Comments by "Drew Hodge" (@drewhodge3820) on "EU Debates | eudebates.tv" channel.

  1. The EU project is broken. Brussels doesn't work for the normal hard working people living inside the EU.
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  2.  @Julian-ux5xd  Just because the system works for a small minority of people, that does not mean the EU leaders in Brussels work for the best interests of the 460 million people living in the block. Was your job working in social media to promote Brussels? (On the EU's payroll)
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  3. Self inflicted challenges due to Brussels failure to act in a prompt manner. Where is the transparency? Why did Brussels block EU counties ordering the vaccines and Why did the EU take 3 months longer to place orders? The whole world is watching.
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  4. Barnier is the best at making threats on twitter.
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  5. Look at the EU controlled media/press run around to take pointless pictures. All staged propaganda. Why does the EU Commission have a fake flag? The EU is not a country.
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  6. The EU has not ratified the Brexit deal.
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  7.  @joeletaxi7956  What a total load of tosh. The EU had no choice but to back track after they tried to put up a hard border in Ireland. After the ROI and NI and the UK told them to back off ASAP. In regards to the UK-EU trade deal the EU has decided to interpret the trade deal to inflict disruption the same as the EU commission attempt to change the rules on UK shellfish exports. The EU commission suddenly decided to change it mind. After they initially said there wouldn't be a problem. So yes the EU moved the goal posts and yes it's about to backfire on the EU commission AGAIN.
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  8.  @Armasnipe  Why is it that Sad Remoaner Morons think blasting everyone is going to change anything. Brexit is done. You won't change that Fact. You won't reverse Brexit. Move on with your life. You won't get the loopy Labour party in power or the Loopy Lib-Dems in power either. Not in the next decade. The more you scream and shout and attack people the more the vast majority of the general public of the UK will push back. That is why the Brexit Party was the largest political party in Brussels. That is why the Conservative Party has an 80 seat majority. That is why the UK will never rejoin the EU and that is why your rants are pointless. They do more damage to your cause than any political party could do. I'm not even a Conservative Party supporter. One thing is for certain, people have not forgotten Comrade Corbyn's Communist rants that destroyed the Labour party and many of their MPs are still pushing their Communist agenda on the public. Starmer is a big flat Zero. He backed Corbyn every step of the way is on the record as anti establishment and anti Royal. It was Starmer's idea to have a second Brexit referendum where the only choice was Remain and Remain. Thank goodness labour isn't in power because all the vaccines we would have paid for through the EU's joint medical procurements agency would mean the UK would be at the back of the queue.
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  9. Self inflicted challenges due to Brussels failure to act in a prompt manner. Where is the transparency? Why did Brussels block EU counties ordering the vaccines and Why did the EU take 3 months longer to place orders? The whole world is watching.
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  10. Too little too late. The EU is only usually interested in putting sanctions on Turkey.
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  11. More EU commission failure.
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  12. The EU hasn't even been recognised as a country. So i agree with you totally that the UK shouldn't and probably cant export to the EU for the simple fact that the EU is nothing more than a trade organization (a poorly run one at that)
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  13.  @brunobrauer6301  no the WA is part and parcel of the brexit agreement. Otherwise there is no point to the protocol. The EU already triggered Article 16. So pretending they are interested in Ireland (ROI and NI) is a joke. The WA clearly states trade between GB and NI cannot be hampered with. That is the UK's internal market. To do so risks the GFA. Which will always be more important than anything the EU can say or do.
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  14.  @wanderschlosser1857  The GFA is about both sides making an agreement that works and continues to work. The WA does not work for NI. So the GFA trumps the WA. The GFA came first and no new agreement can over ride it or change it. No matter how much spin Brussels tries to put on it.. It was the EU commission that triggered Article 16 in total disregard to the WA protocol and the GFA. So the EU has lost the moral high ground. Nothing Brussels says or does can undo that damage. They can make as many claims as they want in the ECJ kangaroo court. Both the ROI and NI wont stand for that nonsense. Yes it might remain a war of words but unless the EU shows some flexibility NI will void the WA in less than 5 years. Then there are two choices. A digital trade checks system or the ROI will leave the block. What ever happens the EU wont get its end game of removing NI from the UK. I dont see the ROI wanting to leaving the block any time soon, so it will be digital trade checks. Brussels opened a can of worms and while Mrs May was in charge they thought the UK (including NI) would just roll over. They never took into consideration the strength and pride and determination of the people living in the ROI and NI.
