Brexit Thread 3 - Project Reality

[Garth]

twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1527407803173838848

[Cheeky Devlin]

The timing of the last episode of Derry Girls couldn't have been more on point.

Celebration of the peace that the GFA brought to Northern Ireland while the Tories are on the very brink of tearing it all down for strawberry floating nothing.

Utterly shameless.

[OrangeRKN]

Is there a bigger failure of Brexit than the risk to peace in Northern Ireland?

It was a failure of the remain campaign to not make clear the consequences, but more broadly it was a failure of Westminster to properly consider Northern Ireland (both before and after the referendum) and a failure of both the English education system and English media in paying so little attention to Northern Ireland since the end of the Troubles.

As soon as the border issues came into the news the problem was so blatantly obvious, yet in the run up to the referendum it was only late into the campaign that I even heard mention of Northern Ireland, and to my own fault I had not considered any of that myself up until that point.

Was it just mistaken complacency in thinking even if the Brexit campaign did win, it would have to result in a soft Brexit? It all just seems so frustratingly avoidable, even more than the rest of the whole debacle.

[Rex Kramer]

The issue comes from the Leave campaign never actually detailing what Leave meant during the referendum. The issues we currently have are entirely down to leaving the customs union and the notion that might happen was roundly dismissed by Leavers at the time.

[Garth]

twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1526616040108605441

[Photek]

As a vocal supporter of Scottish Independence I wholeheartedly support this idea.

How would the DUP feel about the whole thing as technically the UK would just be made up of Scotland, NI and Wales for the remaining years it has before inevitably disolving into just 4 countries?

They wouldn't know which way to go.

The unionists and DUP in particular have somehow managed to push social and political discord towards a united Ireland.

It's the most impressive of own goals.

[Moggy]

twitter.com/bestforbritain/status/1527605638938955776

Wanker.

[Stugene]

twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1527407803173838848

what they gonna do, coup us?

[Photek]

We don't want an EU-UK Trade war - Irish PM

When asked at the World Economic Forum in Davos whether the EU was drawing up plans to apply tariffs to politically sensitive UK exports, Mr Martin declined to "get into the detail of anything like that, because hopefully, that's something we don't ever have to contemplate".

"For now I'm simply saying, and I've been consistently saying get down there, get into the tunnel, UK government and EU, negotiate and get the technocrats in there," he added.

When asked why at this time of rising inflation the EU was pondering such a move, the Irish prime minister said it was only the UK making threats.

"The only unilateral move that has been made here has been by the United Kingdom government, which has threatened to tear up an international deal signed with the European Union," he said.

"That's the only threat here. And that's what's happened."

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61583660

The comments below this are ludicrously stupid.

Also, small thing, but why do English people call Ireland 'Eire', no one over here calls it that unless we are speaking As gaeilge (in Irish).

[Moggy]

Also, small thing, but why do English people call Ireland 'Eire', no one over here calls it that unless we are speaking As gaeilge (in Irish).

Probably as an easy and quick way of writing it, without risking confusion with Northern Ireland.

[Green Gecko]

twitter.com/Conservatives/status/1222206827376652288

strawberry floating hell, the items on that shop (speaking as a merchandiser, mostly rip-offs), including this puzzle: https://shop.conservatives.com/boris-br ... uzzle.html



That tea towel has been taken down, probably from bad exposure.



Apt.

But there is a limited edition print, yours at half price for only £35:

https://shop.conservatives.com/limited- ... print.html

Imagine whatever banana split hangs this 1929 "historic" poster:

[Victor Mildew]

They told me they wouldn't use the image of my front room!

[Moggy]

Imagine whatever banana split hangs this 1929 "historic" poster:

strawberry float

[Errkal]

wowsers

[Victor Mildew]

I guess we now know who GG's mystery client is

[Fade]

If that merch isn't proof that politics is literally just "my team Vs your team" I don't know what is.

[Nibble]

Imagine whatever banana split hangs this 1929 "historic" poster:

They'll probably put it in a nice diptych with this:

[Herdanos]

Imagine whatever banana split hangs this 1929 "historic" poster:

strawberry float

1929 Tories: poster
2022 Tories: we've turned the lighthouse off to deter migrant boats and are looking to sell off the property and land to a developer - any interested applicants, please note we will only consider firms who pay an existing MP six figures per annum for 5 hrs consulting

[Green Gecko]

Imagine whatever banana split hangs this 1929 "historic" poster:

They'll probably put it in a nice diptych with this:

FACTS

What everyone is thinking but too afraid to say. Come on now. Don't be ashamed to be British.

[Balladeer]

Don't be ashamed to be British.

That's a tough ask at the moment.