Brexit

Glowy69 wrote:If someone can provide me with any form of optimism or positivity ref brexit ill gladly apologise

Blue passports?

Trading deals with Ghana instead of Germany, Samoa instead of Spain and Fiji instead of France?

Fish?

well thats alright then i love fish
fish

Moggy wrote:

Glowy69 wrote:If someone can provide me with any form of optimism or positivity ref brexit ill gladly apologise

Blue passports?

Trading deals with Ghana instead of Germany, Samoa instead of Spain and Fiji instead of France?

Fish?

Apparently being 35 means I cant call people that have voted to chuck our country off a cliff mongs.

Moggy wrote:

Exclusive: Nigel Farage says he could stop paying licence fee after BBC reported he had 'blood on his hands'

Nigel Farage has threatened to stop paying his licence fee unless the BBC apologises for reporting that he had "blood on his hands" over the death of a Polish man in the wake of the EU referendum.

In an article for The Telegraph the former Ukip leader says that the "terrible slur" has caused him and his family "more misery than any other in my 25 years in politics".

He says that he lived "in fear of reprisal" and a "perpetual state of worry" as a result of the claim and will have "no option but to stop paying the BBC licence fee altogether" unless the corporation apologises.

He says: "This single report, because it opened the floodgates to other media, has caused my family and me more misery than any other in my 25 years in politics.

"At the time, I couldn’t even go out to buy a newspaper without abuse being hurled at me. All of us lived in fear of a reprisal. Bile overflowed on social media.”...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09 ... e-fee-bbc/

Poor Nigel. Imagine how terrible it must be to live in fear because some authority figures told untruths that could lead to people attacking you….

In this case it wasn't even an authority figure. John Sweeney interviewed some people in the area and one resident replied by saying Farage has blood on his hands. This was Joe Blogs giving their opinion, just as they do every day on LBC radio or weekly on Question Time. A case of being able to dish it out but unable to take it in return.

Fun fact. In the 50s there was consideration of inviting the various nations if Europe to join the Commonwealth as an alternative to the EU. This even went as far as talks taking place between the British and French Prime Ministers taking place in 1956 on the possibility of France joining the Commonwealth.

Imagine if that version of history had panned out.

Glowy69 wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Glowy69 wrote:If someone can provide me with any form of optimism or positivity ref brexit ill gladly apologise

Blue passports?

Trading deals with Ghana instead of Germany, Samoa instead of Spain and Fiji instead of France?

Fish?

Apparently being 35 means I cant call people that have voted to chuck our country off a cliff mongs.

That right ends at 34.

At 35 you must turn to the Daily Mail, start talking about "dem foreign types" and be fully behind the glorious revolution and reinvention of the United Kingdom.

Moggy wrote:

Glowy69 wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Glowy69 wrote:If someone can provide me with any form of optimism or positivity ref brexit ill gladly apologise

Blue passports?

Trading deals with Ghana instead of Germany, Samoa instead of Spain and Fiji instead of France?

Fish?

Apparently being 35 means I cant call people that have voted to chuck our country off a cliff mongs.

That right ends at 34.

At 35 you must turn to the Daily Mail, start talking about "dem foreign types" and be fully behind the glorious revolution and reinvention of the United Kingdom.

Just don't call them idiots or racists. They don't like being called out like that and report you. Then again Leavers dislike most other facts too.

Lagamorph wrote:Fun fact. In the 50s there was consideration of inviting the various nations if Europe to join the Commonwealth as an alternative to the EU. This even went as far as talks taking place between the British and French Prime Ministers taking place in 1956 on the possibility of France joining the Commonwealth.

Imagine if that version of history had panned out.

At one point there was serious consideration of France and the UK becoming one country.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6261885.stm

Moggy wrote:

Lagamorph wrote:Fun fact. In the 50s there was consideration of inviting the various nations if Europe to join the Commonwealth as an alternative to the EU. This even went as far as talks taking place between the British and French Prime Ministers taking place in 1956 on the possibility of France joining the Commonwealth.

Imagine if that version of history had panned out.

At one point there was serious consideration of France and the UK becoming one country.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6261885.stm

At one stage large chunks of both were one country.

That was the Plantagenet era I think.
Up to and after Agincourt.

Huge rambling post edit!

lex-man wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Lagamorph wrote:Fun fact. In the 50s there was consideration of inviting the various nations if Europe to join the Commonwealth as an alternative to the EU. This even went as far as talks taking place between the British and French Prime Ministers taking place in 1956 on the possibility of France joining the Commonwealth.

Imagine if that version of history had panned out.

At one point there was serious consideration of France and the UK becoming one country.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6261885.stm

At one stage large chunks of both were one country.

Well yeah, but I think we were talking about in the last 100 years or so.

I genuinely never knew that about France potentially joining the commonwealth.