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  15. Oh let's pat the EU Commission on the back for threatening to trigger Article 16. What a joke.
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  16. So the UK pre-paid for AZ vaccines last year and the EU will allow those UK owned vaccines to be delivered to Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK. Thanks for giving the UK what it already owns.
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  17. Wouldn't it be better if the EU commission just stated clearly that mistakes were made and they were slow to react. Then state they are going to do everything possible to resolve the problem and help to increase vaccine production. There are many countries around the world that are desperate for these vaccinations and many of those countries outside the EU placed order with vaccine companies based in the EU. Making noise and making excuses and blaming other countries is just making things worse.
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  18. The UK ordered and Pre-paid for those vaccinations 3+ months before the EU finally got organised. This proves Brussels bureaucracy is a failure. Brussels actually stopped individual EU countries placing orders with AstraZeneca which delayed the production in Europe by 3 months. Now Brussels wants to jump the queue to cover up their failure to act. SHAME on Brussels, they will cost many lives lost. No one in Brussels is accountable for this tragic/horrific mistake. No one in Brussels will be punished. The EU/Brussels unelected leaders are a Dictatorship. The EU/Brussels are not a democracy. They work for themselves and not for the normal hard working people living in the EU.
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  19. EU commission failure. Blame everyone else in the world.
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  20. Scotland doesn't collect enough tax revenue to fund its spending on public services. Scotland has a 15 Billion black hole in their budget every year.
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  21.  @phoebus45  I think you will find nothing has been stolen. Scotland collects half a Billion in tax revenue from Gas and Oil. That leaves the SNP with an over spend of 15 Billion a years. Only some of that Oil and Gas tax revenue belongs to Scotland. Scotland collect the tax revenue because that is where the oil and gas is shipped/piped to. Dont forget the Scottish Isles have said they well vote to leave Scotland and become a Crown Dependence if Scotland votes to leave the UK. Leaving Scotland with Zero rights to north sea gas and oil. So your argument is null and void.
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  22. ​ @phoebus45  Your talking rubbish. The residents/owners of the Scottish Isles have stated very clearly they would break away from Scotland to become a Crown Dependence like Jersey and Guernsey, if Scotland voted to leave the UK. Scotland would lose it's access to 95% of it's fisheries and 100% of its rights to North Sea Oil & Gas and a lot of the renewable energy off shore. They would become the most wealth people in the UK over night. Why would you think anyone will believe your lies? Scotland doesn't own the Scottish Isles. LOL The SNP has a 15 Billion black hole in their budget every year. They spend 15 Billion more than the SNP/Scotland collects in taxes every year. That is using the SNP's/Scotlands own data. If your going to try and make things up, at least try to make them partially believable. LOL Since the 2014 Scots Referendum the SNP have racked up more than 100 Billion in over spending. Even before you consider the financial impact/cost of Covid (now and in the future) The SNP have been in power 14 years and racked up 300 Billion in over spending. That is Scotlands national debt that Scotland would have to repay to the rest of the UK. Dont forget Scotland cant raise loans using the UK Pound Sterling. That means Scotland would see a minimum 49% tax increase over 20+ years and public service spending would have to be slashed for 20 years before it came close to meeting the EU's criteria to join the block. Wave goodbye to free NHS and Benefits and State Pensions and free University Education. After 20 years of Scottish poverty would the EU ever let Scotland join the block? Do they want another Greece in the EU? Let's not forget most of Scotlands financial sector businesses will move to England. If they were going to move to the EU they would have already done it before the end of 2020. So it's going to take a lot more than 20 years for Scotland to clear it's national debt and start to balance the books. SNP fiction and lies wont pay the bills in Scotland.
