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

  1. 99%?
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  2. And 2018 Darwin Award goes to.....*drum roll*.... the DUP!
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  3. The UK is already splitting up.
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  4. I thought the Germans were suppose to throw the Irish under a bus, or something? And where's the German car industry? Its not like the Germans to be late.
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  5. Spoken like a true Brexit ignoramus. The citizen of a country that has never known oppression or had foreign boots on their soil but who thinks he is OPPRESSED by the EU, a bloc of nations he can actually vote to leave, posts a brain fart on the internet. If we can agree that the Irish actually know what oppression looks like, why it is not something of a red flag for Brexiters that the Irish don't find anything oppressive about the EU, is a great mystery here. I put it down to denial and a lack of testicular fortitude. If the English were true to themselves, they would copy Ireland by leaving the right union and learn to stand on their own two feet as an independent nation. The have yet to grow a pair in order to do that. 'Bloody cowards', indeed.
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  6. Best description of the UK I have read in quite a while.
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  7. There is no majority in Ireland for leaving the EU, on either side of the border. Leaving the EU is response to English insecurities, and has nothing to do with Ireland.
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  8.  @markdoherty8161  I think it is silly to claim Ireland is ruled by Brussels. It shows a remarkable ignorance.
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  9.  @IslaSkye123  We do. We have a special affinity for those of Irish heritage and they are acknowledge in Article 2 of the Irish constitution which describes 'The Nation'. Got any Irish in ya?
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  10. No, its not.
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  11.  @e3498-v7l  Actually, Brexit is the problem - the Protocol is the solution. There is nothing ''hostile' about the EUs interpretation of it, what is hostile is the UK governments attitude to it, signing a deal they never intended to keep.
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  12.  @G94-u4c  We're doing okay.
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  13.  @bevroe5354  It won't be the EU that will trigger it, it will the UK. They will give a month's notice next week. The EU will respond after that.
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  14. The backstop was May's idea. Under the GFA, the people of NI can be Irish or British united under a common EU citizenship and identity. Any change from the status quo because of Brexit is a divergence from the agreement. How can Irish citizens retain EU citizenship and rights if they are outside the EU? Under the GFA, it is understood that any changes in NI will be done by consent. Northern Ireland voted to remain and did not give its consent. How does Brexit account for this need for consent in NI?
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  15. Poll after poll indicates that most people in the south would like to see a united Ireland, just not yet.
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  16. The US would hammer the UK also.
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  17. @ Diana Mitford Why is a move to Ireland a 'step down for a Briton'? Serious question.
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  18. 'When I last checked 98.9 percent voted to remain in the UK' Was this the referendum that nationalists ignored?
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  19. Yesterday Russian TV simulated the explosion of a 100 megaton bomb off the coast of Ireland, annihilating neutral Ireland in an attack on the UK.
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  20. Ireland has strong values, they're probably just not yours.
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  21. The only valuable sentence in your post is the last one. It explains all that went before it.
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  22.  @hardrockuk_com  Why on earth would the Irish rejoin the UK? We're in the middle of commemorating the centenary of our departure from it. Even the suggestion demonstrates how little English people think of Irish sovereignty.
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  23. 'The Alternative is Independence' Independence? NI can't even govern itself under devolution, and its economy is a basketcase. The problem is Brexit.
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  24.  @andrewdouglas1963  Unionists would not tolerate a nationalist majority in Stormont, and we know how the Unionists would behave when they half the power from history. In such circumstances, how could independence Northern Ireland work politically? It would last a week. Power sharing is the only way for now. When it becomes a normal society it can be a normal democracy with a functioning, constructive opposition regardless of who is in power.
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  25.  @hardrockuk_com  The UK is a dead weight. Ireland is fine, thanks.
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  26.  @Nickle314  Ireland obeys all international treaties. Ireland is not required to have an FTA with the UK under the Belfast Agreement, it was assumed both states would remain in the EU. If an FTA was required, it would be said that the UK vote to leave the EU and the Tory parties decision to leave the SM and CU in 2016 would be considered and illegal act. It is not. It is considered a lie to the British people instead. The UK faces no deal with the EU, no deal with the US and pariah state on the international stage. Nice one.
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  27. That is a matter for the American's and the EU, but in any case, Ireland has still managed to successfully trade with the Americans.
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  28. Ireland does not have hospital ships or hospital planes.
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  29.  @songsmith31a  Yes, the Irish lived happily ever after, and that is all that matters. Democracy does indeed take many forms, none of includes what passes for it in your country in 2022.
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  30. It's 'survivable'! Is this better or worse than JRM's assertion that a no-deal Brexit is 'not the end of the world'?
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  31. Well, there's the 48%...
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  32. Ireland is not a British Isle.
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  33. What name does this person got by?
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  34. What doubts? It is certain that the UK will become a satellite of the European Union post-Brexit.
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  35. I can't wait to see a Brit putting an American President 'in his place', especially when they need a trade deal with the US.
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  36. Sorry, the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement says otherwise. Cheers.
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  37. Well, the EU has been waiting for the UK. The British have been discussing Brexit with itself for over three years...
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  38. How were the Irish people 'bullied into a dictatorship'? Ireland did not return to the UK.
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  39. Excellent. The UK will be much weaker then.
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  40. The Shinners are really well coached by PR people. Their interviews are always easy though, they are constantly asked the same questions.
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  41. The republic has a higher standard of living than the Northern Ireland.
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  42.  @Typhin That's a good question. Higher average salaries, higher old age pension, higher minimum wage...but the biggest difference is that the living standard in NI is inflated by large annual transfers from Westminster. In the republic, it is generated by economic activity. In a united Ireland, investment in the economy - which is higher in the republic - would offset the subsidized NI economy over time.
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  43. What is wrong with her?
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  44.  @thequietman7817  The will of the English people...
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  45.  @thequietman7817  On the contrary - that is precisely what they will do. They will take their independence and pool their sovereignty with the other small nations of Europe. It is just a matter of time...
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  46. Because the British keep finding new problems, every time the EU comes up with a solution. This indicates the UK is negotiating in bad faith.
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  47. Who is Padrig Pierce? How is the EU a 'Commy Dictatorship'?
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  48. Yes, they hold Westminster in contempt.
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  49.  @SidFredrickson  What part of Irish culture is not being preserved? Irish culture and identity has never been more confident.
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  50. Could be worse. They could have had Boris Johnson, he was even born in America.
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