Comments by "Taint ABird" (@taintabird23) on "Daily Mail World" channel.

  1. Irish soft power in action. Nice.
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  2. It is best for the EU to let the UK leave without a deal, and for the reality of Brexit to become apparent.
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  3. The English never had any say in Ireland until they colonised it. I think English colonisation was a disgrace. The UK must now face break up because it can either have Brexit or it can have the precious union, but it cannot have both.
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  4. How is Varadkar not Irish?
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  5. You know nothing about either communism or dictators.
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  6. Ireland tried to pay back the remaining element of the loan from the UK last November, but the UK refused it.
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  7. Fantastic analysis.
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  8. Really? You don't think Brexit has anything to do with future relationships? Of course not.
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  9. Actually, what he said was somewhat different to The Sun report - but given their standard of journalism, what does one expect. When the UK leaves the EU it leaves the Open Skies Agreement and will have no landing rights in Dublin, Paris or anywhere else in the EU. This is why Easyjet has set up an Austrian subsidiary. You should be negotiating a new arrangement now, but the Tory party is too busy tearing itself apart to notice. This is what Varadkar mentioned in his press conference, but The Sun journalist, decided he was saying something that would sell more papers.
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  10. I suggest the UK gets is own house in order before it attempts to negotiate with the EU.
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  11. Fraud Frost bottled it. There will be no triggering of article 16 because the Americans refused to give the UK permission. Its got Ireland's back.
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  12. Rubbish, you signed the deal with the ECJ recognised in it. You need to implement it now or face sanctions. The EU has made concessions and got nothing but more demands in return. The game is up.
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  13. Indeed. And with the no deal the UK will have the pleasure of sorting out a WTO schedule with 163 countries, all of whom with be required to certify the UKs schedule. Already the US, Brazil and New Zealand have voice objections to UK aspirations under WTO... So much for taking back control! LMAO!
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  14.  @MrJoecool9999  Of course you are. You backed a statement that claims Ireland and France are communist dictatorships. Both happen to be part of the EU, engaged in EU business in Dublin - You even claim 'all political parties in Ireland are Pro the Globalist agenda' while claiming that 'Globalism = Global Communism'. What normal person thinks Ireland is communist? It okay, I don't expect you to understand what you said, because you clearly don't know what you are talking about.
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  15. The Irish have been moving Boats, Ships, and Planes outside Ireland without British permission since 1922. What planet are you on, Stewart? As for the train, only the Enterprise Service between Dublin and Belfast requires permission by either of the governments. You sir, are a fuckwit of the highest order.
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  16. @ dunholm1 'Though factually true on paper, it will never happen, and the statement smacks of yet more scaremongering.' Brexiters engage in Doublethink. I find it odd that Brexiters feel that Ireland should know its place and remember that it will be harmed by Brexit if there is no deal, while at the same time, the UK will somehow be spared any problems and to suggest otherwise is simply scaremongering. But then it is also the case that there are Brexiters who will simultaneously hold the opposing truths that the EU is turning into a Superstate AND that the EU is falling a part. I guess that is what living in the Brexit bubble creates, and in fact has informed the UK negotiating position: Remember when you were told with almost certainty that the EU would come begging? Remember when you were told that the timetabling would be 'the row of the summer'? Remember when you were told that we wouldn't pay a thing? Remember when Liam Fox insisted this would be the simplest deal in history? 'yet more scaremongering' indeed.
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  17. @ dunholm1 No, there you don't have it. The EU are changing nothing, Brexit is British policy not an EU one. Apparently, the Brexit project, based as it is on some outdated 19th century binary nationalism and fuelled by notions of returning to some mythical prie-EU Idyl, is worth the price no matter the cost. The difference is, Brexiters will not acknowledge ANY cost for Brexit, dismissing any discussion as project fear. Apparently, Brexit will wreck the European economy but no cost will be acknowledged for the British economy by Brexiteers. 'Brexit Doublethink'. Why you think the EU can negotiate with a government that is still negotiating with itself, is not clear from you post. The EU will not undermine the SM or the CU in order to meet the needs of an incoherent English nationalism. Expecting it to do so is stupid. Brexit is stupid.
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  18. 'The main beneficiary of the EU is Germany, and it has grown rich while other nations suffer debt, poverty and huge unemployment, particularly among the young.' The British built an empire on this model, and to this day the British celebrate it. Why the hang-up about the Germans? Most EU members have made a success of EU membership, only the UK and Greece have messed it up.