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  23.  @phoebus45  Your say the SNP/Scotland had a choice in 2014 to have a referendum. You attempt to say the Scottish Isles dont have a right to vote for Independence? LOL
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  24.  @deadlydundee  Scotland can't borrow money. You don't have your own currency. Scotland just overspend English tax payers money. The SNP can't balance the books. Next you will attempt to say oli revenue from oil landed in Scotland but fail to mention 80% of that revenue is from English owned oil. Next you will attempt to state Scotlands financial sector which on mass will move to England the moment Scotland became independent. (Oh wait Scotland wouldn't be independent because it would be an EU slave member) The majority of valuable property in Scotland isn't owned by Scottish people. Got on mention scottish fish that actually belong to the Scottish Isles (Not the Scottish mainland) The Scottish Isles have clearly stated they would become a crown dependent. Happy to educate you further. I know you need education because the SNP have decimated the Scotlands education system. Do you need to learn about the Barnet formula? That is English tax payers money funding your public services. That was designed to run for 3 years and 15 years later English tax payers are still funding the SNP's financial failures.
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  25.  @wanderschlosser1857  Your talking about a hard border that checks the moment of people. A digital border that checks goods in commercial trucks is all that is needed to protect the EU's failed single market. P's there has been border checks on the Irish border for months due to Covid. What is the difference??? The EU is play politics but they started a fight with the Irish. That is a fight the EU cant win with their bonkers rules and regulations. The Irish dont fight with words and silly bits of paper with rules written on them. Its a fight the EU cant win.
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  26.  @wanderschlosser1857  This is a typical EU propaganda reply from you. You lost the argument and then you revert to fiction. It's only the EU that is obsessed with their single market. So it's an EU problem that they manufactured and it will be a problem the EU has to resolve. The WA will be null and void in less than 5 years. The EU Commission picked a fight with Ireland which will backfire on the EU. You can talk in circles (its the EU way) The GFA is the only important thing. The GFA came first and it over rides anything the EU says or does. Barnier used the peace process as a weapon against the UK. You can expect gold to rain from the sky. You wont get what you want or expect or demand. The EU triggered Article 16 and instantly lost the moral high ground. Now the UK is free to do what it wants.
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  27.  @wanderschlosser1857  The single market and the euro are tools to filter wealth and power to the larger and wealthier countries like France and Germany from the rest of the block. That is not sustainable long term and its coming to an end. Every year more than a Million people move/migrate to the EU but the GDP is shrinking? That means less money shared between more people (even before you consider natural population growth). The EU's combined Net exports were only 33 Billion a year before Brexit and Covid. To put that into perspective the UK spends 43 Billion a year on German built cars. Germany imports almost 1 Billion of cheap Chinese goods every single day of the year, which is distributed across the EU. That has destroyed every industry across the EU. The single market is not sustainable. Yes its good for German profits but not for everyone else. The single market Bubble is about to burst. Russia and China see blood in the water. The only question is which country will leave the EU next? Brussels made a power grab over the EU27 with their 700 Billion recovery fund and the German high court has blocked that for now at least. Lets not forget the UK has zero fee access to the single market. Yes there is now more paper work involved. EU countries are already looking to do direct trade deals with the UK.
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  28.  @wanderschlosser1857  You see once you start making up fiction, you lost my interest and lost my respect. As soon as you attempt to pass of fake info as fact. You lose your argument. Im all for people having different view points and ideals. Now you have wasted my time and yours. This is why a lot of people voted to leave the EU in 2016 because they were sick and tired of listening to lies from the Remain side. Which is why you lost the Brexit Referendum. Next you will revert back to insults. Dont waste your time thinking you will hurt my feeling.
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  29.  @plebius  That wasn't what i said. I clearly stated trade between NI & GB cannot be hindered under the terms of the WA. There have been border checks in the ROI for months due to Covid. The moment the EU made the announcement they triggered Article 16 because they didn't follow the protocol. The EU did a U-turn after all parties involved put the EU in their place. You clearly understand what happened by the tone of your argument. The UK has only paused the implementation until the problems are ironed out. This a perfectly routine action that takes place all the time with trade deals. Yes the EU loves to push their propaganda and we all know they love to make a sing and dance about their proposed legal action that takes years to start. The EU Commission have an average of 200 cases at any given time against its own EU member countries. A legal case with the complexities of the WA would take more than a decade. Just over 4 years time Northern Ireland has the right to vote for or against the WA. So the EU's threats of legal action is pointless noise. The bias BBC dont make me laugh. Who even watches the BBC? Let alone believes anything the BBC says.