Denster wrote:I'm surprised you're amused by it, Photek. Other than the uk - Ireland is the country that is going to be most directly affected by it.
You might end up not finding it funny at all depending on how things turn out. People hate uncertainty and currently the effect on borders between Ireland and the north is a major point of debate.

I don't think even I would find it that funny.

Going back to this for a second or two I think the general tone from Irish commentators when it comes to Brexit is exasperation at the attitudes of English, specifically English not British, brexiteers and Northern Irelands unionist brexiteers. Fintan O'Toole has written a lot of good stuff about brexit which I think nails the general mood better than most writers have managed.
Johnsons contribution at the weekend is the sort of guff that tends to irritate Irish commentators as it totally ignored the question of the Irish border which is the biggest issue for Ireland when it comes to Brexit. The complete lack of detail when it comes to the border a mere 18 months before the possible reintroduction of a hard border between the Republic and Northern Ireland has started to shift the tone from worry about the consequences of Brexit to more confrontational along the lines of "look you stupid bastards, we need detail about how you plan to handle the border issue and we need it now, quit waffling". That's being reflected in any conversations I have now about Brexit.
The nonsensical contributions from the likes of Jeffrey Donaldson are only accelerating the souring of relations.

That's my point I think. It's a huge issue for Ireland to sort out.

I wouldn't be remotely amused by it.

bear wrote:

Denster wrote:I'm surprised you're amused by it, Photek. Other than the uk - Ireland is the country that is going to be most directly affected by it.
You might end up not finding it funny at all depending on how things turn out. People hate uncertainty and currently the effect on borders between Ireland and the north is a major point of debate.

I don't think even I would find it that funny.

Going back to this for a second or two I think the general tone from Irish commentators when it comes to Brexit is exasperation at the attitudes of English, specifically English not British, brexiteers and Northern Irelands unionist brexiteers. Fintan O'Toole has written a lot of good stuff about brexit which I think nails the general mood better than most writers have managed.
Johnsons contribution at the weekend is the sort of guff that tends to irritate Irish commentators as it totally ignored the question of the Irish border which is the biggest issue for Ireland when it comes to Brexit. The complete lack of detail when it comes to the border a mere 18 months before the possible reintroduction of a hard border between the Republic and Northern Ireland has started to shift the tone from worry about the consequences of Brexit to more confrontational along the lines of "look you stupid bastards, we need detail about how you plan to handle the border issue and we need it now, quit waffling". That's being reflected in any conversations I have now about Brexit.
The nonsensical contributions from the likes of Jeffrey Donaldson are only accelerating the souring of relations.

Hey, dont just blame the English. Blame the Welsh too.

Lagamorph wrote:

bear wrote:

Denster wrote:I'm surprised you're amused by it, Photek. Other than the uk - Ireland is the country that is going to be most directly affected by it.
You might end up not finding it funny at all depending on how things turn out. People hate uncertainty and currently the effect on borders between Ireland and the north is a major point of debate.

I don't think even I would find it that funny.

Going back to this for a second or two I think the general tone from Irish commentators when it comes to Brexit is exasperation at the attitudes of English, specifically English not British, brexiteers and Northern Irelands unionist brexiteers. Fintan O'Toole has written a lot of good stuff about brexit which I think nails the general mood better than most writers have managed.
Johnsons contribution at the weekend is the sort of guff that tends to irritate Irish commentators as it totally ignored the question of the Irish border which is the biggest issue for Ireland when it comes to Brexit. The complete lack of detail when it comes to the border a mere 18 months before the possible reintroduction of a hard border between the Republic and Northern Ireland has started to shift the tone from worry about the consequences of Brexit to more confrontational along the lines of "look you stupid bastards, we need detail about how you plan to handle the border issue and we need it now, quit waffling". That's being reflected in any conversations I have now about Brexit.
The nonsensical contributions from the likes of Jeffrey Donaldson are only accelerating the souring of relations.

Hey, dont just blame the English. Blame the Welsh too.

Bristol voted to remain so don't blame me.

Blame those Cornish banana splits.

Coming over here on their surfboards.Selling ice cream and gooseberry fool.

Any conservative that's on RTE Radio 1 ends up extremely confrontational. Imagine if James O'Brien was interviewing them to get an idea. Every answer is fact checked.

Lucien wrote:

Glowy69 wrote:

Lucien wrote:

Glowy69 wrote:strawberry float every leaver. strawberry floating bunch of mongs.

What is your problem? You're 35.

What is my problem? My problem is that because of a stupid mis informed referendum, the country is facing being worse off for quite a while, removed from the single largest trading bloc in the world and my son growing up in a country that deemed themselves too good for the EU.

Thats just part of it. If someone can provide me with any form of optimism or positivity ref brexit ill gladly apologise, until then, my opinion stands.

People's (personal) political opinions have to align with yours or they can get strawberry floated. I don't think you realise how immature you are.

They should align with reality though.
Leavers opinions do not. If they did they wouldn't be Leavers.