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

  1.  @peterwilliamallen1063  Why was the UK unable to trade with the rest of the world as a member of the EU? Other members are....
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  2.  @peterwilliamallen1063  Great. So who does Brussels dictate to EU members that it cannot trade with? If the UK wants to trade without ties, why did it sign a TCA with the EU?
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  3.  @peterwilliamallen1063  How come Germany, Ireland and other countries trade quite freely with countries outside the EU? The French are selling Rafale jet fighters to the Indians - how did that happen? The Swedes are selling Saab Gripen fighters to Brazil - no trade deal here either. Why does Germany sell more stuff to China as a member than the UK does outside the EU? How does Ireland sell more stuff to the US per head of population than the UK when the EU has no trade deal with the US?
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  4. The bloc existed before the UK ever joined, it will survive without it.
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  5. And the evidence for that is...
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  6. @Pan-Britannic Syndicalist Socialist That is not an experience of him I recognise...
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  7. What action that?
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  8. 'Europe has known about Brexit for more then 3 yrs now, so it will have to be no deal then simple as that.' The UK has been unavailable to negotiate a trade deal up to now, as it spent 3 years negotiating with itself. 'Ireland are saying that Europe may gang up on the UK on what they want...' Ireland is not saying that, at all. '...how dare they I mean all the things that the United Kingdom has has done for Europe & this is how they treat us just because we wanted our country back' Why are Brexiters so full of self-pity? What did the UK do for EU?
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  9. Control for what purpose?
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  10.  @cyro-hogmanyt3903  I don't understand what that means.
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  11. By listening to their PM? Kind of drives a coach and four through the Brexiter notion that the EU is a 'dictatorship'.
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  12. Famous last words... The collapse/dissolution/break up has already begun.
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  13. The break up of the UK began in the late 90s with the devolution for Scotland and in NI the Belfast Agreement. The Scots are gradually moving away from Westminster while NI can vote to leave the UK at any time and unite with the UK. Brexit has shown the extent to which English ambitions and world view differs from the others. Brexit has brought the EU together. Eurosceptics in the EU are seeking to reform the EU from within rather than try to leave it. There isn't a cigarette paper between any of the countries in the EU regarding moving on the WA, the border, the Four Freedoms... British Eurosceptics have been predicting the end of the European project since 1958.
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  14. It actually began with the Treaty of Rome.
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  15. The people of Northern Ireland could not agree on what that new state would look like.
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  16. It won't need to. The NIP is a unique opportunity for Northern Ireland to attract foreign direct investment which will transform the Northern Ireland's economy vastly reducing the cost the rest of Ireland. It will take about 10 to 15 years for the Northern Ireland economy to catch up with the south.
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  17.  @petercutting6126  The FDI is likely to come from the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand...not to mentioned investment from Britisg companies seeking a base in the Single Market. NI has an educated workforce that normally moves to Britain for work. They can be now be enticed to stay, once the companies set up.
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  18.  @5888max  The HSE costs about 15 billion.
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  19.  @maxdavis7722  Ireland exercises no claim over Northern Ireland. However, partition is artificial and has never worked anywhere it has been tried. In Northern Ireland's case, it is a physical expression of social, cultural, sectarian and economic divisions within Northern Ireland. These divisions need to be removed in order for there to be unity within Northern Ireland. NI is contested territory because of its colonial experience. As these divisions wain, unity with the south will quite naturally come about leading to the creation of a new state.
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  20.  @maxdavis7722  The border was only ever meant to be temporary when it was brought in. It was intended that unionists and nationalists would work our their differences and unite, but the Unionists had no intention of doing so. The border itself is not natural.
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  21.  @maxdavis7722  I disagree. The border is purely artificial and designed to create an artificial Protestant majority. That is diminishing over time and in further time the gravity of economics, social relationships, and constitutional changes in Britain will result in a transition towards unity. Thus a 'natural' unity. The train has already left the station.
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  22. I think the problem is that Brexit means Brexit but the UK has failed to deal with it.
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  23. How can the British make Great Britain great again, when the Scots voted by 2:1 to remain? And what about Northern Ireland?
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  24. The are welcome to leave, they just can't set the terms of their departure.
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  25. From the outside looking in, it appears the UK is in throes of a collective mental breakdown.
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  26. I think your caps lock key is stuck.
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  27. Yes. The only problem the English have with the EU is that they can't control it.
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  28. It is probably the last referendum they will ever have in the UK. They don't know how to conduct them.
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  29. Brexit IS the false flag!
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  30. There is no majority in Northern Ireland in favour of Brexit, and no majority in favour of unilateral action on the protocol in Northern Ireland by the British government. Brexit and DUP duplicity are responsible for the Brexit tensions, along with the civil war inside the Tory party.
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  31. It's from his mother's side.
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  32. The UK can only provide 60% of its own food needs.
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  33. Is it because JFK never even mentioned Northern Ireland when he visited in 1963?
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  34. 'A border and check should have been erected immediately and hasten the process of dismantling Brexit in its tracks.' Where?
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  35.  @tomipresley6246  The whole point of the protocol is to maintain the status quo, not create a new border on the island of Ireland that nobody voted for!
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  36. Evidence: https://www.independent.ie/business/brexit/border-checks-after-nodeal-brexit-will-only-be-a-temporary-arrangement-coveney-38491650.html
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  37. Yes, for the first time in my life, I think a united Ireland is a very real possibility now.
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  38.  @thedin3467  How? Through a border poll held in both parts of the island, of course.
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  39.  MsMissy  Yeah, but the others were.
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  40. They can't. The Good Friday Agreement won't let them.
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  41. How has this government 'destroyed Ireland'?
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  42. What is the WEF? He was no disaster for Ireland when it came to stand up to Brexit Britain.
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  43. No. The EU does not ask anybody to give up their citizenship - it asks them to add an EU citizenship to their national citizenship. Unionists in Northern Ireland who feel oppressed by Brexit and possess and Irish passport, are both British and EU citizens. This entitles them, for example, to have freedom of movement in Britain and across the EU.
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  44. He's the President of Ukraine, democratically elected by the people of Ukraine.
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  45.  @achintya3061  No, of course not. He is a remarkable president.
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  46. Build more houses, problem solved.
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  47.  @lucastaylor2321  Correct.
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  48. All of those products together represent a total of 4% of all Irish exports. http://www.worldstopexports.com/irelands-top-10-exports/ The UK is Ireland third largest market, representing 11% of Ireland's entire exports. And it works both ways - Ireland is the UKs fifth largest export market and the only country, a part from the United States, with which it has a surplus: Ireland buys more from the UK than the UK buys from Ireland...and Ireland buys some stuff that UK does not export elsewhere.
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  49. The problem with the EU is that because requires the will of the people, any trade deal must be ratified by the 27. The UK is not even burdened with having to get support of the Northern Ireland assembly, Scottish or Welsh Parliaments for the WA... Nobody accepts that the UK was not an independent country before Brexit...
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  50.  @stevekildare4053  I'm sure they will, that's what they always do. Won't changing anything though.
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