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  30.  @plebius  The checks take place on the border. So they are border checks. They have been carried out constantly for many months and trying to defect that fact means your trying to mislead people. As soon as you try to push half truths as facts, you have lost your argument. Saying checks are taking place in other areas as well doesn't change there is border checks taking place on the Irish border on the side of the ROI. All under the banner of Covid checks but they are checking people ID. In effect its a hard border.
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  31.  @Armasnipe  No we have been listening to the constant threats from the EU commission for the past 5 years.
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  32. Too little too late.
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  33. Self inflicted challenges due to Brussels failure to act in a prompt manner. Where is the transparency? Why did Brussels block EU counties ordering the vaccines and Why did the EU take 3 months longer to place orders? The whole world is watching.
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  34. 9 Million shared between 450 Million people living in the EU. Is this on the same type of 12-18 month time scale the EU27 will wait for the Covid recovery funding?
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  35. What recovery Plan? You mean loans + Interest on those loans. Or the EU's terms and conditions (Power Grab) over it's member countries in exchange for access to the so called "recovery fund". How are these Green agenda loans going to help normal businesses recover from the financial impact of Covid over the past 18 months???
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  36. Self inflicted challenges due to Brussels failure to act in a prompt manner. Where is the transparency? Why did Brussels block EU counties ordering the vaccines and Why did the EU take 3 months longer to place orders? The whole world is watching.
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  37. Will someone please give VDL a chair. LOL .... No one ever lets her sit down... VDL is looking more and more like a spare part every day. Now they are keeping her busy by visiting different countries, in an attempt to justify her job.
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  38. @Spartacus Compared to WHAT? Labour or Lib Un-Democratic party, or your corrupt Brussels MEP's?
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  39. @Spartacus There is no need to talk about the failed/broken/corrupt EU project. 45 years and the combined EU's 27 countries Net Exports are only 33 Billion a year. Hardly a shining example of a trading block that was set up to be a trading block to compete with the world. Shrinking GDP year on year while over 1 Million more people move/migrate to the EU every year. More people sharing less money year on year on year. Next year the EU will instantly take a massive hit financially because the EU has spent 4 years hurling insults and threats towards the UK public and UK businesses. Why would the EU think the UK would want to carry on buying goods and services at the same rate/volume that we did before??? Especially without a Genuine Free Trade Agreement goods from the EU will cost 12-37% more than the same goods from outside te EU. None EU imports wont have to have EU tariffs on them which range from 10-80% which got sent to Brussels budget. Plus EU goods will be hit with WTO tariffs after the first 6 months of 2021. All import tariffs (EU & None EU) on imports will go directly to the UK to fund public services.
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  40.  @isacadc4552  Who has to repay the debt? There is always a cost to people. Debt incurs interest which the normal hard working people inside the EU have to repay. There isn't a magic money tree in Brussels or at the ECB.
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  41.  @mijicmugendo  I see you back to being a TROL and calling everyone a Liar, over and over again. How is the EU treating your home country Ireland ? I see they were just about to put up a hard border!!! How are you going to defend that action as a hardcore Irishman?
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  42.  @mijicmugendo  I see you back to being a TROL and calling everyone a Liar, over and over again. How is the EU treating your home country Ireland ? I see they were just about to put up a hard border!!! How are you going to defend that action as a hardcore Irishman?
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  43.  @mijicmugendo  I see you back to being a TROL and calling everyone a Liar, over and over again. How is the EU treating your home country Ireland ? I see they were just about to put up a hard border!!! How are you going to defend that action as a hardcore Irishman?
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  44.  @isacadc4552  They dont have fake national anthems like the EU does, Only a country can have a National anthem.
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  45. Self inflicted challenges due to Brussels failure to act in a prompt manner. Where is the transparency? Why did Brussels block EU counties ordering the vaccines and Why did the EU take 3 months longer to place orders? The whole world is watching.
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  46. The EU manufactured the mess in Ireland and now it's going to backfire on them. You can't mess with Ireland and expect to walk away.
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  47.  @GianniFrankis  Do you remember the EU triggering Article 16 and totally ignoring the protocol? That is when the unrest started again in Ireland. This has nothing to do with Brexit. Only a complete Moron would think that.
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  48. This bloke couldn't make porridge.
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  49. How is this news worthy? The UK was sending 300 Million every week to Brussels.
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  50. Yes the UK as part of Europe has funded the majority of vaccine export across the world through Covax because the UK has paid more into Covax than the EU.
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