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  19. When was the Queen voted in?
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  20. You have already lost, Maurice.
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  21. Trigger it and you will bring Brussels and Washington down on you. Remember Suez...
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  22.  @garyoconnor8614  He's an early school leaver. He left after the first day.
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  23. Ireland made the decision to be on its own a hundred years ago.
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  24. I'm surprised the UK continues to shoot its mouth off.
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  25. Why would the EU support a third country over a member state? The Irish did not vote to put a border between itself and the EU. Go to WTO - that would be fun to watch. You know its run by unelected bureaucrats right?
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  26.  @MrJoecool9999  Communism seeks the destruction of the Capitalist system. Please explain to how EU have managed that. Cheers.
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  27. Of course trade between Ireland and Britain is 'a thing'. Ireland, the 6th biggest beef exporter globally, exports 50% of it to the UK; the UK sells twice as much stuff to the Irish than it sells to China, Russia, Brazi and India combined.
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  28. I'm sorry. What?
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  29. @ dunlolm This is more 'Brexit Doublethink'. Part of the reason for Brexit is the apparent interminable length of time it takes for the EU to negotiate a deal. It begs the question as to why people like you parrot the old Brexit line that any deal with the EU could be 'simplest deal in history'. It is a remarkable exercise in Doublethink. The Japanese know how to negotiate: their expectations are realistic, they understand the limitations within which the EU is negotiating and they don't think they are special. I assume you think that no British jobs will be lost because of Brexit? This would be logical in the mind of a Bexiter - only the EU will lose jobs, while the UK will be immune to reality. 3 million jobs in a market of 400 million is worth the sacrifice to protect the Single Market and the Custom Union. 'Project fear' is in the process of becoming reality, and this will reach its zenith when you exit without a trade deal - the only country in the world without one, as far as I know. Have you begun hording food yet?
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  30. Oh please, stop with the Brexiter victimisation nonsense. The UKs demands are not conducive to a deal, and your argument fails to acknowledge that Canada and Japan were never members of the EU with economies that are closely integrated with other EU states. Furthermore, the UK does not want a deal like the Norwegians have because the UK does not want to cough up any cash for their enhanced third country access, nor do they want a deal like the Canadians have because the Canadians don't have enough market access...the UK wants to dictate its terms without regard to the values of the EU or existing EU treaties - in two years. Oh and it wants out of the ECJ - but not out of the aviation agreements that are underpinned by it etc. Finally, because the UK is still fighting with itself over what type of Brexit they voted for in June 2016, the EU has nobody to negotiate with. How is it the EUs fault? Do you people take not responsibility for anything now? It is too late for a realistic deal now. It is likely now the the UK will leave without a deal or with some sort of last minute fudge that leaves it as an actual vassal of the EU. Any talk of the consequences of a no deal Brexit is of course taboo. Brexit is stupid.
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  31. All countries in the EU have had economic difficulties since joining, but all countries have a higher standard of living today than they had before EU membership. The Greeks lied about everything and should never have been admitted to the EU never mind the Euro, the Italians have been nursing a huge national debt since before they joined the Euro, and Cyprus was exposed to the Greek collapse and eurozone crisis Spain, Italy and Cyprus all had growth rates higher than that of the UK in 2017. France has a higher GDP per capita than the UK, while the Italians are just behind the UK. Why do these countries not want to leave? Why do the Greeks not want to leave - they almost begged not to be thrown out of the Eurozone. Unlike the UK, none of these countries are planning to leave the EU. One wonders what you point is... 'Did you watch the World Cup and see all those people cheering on their country's teams? That's the "nationalism" you seem to despise, and no amount of self-serving EU political dogma will change it.' I seem to despise, it do I? I love it. I love people celebrating their national identity in peace and friendship. The EU does much to foster the notion of maintaining national identity in this manner asking only that members citizens adopt a common EU identity alongside it. The English lack the confidence to entertain such a notion and have instead demonised the entity in order to distract from decades of bad economic and social policies. The idea that the membership of the EU is a challenge to national identity is as ridiculous in the context of the UK where national identities survive despite also sharing British identity. Poland and Hungary don't define the EU. Every member of the EU has its beef with the bloc, but the UK is the only country planning - or not planning actually - to leave. Apparently, Brexit will be a disaster for the EU, while the UK will remain unscathed if everyone would only just believe in it enough. Are you stocking food and medicine yet? Brexit is stupid.
