IREXIT.

[vinty]

A new party was launched in Dublin last week ,it is called the Irish Freedom party.
Nigel Farage was there to meet with its leader Herman Kelly ,this is an extremely interesting development.
The party is dedicated to getting the Republic out of the EU , interference in Irish politics by the EU is causing a lot of resentment and now that the Republic is a net contributor to the EU some people are starting to question the value of membership.

 

[transam]

It is said that 57% of all Irish exports to the EU come through the UK

They may have a problem if there is no deal ???

 

[vinty]

If there is no deal the Irish economy will come off worse than the UK , it isn't just Irish exports to the UK , Irish exports to Europe are also routed though British ports.
If their exports are held up or tariffed at points of entry to the UK their economy will go tits up.
It would be better for the Republic to leave the EU and join some arrangement with the UK.
The EU are only using the Republic as a pawn to extract concessions from the UK.

 

[noseall]

The EU

Did they ask us to leave or force us to leave?

Silly me - we chose to leave and all the shoite that goes with it..

 

[Bodd]

Did they ask us to leave or force us to leave?

Silly me - we chose to leave and all the shoite that goes with it..

Why do you go on about this... We all know we chose to leave

 

[JohnD]

we

You may have done.

About a third voted to leave, about a third voted to stay. Not a satisfactory result.

Nobody knew what they were voting for, and even today, nobody knows what they will get.

 

[Bodd]

Silly me - we chose to leave and all the shoite that goes with it..

Nosey said we. I just used his words

 

[ellal]

Aand now that the Republic is a net contributor to the EU some people are starting to question the value of membership.

And yet quite happy to receive money when their economy was s hite!

Funny thing that

 

[Roger928]

a satisfactory result.

Indeed. 17,410,742 voted leave. Largest turn out of the electorate ever.
Roll on no deal.

 

[JohnD]

this is an extremely interesting development.

Wrong.

 

[vinty]

Why do you care?

Because it could solve the "Irish border problem" .

 

[vinty]

How? There would still be two different countries with a shared border.
Both UK and RoI were in the EU when the border was removed.
It was never removed before when neither RoI nor UK were not in EU.

The Irish border was never removed so what is all the fuss about, the amount of trade between North and South is tiny compared to the amount of trade between the Republic and Britain, so if a hard border is erected it will affect All the points of entry into the UK not just N.I.

 

[vinty]

Why should the border in Ireland be contentious,any infrastructure on the border previously was for security purposes and had nothing to do with the EU.
In the event of a no deal scenario do you really believe all entry points from the EU into the UK apart from N.I. will be irrelevant.
Will there only be choke points at the N.I. border while all other traffic to and from the EU will be running smoothly as if nothing had changed.

 

[durhamplumber]

If you solve “The Irish problem”,The Irish will find another problem!

 

[^woody^]

The Irish PM has been a right gobby ****e over the past few months with his demands and telling us what is and is not acceptable to them.

I'd go for a no deal just on that basis alone, as they will lose out massively. And we should have made that fact more vocally and it may have just focused his mind and closed his mouth