Comments by "Taint ABird" (@taintabird23) on "Brexit: 'Major consequences' over NI protocol being breached by the UK" video.

@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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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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@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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Right. So Irish sovereignty does not count, am I correct?
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@bevroe5354 Ireland needs the EU. It does not need England. That is just a matter of fact.
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@lilbrit1019 The Scots don't need England. This need to believe that others cannot survive without the English is truly pathetic.
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@bevroe5354 I'm afraid there is no majority in NI that supports that view. But who cares about that, right?
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The point is, after all the foot -dragging by the UK, it is now believed across the EU that the UK has no intention of implementing the deal it signed. Therefore Article 16 will see the EU shelve the deal and sanction the UK.
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@honestdave9855 Despise democracy? The UK despises democracy - it is one of the least democratic states in Europe.
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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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@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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@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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@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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The US would hammer the UK also.
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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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A lot of us do care Kevin, especially as events on the other island may bring it forward for us to have to deal with whether we would like it, or not sooner rather than later.
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The UK put the border in Ireland in the first place, creating Northern Ireland and the subsequent problem.
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Good job the UK never signed up for such an arrangement or worse, gave the chief negotiator a seat in the House of Lords as reward for negotiating it. That would have been embarrassing.
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Cry me a river.
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@graveperil2169 It is implementing an aspect of it, yes.
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@lilbrit1019 Sorry, but the experience of Ireland contradicts your assertion on every level. Being part of UK holds back its constituent regions, and that includes England. Every revolves around London.
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It might be because it is irrelevant.
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