial behaviour in their African colonies long before that. They have a established a museum to their imperial past to teach modern Germans about the nature of European Imperialism. The British have made no such acknowledgement to their past and have yet to come to terms with the true nature of British imperialism. An acknowledgement can be as powerful as an apology.
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  20.  @noodlyappendage6729  In relation to NI, it cannot.
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  21. @Boby Crush The border in the Irish Sea is causing the problems...the UK should have stayed in the Single Market and the Customs Union.
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  22. Varadkar stood up for the Irish people with Brexiters for a start.
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  23.  @misterlimey6408  The UK is already in the process of breaking up, and has been since 1998, it is just that the English have yet to grow a pair, stand on their own two feet and leave the right union. There will be no armed conflict, but there will be civil unrest in the UK in due course.
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  24. Ireland was part of the UK from 1801 to 1921...the trouble is, the Irish weren't made to feel like they were the same as the English, Scots and the Welsh as we can see by the UK Governments response to the Famine.
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  25.  @anthonyfoster2605  Blind ignorance will sink the UK.
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  26. He went to NI to help solve a problem and then returned to Dublin a few hours later to bury his mother.
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  27. Ireland is a democracy, unlike your own country. In Ireland, an important aspect of democracy is having the right to change your mind. Ireland has had three referenda on abortion, two on divorce, and two each on the Nice and Lisbon treaties in the last 40 years. Contrary to claims from the ignoramus class that rule your country, Ireland was never 'made to vote again' as this is not allowed under the Irish constitution. It voted on different treaties or legislation each time, until the legislators got it right and the Irish people accepted it.
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  28. I think it is because most normal people know that the EU is much bigger than the UK and has a much bigger foot.
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  29.  @paulgibbons2320  If Brexit goes well, Brexiters were right. If Brexit goes badly, it is somebody else's fault. Brexiters are blameless, only responsible for sunny uplands. Everybody knows that.
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  30. @Boby Crush 'The EU is causing the problem, using NI as a political football and they just did the dirty on Ireland by shutting the border.' First of all, no border has been closed in Ireland. The problem has been caused by the UK, changing the status quo by leaving the Single Market and the Customs Union. The decision to this occurred after the referendum at the Tory Party Conference in October 2016 - after the referendum. Nobody in Ireland voted to have customs border in Ireland. 'If the EU don't budge then the Protocol will have to go.' The EU may budge, it will not be enough for Brexiters, it never is, they always want more. It will be interesting to see what happens next.
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  31.  @catchagrip.9468  The people of Northern Ireland did not vote for Brexit. Nationalists are on the cusp of being the majority in Northern Ireland and did not want any customs posts on the border (or away from it). Johnson's solution was to put the border in the Irish Sea - that was a British suggestion, not an Irish or EU one. This is going to bring the issue of Irish unity to a head much sooner and rather than it coming about naturally through changes in relationships over decades, it will be in response to alien values in England. The Unionists are having the rug pulled out from under them by Brexit. Brexit is a bad idea and can only work if others are prepared to accept their role as collateral damage.
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  32. The trade tension relate to Brexit and the border in the Irish Sea, which the UK agreed too but can cope with.
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  33. I know. They remember the 'blitz' and WW2 - even though none of them experienced it, but have a blind spot when it comes to the Troubles which only ended 20 years ago. Brexit is utterly incoherent.
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  34.  @noodlyappendage6729  That is not necessary as that is what the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference is for, but the UK PM needs to start attending.
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  35. Sorry, no can do.
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  36. So far, the British have made it very difficult. For themselves, of course.
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  37. Brexit means Brexit, but all the problems it is causing are the EUs fault.
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  38.  @argus0ia  Brexiters are driven mad by Ireland's influential position in the world, Irish self-confidence as a nation and Ireland's cheek in having won its sovereignty and knowing how to use it.
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  39.  @timlinator  I think the Brexiters are unaware of the Suez Crisis and how the US put manners on them then. This whole charade will end in humiliation for the UK, and I don't think that is a good thing either. Britain is ripe for a fascist take over.
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  40. Indeed, there was no vote in favour of taking 'a hit'. It was supposed to be all sunny uplands. Secondly, any discussion on taking 'a hit' is dismissed as project fear. Thirdly, the 'oppression' Brexiters claim to feel as part of the EU is a product of their imagination. Your comment points to the incoherence of Brexit.
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  41. The trouble is, while Republicans served a 100,000 years for their crimes, and Loyalists 60,000 years for theirs, only 3 British soldiers were ever convicted for unlawful killings. They served only 17 years and were returned to their units after their release and often promoted. That is an injustice by the state, the very state that nationalists need to have confidence in if they were to become comfortable with being in the UK. In the case of Bloody Sunday, the names of the victims were sullied in order to exonerate the soldiers. The IRA were terrorists, as were the UVF et al. Police, soldiers and the judiciary are always held to a higher standard, otherwise the state has no legitimacy.
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  42. Right. So Irish sovereignty does not count, am I correct?
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  43. Furthermore, their own courts told them there was nothing wrong with the Protocol. This means the problem is Brexit, not the Protocol.
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  44. If there is a no deal there will be a hard border. Ireland requires the backstop to ensure there is a no border. The Irish government don't trust the UK government dominated as it is by the will of hardline Brexiters in the Tory Party. If there is a hard border, then Brexit becomes Ireland's problem - a hard border is political suicide for every Irish party, and will force unification onto the agenda in a very divisive way.. Ireland wishes to remain in the EU, therefore Ireland leaving, which may have been an assumption of Brexiters, is not an option. Brexit is British policy, not an Irish one.
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  45. Northern Ireland is still part of the UK...it just also has access to the EUs Single Market. There is no majority in Northern Ireland to change that situation.
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  46. Ireland will have to put a border up with the EU. A hard border in Ireland is politically unacceptable, but a customs border is necessary somewhere because of the fundamentals of international trade demand it. Once it was clear to Irish that they were being held to ransom by the UK in order to gain leverage over the EU. The Irish sided with the EU because Brexit is nothing to do with Ireland. With the DUP on board, the Irish government has had to fight hard to protect the GFA from being torn up by extremists in the UK. The consequences of Brexit will be the fault of the UK.
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  47. That was not on the ballot paper.
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  48. The British came up with the idea of the backstop, the Irish only agreed to it.
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  49. Not as funny as signing an agreement with the EU without reading it.
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  50. I think its cute that Brexiters think orherwise.
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