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  32. The English should grow a pair and become independent of the EU and the UK.
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  33. Sorry, Ireland would be not be that stupid. Ireland is the 'big dog' in this fight, because it has 27 nations behind it, while the UK is the 'small dog'. The situation would reverse if it went on a solo run with the UK which is governed by liars and charlatans. The Irish don't trust the UK under Brexiters.
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  34. The Brexit English are the one who couldn't care less about the people of Ireland. People outside the Brexit bubble will not be fooled by Tory mendacity a easily as you are.
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  35. @ Archie Andrews Why would anyone in the EU require a UK passport? What advantage would there be in having one, if you qualified for one in the first place? Serious question.
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  36. I don't think Brexiters feel that normal rules apply to them.
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  37. Make sure you get your Irish passport first though.
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  38. Oh please, everything was fine until the Brexit vote. It is Brexiters who are destabilising Northern Ireland and nobody else.
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  39. You know the EU can object to your WTO schedule, right? You that if the EU does not object to it, Ireland and/or France will right?
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  40. That will bring down the wrath of Brussels an especially Washington. Remember Suez...
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  41. Northern Ireland is in the Single Market and it is governed by rules. The UK will obey those rules, as the UK signed up for them. A recent poll (October) conducted by the University of Liverpool indicates strong support for the NIP in Northeren Ireland, even among the unionist community.
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  42.  @MrJoecool9999  You did, once you claimed the EU was communist - because it the keystone belief of Communism: the destruction of the capitalist system.
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  43. Clearly this is false. if the Irish have made a success of Brexit is clearly because it ceased riding in the back of the UK. If it had done as you suggest, its economy would as disappointing to the Irish as the British economy is to the British. Ireland has reduced its exposure to the UK economy and continues to do so. The EU is not bitter you are leaving. It is merely watching on the sidelines as the Tory party wastes time fighting with itself instead of negotiating with the big boys. That wasting of precious time is resulting in frustration.
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  44. I don't mention your other points because they are irrelevancies
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  45. I have no dispute with them. Would you like me to dispute them? Is there a point I am missing? Or are you just a poor communicator?
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  46. Well great. Are we done? Or do you have anything to add?
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  47. No, you've cornered that market, clearly.
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  48. The EU became aware of this in 2017 and upped their security. It is quite apparent that GCHQ is playing no part in negotiations as the UK is as weak and as clueless as ever.
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  49. @ 666 Viking1 It was predicted in the Irish media before Christmas, that the next stage in the Brexit delusion would be 'imminent' Irish exit of the EU, and that this would solve the UKs problem. Can you point me towards the reports pointing towards an Irish exit of the EU being a 'distinct possibility'? I would be very curious to read it.
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  50. I know! He's a fuckwit. The problem with him is the doesn't know Ireland's place.
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  51. Aaron, Why did Ireland vote against against Nice and Lisbon first time round? Why would SF become pro-EU in an Ireland that was against the EU - if indeed, that is what you are arguing?
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  52. The View from outside the Brexit bubble: - You are not a economic vassal of the EU yet, this status may well befall you at the end of March, 2019 if the UK finally fudges and settles for a half-in, half-out deal with the EU. This will be a great humiliation, a true 'facepalm' moment, but will surely herald the beginning of the end of the Brexiter tendency to know the cost everything and the value of nothing in relation to the EU. Or maybe they will just blame somebody else. Of course you may leave without any deal, in which case you will easy prey for those seeking a deal with the UK: the POTUS will put America first; Brazil will do the same. You will be rule takers, not rule makers, forced to take what you can get from a position of weakness. The Yanks have already told you this and there is sweet FA you can do about it. Taking back control? Brexit is stupid.
