Looks like the entirely myopic and self-interested Tory Party is coalescing in one grotesque fatty mass and voting for itself rather than anything even remotely in the national interest. They really are utter scum.
“We will have to find an operational way of carrying out checks and controls without putting back in place a border.” Michel Barnier, January 2019.
It's called Realpolitik. We'll undoubtedly be seeing more of it, and by no means just from the UK.
The EU isn't sticking up for a small member country. If it were, it would be looking for solutions, not obstructions. Varadkar is the EC's current useful idiot.
The Irish treasury is estimating that a hard brexit will knock 4 percentage points off of the country's GDP. That will take the smirk of Varadkar's face.
There was apparently a not unantagonistic conversation about Ireland's corporation tax regime at the Davos shindig last week. When the EC decides that the time's up, Ireland will be going under the bus. The EU is a fair weather friend.
With May’s deal Ireland effectively becomes a united Ireland
Dah, leaving the EU does not mean being tied to the EU indefinitely at their say so, it sort of defeats the object don't you think.The real point about the backstop of course is that Brexiteers hate it because they know there is no way to solve the problems of the Irish border so it effectively means we would stay in the EU customs union forever.
I didn't say I expected anything as regards Germany and chequebooks, or Republicans.
PS I'm perfectly aware of UK debt/GDP, but this was about EU/EZ austerity.
Dah, leaving the EU does not mean being tied to the EU indefinitely at their say so, it sort of defeats the object don't you think.
Poor voted for Brexit, we are so concerned Brexit will affect the poor, stupid thicko racist right wing leavers, now which is it people?
The backstop keeps the UK tied to the EU until he EU negotiate & change the agreement over the following 21 months, i'm sorry but this is precisely why the leave camp will not accept it as the cards are firmly in the EU camp.Of course that's not remotely what the backstop says or is for.
I'm OK with that if Brexit goes through.
You understand perfectly.Chip slipped again. I have no idea what you are on about, when something is bad for the economy it sure isn't the speculators and spivs that will pick up the tab. But there are plenty of thick people, the BBC seem to find most of them to interview.
Well, we disagree then.I didn't say anything about austerity in the UK being an EU order (though I wouldn't discount it). I said that austerity was an EU, and EU-wide, policy.