Surely this mess will ensure Ireland is reunified quicker than ever and the rest of UK's promises not worth the paper they're written on.

Surely this mess will ensure Ireland is reunified quicker than ever and the rest of UK's promises not worth the paper they're written on.

 

I can't even begin to say I understand Irish politics, but unification at some point within my lifetime feels inevitable imo. But cannot see it in the short term.

 

What I will say, is just proof in the pudding this Brexit deal was a crock of shit.

As an Irish nationalist and someone who believes Ireland should never have been divided up again by conservative and unionist interests in the early 20th century (they changed the rules of democracy when they couldn’t win) I think unity is inevitable.

 

Brexit is just another example of how Westminster and UK government doesn’t work for the people in Ireland because we are simply a different country and it doesn’t understand our needs. It’s just one big example and the famine is another from a different era. Westminster rules for the south of England and that is it.

 

But unionists believe they are British ethnically, socially and culturally and you can’t just take that away from them. But the fact they still look to Britain is quite numerous for me as Britain doesn’t care less.

 

The biggest annoyance is how Johnson has played games with the GFA which brought peace to our streets after 30 years of mayhem just to again satisfy southern English Toryism.

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Brexit is just another example of how Westminster and UK government doesn’t work for the people in Ireland because we are simply a different country and it doesn’t understand our needs. It’s just one big example and the famine is another from a different era. Westminster rules for the south of England and that is it.

 

Well, I’m hoping that a significant portion of the South (Surrey, Oxfordshire, South West) do turn away from Tories at next election. It’s the North and Midlands towns we have to watch for.

 

But agree with broader point - Tories are completely attacking or ignoring the needs of Europhiles, women, LGBT, non whites, theyoung, environmentalists, the poor, the disabled, Scots, Welsh, Irish, academia, renters and several types of business. We would hope their constituency gets so low they are thrown out sooner rather than later, despite their efforts to fix the system.

 

In a radio interview today, Leave-supporting Health Secretary Sajid Javid demanded to know why problems at airports were confined to the UK. Anyone got any ideas?

AMS is also a complete f***ing mess right now to the point that KLM are flying out of AMS fully loaded but returning empty planes because they can’t cope. (BER is also a mess but that is for it’s own disfunctional reasons like shite design and moronic staff. )

 

 

The UKs issues lightly irritate me because the Gov has turned full barrels on the aviation industry that it refused to support at all during covid. This was a logical consequence. Especially with their confusing and expensive and illogical approach to reopening travel because of some illusion of a controlled border that was leakier than a chocolate teapot full of hot water standing in the full sun in the middle of the Sahara.

 

 

 

For once I think a form of border chaos is not Brexit related :o like for example Manchester has always been a complete joke of an airport and it’s all down to the Home Office. Theres not enough border guards, they’re too slow to process the paperwork and background checks for staff to work security (and sure the airports run security too lean as well) and that’s the root cause ultimately. Since brexit I have noticed no changes at the UK borders. It’s in Europe that I feel the pain

Both before and after Brexit Ive found getting Spain simple and rapid, the longer queues are back in the UK as they seem more suspicious of Brits returning home than the Spanish are of Brits arriving on holiday, same with going through your baggage to chuck out an outsized bottle of suncream or some CD's that contain "animal products" before a flight, or picking on the scruffier presented people coming home to check suitcases. Because as we all know people who smuggle cash, fags, drugs etc always dress like a scruffbag so that they can be easily spotted by customs officers.

 

Re Brexit, I think we'll find it was the working class that voted for it in big numbers, a bit pissed off at the number of Polish builders living in every community. The well-educated, better off tended to be better-informed and less-gullible.

Grant Shapps, the actual Transport Secretary is suggesting that motorists should be able to drive lorries up to 7.5 tons without an additional test. What could possibly go wrong?

Some of the things mr shapps says come over as a bit errr can we say, not necessarily thought out. In the same way that a big red button to trigger a nuclear explosion with a huge sign exclaiming DO NOT PRESS next to it and a behaviourly challenged 8 year old locked alone in a room with said red button might not necessarily be thought out.

The gift that truly keeps on giving.

 

 

My bank, who i have been with since 2019, refuse to let me even enquire about financial services such as a loan online because I am not an EU national.

 

 

Also because I have been stripped of residence rights and am not classed as a temporary resident until I qualify for Permanent Residency (5 years), I am only able to get a mortgage of 35k. My annual net f***ing salary is more than that. If I was an EU National or a German or a PR, I could get 340k.

 

 

Its like death by 1000 paper cuts. all these tiny really irritating inconveniences, just so that haunted victorian pencil could have a bonfire of employment rights.

Lots of talk about a Swiss style deal for the UK over the next 10 years (although I thought the EU hated this complexity?).

 

The tide does appear to be turning and really do think some big change will happen in the next 5 years.

Lots of talk about a Swiss style deal for the UK over the next 10 years (although I thought the EU hated this complexity?).

 

The tide does appear to be turning and really do think some big change will happen in the next 5 years.

 

 

Well it’s not been confirmed by the government yet but I do think the Brexit situation will be reviewed particularly if Labour are elected in terms of the current deal.

Interesting headline in The Observer about a "secret" cross-party summit regarding the failings of Brexit.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-64614161

 

Hoping it might mean an eventual shift closer to the EU, particularly after the next election when the Tories should no longer be in power.

Liz Truss (remember her?) has called for an "economic NATO". I'm broadly in favour of that although I think the USA should be excluded as their economy swamps the rest. Logically, then, it would be restricted to European countries (sorry Canada). It would, of courser, need a name. How about European Union?

I’d agree with cooperation but not with being told how to run the rest of the country tbf!

Liz Truss (remember her?) has called for an "economic NATO". I'm broadly in favour of that although I think the USA should be excluded as their economy swamps the rest. Logically, then, it would be restricted to European countries (sorry Canada). It would, of courser, need a name. How about European Union?

 

:lol:

 

Ahh a lack of fresh produce, another wonderful benefit of Brexit.

I’d agree with cooperation but not with being told how to run the rest of the country tbf!

When was the UK ever told by the EU how to run the country?

Never :lol: Although thr country would be in much better straits rn if the EU, ans not the evil Tories, actuslly HAD ruled us the last ten years!

Ahh a lack of fresh produce, another wonderful benefit of Brexit.

 

What fresh produce can you not get??