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  53. Yeah, right. The Institute for Government, a think-tank in London, notes that all big countries have bilateral agreements on such trade-facilitating measures as customs co-operation, data exchange and standards. Imagine, ifthe World's fifth largest economy exited the EU with no deal? Hosuk Lee-Makiyama of ECIPE, a Brussels-based think-tank, says that only seven countries trade with the EU on WTO terms alone—and they are small fry like Western Sahara, South Sudan, Cuba and Venezuela. The UK will be joining this merry band of economic powerhouses. In any case, reverting to WTO rules is not simple. The UK was a founder of the organisation but now belongs as an EU member. To resume WTO membership independently will require a division of EU import quotas, notably for beef, lamb and butter - I believe this may be happening again at the moment. A first effort was roundly rejected by big food exporters like Brazil, Argentina, the US and even New Zealand. The WTO proceeds by consensus among its 164 members. Were Britain to leave the EU on acrimonious terms, negotiating its resumption of full WTO membership could be difficult. Brexiteers say trade with third countries would be easier. Perhaps, but the EU has free-trade deals with some 60 countries, including South Korea and Mexico, and just recently, Japan. It will not be easy for the UK to “grandfather” these deals, especially if it has walked out with no deal, if only because doing so would need EU agreement, too. Then there is the WTO’s “most-favoured-nation” rule, which bars discrimination unless it is allowed by a fully registered free-trade deal. If after no deal the UK and the EU wanted bilateral trade to stay tariff-free, both sides would have to offer the same privileges to all WTO members. Services are barely covered by WTO rules, but even here, were Britain to seek to keep trade in services, the same terms would have to be given to several countries with which the EU has free-trade deals, including Canada. Subjection to WTO rules might yet prove more problematic than Brexiteers realise. The UK does not need to reapply to the WTO on leaving the EU as the UK is a member in its own right, though currently operating through the bloc. The UK’s detailed WTO commitments on tariffs and barriers to trade are set out in schedules shared with the EU. On Brexit, the UK will need to have its own schedules and for those schedules to be certified, there must be no objections by any other WTO members. We can speculatethat the ability of any member of the WTO to veto proposed changes would mean the UK was at the mercy of countries playing politics with ulterior motives, say by Argentina over the Falklands or by Spain over Gibraltar. Or of course the EU themselves in the event of a no deal. As such, the WTO is another ironic example of a process supposedly about “taking back control” handing real power of the UK’s post-Brexit fate to the whims of outside powers. Brexit is that stupid. It is the greatest exercise in national self-harm since the Easter Islanders cut down their last tree, but I will not speculate as to the social, economic, political and constitutional implications of this farce, as this is taboo. You have little to be worrying about with regard to Continental perceptions of the UK. You should be reminded of the English taste for heroic failure instead. Retreats and disasters loom large in your culture, from Balaclava to Dunkirk to Scott of the Antarctic, the Somme, the list goes on and on. Kipling hints to the English cult of 'heroic failure' when he stated in 'If' that 'triumph and disaster are the same thing'. Brexit follows in this rich tradition. What a clusterf*ck.
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  54. Obama was not born in Ireland to an Irish mother, you complete moron.
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  55. The US has instructed the UK to implement the NIP 'in full', which is whey Frost bottled it. There will be no border in Ireland, it will be in the Irish Sea where a majority in Northern Ireland are happy to see it.
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  56. @ ikm64 I'm referring to UK passports - perhaps you responded to the wrong person.
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  57. @Charles - From Project Camelot And what about the English and their 800 year hatred of the Europeans? When are they going to grow up? They are the only country in Europe not over the Second World War and 'the Germans', and they were on the winning side! Northern Ireland was peaceful, and relatively normal by its standards until Brexit came along. Brexit destroys the constructive ambiguity of the GFA in Northern Ireland - there has to be a winner and a loser, there can not be two winners with the UK outside the EU.
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  58.  @clancywiggam  You're probably right. They got their history from comic books in the 60s and 70s.
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  59. The UK needs to join the Single Market once again.
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  60. @L A Ballard Joining the Single Market is just a matter of time.
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  61.  What?  If Ireland 'is no way powerful'. how weak must the UK be?
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  62.  Steve Jakubowski  Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom. It voted to stay in the EU. As part of the departure from the EU, Northern Ireland was allowed to stay inside the EU single market and customs union for trade purposes. This means there is a customs and regulatory border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. This means more paperwork and it is having an impact of deliveries to supermarkets in Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK.
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  63.  Steve Jakubowski  Nobody sees it as retribution. It is a consequence of moving goods between two different customs areas after it was previously frictionless - it is new to everyone. It appears the British are not as well prepared as they should have been also.
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  64.  Steve Jakubowski  You're welcome.
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  65. Precisely. That is why they will leave.
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  66. ????
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  67. Ireland is trying to solve its English question.
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  68. You really fit stereotype of the thick Brexiter.
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  69.  @johnt4768  Throughout the Brexit 'negotiations', without doubt.
