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They announced it on the news this morning. However, it was not yet official. No conspiracy theory here.
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I wish!
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It will be well over 50% in Britain, probably is already. It will be too late for them by then.
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It is about the bad faith of the UK, which keeps finding new problems for every EU consession, the latest being the ECJ. It is obvious they have no intention of implementing the NIP.
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@lilbrit1019 The 'hole world' supports the EU in this matter, and the EU is the only party willing to make any concessions. However, the UK is not a country that will take YES for an answer.
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@lilbrit1019 Yeah. The very existence of the Republic of Ireland suggests otherwise. Nobody NEEDS England.
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@lilbrit1019 Scotland's quality of life is dropping anyway because of Brexit...
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Tommy Stone Yes, there is no armed conflict. There is no support for it.
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Polls don't indicate that at all
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in the UK and Ireland it only gathered 3,000 viewers a day. Nobody watched it.
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Why? Is an agreement with the UK not worth the paper it is written on?
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@MoebiusUK Its all Brexiters have got...
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@diegolove173 Well said.
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Only the people of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland can decide that. Brexit is the wrong context for such a divisive discussion.
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John Hume and Gerry Adams both have English names, but nobody would assume they were Northern Irish unionists.
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Brexiters will not take any responsibility for this chaos. They will just blame others: immigrants, remainers, the Irish, Brussels.
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Its not her opinion, regardless of who is in charge, the position will be the same.
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Ireland would be breaking international law by having an FTA with the UK while a member of the EU. The GFA has nothing to with it, only the UK is changing the status quo and Ireland will not be leaving the EU. The reason the Irish don't fall for this Brexit bullshit is because it knows precisely when it is being played - and by whom.
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That's the plan. Wait until the UK leaves and when faced with the realities of Brexit, the EU will place the WA in front of the UK, along with a pen and receipt for 30+ billion. Has the WTO signed off on the UKs schedule yet?
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Its not just Luxembourg.
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Because Brexit died at birth, in June 2016, when it encountered reality.
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Actually, the UK will be hurt more than anyone. The Irish will be hurt second worst. But at least they will still have access to EU markets and trade deals while the UK will have a deal with Japan that is less than it had with the EU.
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The Irish are not going to leave the EU.
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His father is from India and his mother is from Ireland. Half of his heritage is Indian. An Irish-Indian drives many English people mental. 🙂 This makes many Irish people and many Indian people happy. 🙂
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The UK will collapse because the democratic deficit within the UK regarding the EU, not because of the EU.
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@simonshiels1 Westminster.
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@timlinator Indeed, it may. It will not come to that though. The UKs prestige and reputation would never recover from such an attack on a sovereign nation and not even Brexiters are that stupid.
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@timlinator It is hard to know - genuinely, it is. The Brexit leadership are not bright people, and were stunned when they discovered that Brussels would put the interests of a member state (Ireland) over that of a very important third country (the UK). Much of their antics can be explained by simply not understanding how the EU actually works and what its interests are, and instead they believed their own narrative that the EU is simply run by Germany and France for Germany and France. The reality is that that EU is made up of small nations, half of them smaller than Ireland, and they will not allow the EU to turn its back on Ireland because none of those countries on the eastern border of the EU want Putin to think the EU will give up its members to meet the requirements of a third country. Anyway, these pantomime dames believe that the UK has a 'special relationship' with the United States and that this will trump any sentimental feelings the Irish-Americans have for Ireland. What they don't understand is that Irish-Americans know that they are American today because of a previous time the British shafted the Irish - their ancestors. They will not stand by and be party to facilitating that again. Besides, the US does not need the UK but the UK sure does need the US. On the other hand, perhaps they do understand the limitations of their position and are simply playing chicken with the EU. who are trying to find consensus with a UK that sees concessions as a sign of weakness.
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Why not?
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@petardos2684 As far as I know, most pubs are closing too.
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If there is a wall, the sale of ladders in Northern Ireland and the Republic will soar.
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Nothing. It would be all over in hours.
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The problem with the British is that they happily engage in Tansplaning to Irish about their own country, blissfully unaware that they are engaging in the Dunning-Kruger effect. Your post exemplifies this perfectly. Ireland does not 'triangulate' regarding a united Ireland, the GFA has taken care of all of that. Key to the GFA is the principle of consent, and the Irish governments main criticisms of Brexit has been how it pivots NI towards unity BEFORE any reconciliation has taken place. Varadkar's Fine Gael party is traditionally the most pro-British on the Irish political landscape and only last week Varadkar rebuffed any suggestion of even discussing Irish unity in the Republic, much to the chagrin of Sinn Féin. Not that you'd know anything about that, of course...
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I was struck by that also. Articulate, intelligent, competent and female.
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Ireland is taking in tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees, and sending humanitarian aid. It is also using its seat on the UN Security Council to speak up for Ukraine and its membership of the EU to fast track Ukraine's application for membership. Ireland is militarily non-aligned but is not morally neutral.
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I give the UK about 5-10 years. The EU will be fine.
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@noodlyappendage6729 There most certainly is not. The Irredentist claim was removed from the Irish constitution in 1998 and replaced with the aspiration to united the people of the island. The trouble for loyalists is that the direction of travel is towards unity, perhaps in another 20 years or so. Then a new state will be formed, with a new anthem, probably a new flag and so on.
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@ Alan Edwards Exactly. That's why the Irish would never believe that going to WTO would be better than staying in the EU. I also worry about Irish trucks transiting the UK after the food rationing kicks in post Brexit.
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Well, that confident prediction was made before the WA was passed and it proved not to be the case. The fact is, the EU and its industry will not undermine itself to get a trade deal with the UK. Unlike in the UK, there is political consensus in relation to Brexit across all EU member states so far, but it will be politicians and not industry that will be voting on the final trade deal. Go to WTO and experience life with the US dictating a trade deal. Brexiters will soon be brought down to earth when confronted with reality. An EU trade deal might look much sweeter for the UK by 2025.
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The Irish and the French did not vote for Brexit, sorry.
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POPPY SEED 27 new cases in the Republic today. This thing is going to explode over the next week or so.
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Only about 10,000 out of 3.5 million voters in the last General Election, I'm afraid.
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How?
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So who then?
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There will be checks away from the border, but border will remain open until the UK diverges from EU regulations.
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The Irish President is very small. Varadkar is very tall.
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@lilbrit1019 The English never bailed out out 'the Irish government'. They borrowed money and gave it to the Irish government to bail out the banks, to protect British banks from their exposure to Irish banking crisis. And to prop up the UKs 5th most important export market. Just as the Irish contributed, how ever small, to the IMF bail out of the UK in 1976. Ireland was just as dependent on the rest of Britain in 1921 as Scotland is today and had none of Scotlands advantages. Scotland will be a successful independent country once the deadweight of England is lifted from it.
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@lilbrit1019 The UK is making itself a hostage...because of its inability to make any consessions from the ideology of Brexit. Brexiters have failed their country.
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@lilbrit1019 Brexiters don't like the facts when they are presented to. Sure, they even elected a liar as PM to make sure of it.
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That's what the voters thought too.
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