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  70.  @johnt4768  The EU never bottled it. It is important for your media to construe any concession from the EU...indeed anything at all... as evidence of the EU 'bottling it', but the fact is, the EU has the UK on a short leash, and everybody knows it. Frosty knew it, which is why he bailed. The UK is the big bottler. It has bottled triggering article 16 for example, the threats to do so now are much more low key and for internal consumption. Last October the EU and the US told the UK that any plan to trigger article 16 would result in an immediate response, so the UK pretended it never wanted to trigger article 16 in the first place. The UK bottled putting up a border with Ireland on 1st January. This is because the UK cannot feed itself and needs Ireland more than Ireland needs the UK. If the UK wanted to do the right thing because the UK loves and cares about Ireland it would have stayed in the Single Market, preventing the need for the NIP. But we know where Brexiter priorities lie, don't we. In that context you have a bit of neck to criticise the motives of other stakeholders. Finally, the three leafed shamrock, not the four leafed clover is the symbol for Ireland....
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  71. Brexiters are the middle Americans of Europe. Haven't you heard?
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  72. Hardly.
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  73. You can't get Lucky Charms outside of the United States.
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  74. Actually, English nationalism is working giving Northern Ireland to Ireland - and the neither the unionists nor the nationalists are ready for unity yet.
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  75. Yeah, but since the advent of devolution you're not really one nation anymore are you? Brexit takes no account for Scotland or Northern Ireland wishing to remain - for this there will be consequences for the United Kingdom in the future. Who will leave first?
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  76. I completely accept the result. I also accept that the decision was stupid leading to the predictable situation the UK find itself in now. I accept that for this democratic brain fart there will be consequences for the UK constitutionally. Don't you accept this also?
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  77. Really? Got a WTO schedule yet?
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  78. Oh I'm over it - I've got the popcorn and I'm ready for you lot to fall on your...to leave. So - tell me all about your WTO schedule....
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  79.  Leroy Jenkins Alpha  Wonderful delusion thanks for the laugh on a Friday morning!
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  80.  Leroy Jenkins Alpha  Nope. Ireland is part of the EU, Ireland is part of the big dog. The UK is the little dog.
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  81.  Leroy Jenkins Alpha  Yes, Ireland is tiny, but no, the EU is not 'just and organisation'. If it was 'just an orgnanisation' you wouldn't have left it - or have you forgotten? Ireland's position is amplified by the EU, as is the position of every member state. Unless the UK is planning to invade the EU, I fail to see how the UKs military prowess plays any role in this. The EU remains the big dog and the UK the little one in this fight. For a country that is 'nowhere on the global stage', Irish diplomacy has wiped the floor with its British counterpart since 2016...
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  82.  Leroy Jenkins Alpha  An inability to face reality is a characteristic of Brexit - I understand.
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  83.  Leroy Jenkins Alpha  So it is a delusion that the EU is the big dog in this fight? 450 million and 27 nations v 67 million Britons, and the Irish with the support Washington...??
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  84. @L A Ballard I'm perfectly grown, thanks.
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  85. You'd swear the UK had signed an internationally biding treaty the way they are going on.
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  86. Really Robert? You think you have a snowballs chance in hell of getting some kind of better deal?
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  87.  @lucamarino1226  I will happen because the Americans instructed their client state not to screw up the peace agreement they helped create. Its down to the UK and Frost now to construct a face saving exercise and get it done.
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  88. You need more English lessons mate.
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  89. You need more English lessons fuckwit.
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  90. Nope. Ireland has an independent foreign policy, it can do what it likes. If it suited both countries to have US airbases in Ireland, then that would happen.
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  91. @ Harry Baker The IndyRef on Scottish independence was made before Brexit, as was the poll regarding NI remaining in the UK. Brexit is a game-changer.
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  92. This comment is typical of the kind of delusions that afflict Brexiters, the WHO should recognise it as a genuine mental disability. The EU will be relevant to the UK for also long as the UK lasts. You cannot ignore the huge economic and political bloc on your doorstep, and you will be forever influenced by decisions it makes without being able to shape them. Germany does not run the EU - one of the great myths of Brexit. The UK is in conflict with the EU, not the other way round. It is the UK that is trying wriggle out of an internationally binding agreement, not the EU. 27 European nations have had enough of the playacting now, and it is clear that if the UK triggers Article 16 Brussels and Washington will take action.
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