Annex one county at a time?

bobblepuzzle

If the Republic were to annex a county in the North, Fermanagh first for example, what do you think would be the British response? I mean they see Northern Ireland as much as a headache as we do... so would they be bothered?? And also, the Americans would gladly sell the Republic state of the art military equipment, even in our economic mess most likely in spite of the UK, your views please!!?

stepbar

Tar.Aldarionftw wrote: »

If the Republic were to annex a county in the North, Fermanagh first for example, what do you think would be the British response? I mean they see Northern Ireland as much as a headache as we do... so would they be bothered?? And also, the Americans would gladly sell the Republic state of the art military equipment, even in our economic mess most likely in spite of the UK, your views please!!?

Feck that, Antrim first FTW.

Biggins

The Brits would be glad to get the North headache off their hands to be honest. I think most know that, even the ageing die-hard protestants.
As for buying more weapons - jeasus we can hardly afford the 3 military boats we have already.
Buy more? I wonder what will they call the inventive named tax they could come up with for that!

bobblepuzzle

Biggins wrote: »

The Brits would be glad to get the North headache off their hands to be honest. I think most know that, even the ageing die-hard protestants.
As for buying more weapons - jeasus we can hardly afford the 3 military boats we have already.
Buy more? I wonder what will they call the inventive named tax they could come up with for that!

They could probably finance a few F16's on our National Debt somehow :P lol

m@cc@

**** me, not another N.Ireland/Brit thread. I'm from Fermanagh and I say leave it be. The Republic has enough problems at the moment.

stepbar

Well considering that the Uk fund Ni to the tune of 9 billion a year I think it's a wet man's dream that we'll see 32 counties once again.

rossie1977

i say give the brits mayo, nothing good comes from mayo

Wazdakka

We could start annexing counties...
Or...

We could just go for whole countries..
Maybe somewhere warmer with less rain than Ireland.

We could do it really sly'ly as well..
Who would expect Ireland to invade them?

I vote Oz for our nations first conquest.
Theres loads of Irish already out there, they have beaches, lots of cheap booze and lets face it... Kangaroos are awesome.

All we need is to give some fella with a funny hat a stick and send him into the bush.
We tell him that millions of people worldwide will get pissed every year in his honour and BAM...
No nore snakes.

Biggins

Tar.Aldarionftw wrote: »

They could probably finance a few F16's on our National Debt somehow :P lol

F16's???
We can hardly afford to buy an F12 button for a broken keyboard in Leinster house!

m@cc@

stepbar wrote: »

Well considering that the Uk fund Ni to the tune of 9 billion a year I think it's a wet man's dream that we'll see 32 counties once again.

Well, a lot of that 9 billion has to do with the size of NI as a country.

bobblepuzzle

Biggins wrote: »

F16's???
We can hardly afford to buy an F12 button for a broken keyboard in Leinster house!

:O

The simple answer is we can't afford N.I
It costs billions on the U.K's exchequer every year.

redout

If we got the north it would cripple us.

They cant even support themselves ffs.

British taxpayer injects about £9bn a year there to keep it going.

bobblepuzzle

Deleted User wrote: »

The simple answer is we can't afford N.I
It costs billions on the U.K's exchequer every year.

Some patriot you are :P

Millicent

Ooh, what's this OP?! You seem to have carelessly opened it... :P

bobblepuzzle

Millicent wrote: »

Ooh, what's this OP?! You seem to have carelessly opened it... :P

lmao :P

stepbar

m@cc@ wrote: »

Well, a lot of that 9 billion has to do with the size of NI as a country.

It's a 9billion sub that we can't afford.

m@cc@

redout wrote: »

If we got the north it would cripple us.

They cant even support themselves ffs.

British taxpayer injects about £9bn a year there to keep it going.

A bloated public sector is the main reason for that but that in turn is due to a 30 year bombing campaign. Give it 10 years or so and I'd expect that figure to dramtically decrease as long as the private sector is encouraged to grow - i.e. cut spending in the public sector and use it in the private sector.

Tar.Aldarionftw

Tar.Aldarionftw wrote: »

Some patriot you are :P

Yeah patriotism is fine if you want a country with even crappier "Health Care".

m@cc@

stepbar wrote: »

It's a 9billion sub that we can't afford.

I wouldn't disagree with that, I'm just giving the reason for the funding. I think logistically, NI would work out cheaper for the south that it currently does for GB.

ballsymchugh

the uvf did have some kinda contingency plan for protecting the north in the 70s in the event of this happening, i remember reading about it around the time of the first wave of ceasefires. they were going to pull back from fermanagh and armagh, but not sure what the heads in london would've thought about it.

m@cc@

ballsymchugh wrote: »

the uvf did have some kinda contingency plan for protecting the north in the 70s in the event of this happening, i remember reading about it around the time of the first wave of ceasefires. they were going to pull back from fermanagh and armagh, but not sure what the heads in london would've thought about it.

South Armagh is effectively in the Republic in all but border. Feckin' bandit country.

ballsymchugh

m@cc@ wrote: »

South Armagh is effectively in the Republic in all but border. Feckin' bandit country.

ha! the border is only there for 'tax reasons'!!

m@cc@

ballsymchugh wrote: »

ha! the border is only there for 'tax reasons'!!

It's like the Andorra of Ireland, they have their own law there.

stepbar

rossie1977 wrote: »

i say give the brits mayo, nothing good comes from mayo

Funny comment from a Rossie! Lol lest i remind you 'I'd rather be a paki than a ross!' lol

bobblepuzzle

Biggins wrote: »

Buy more? I wonder what will they call the inventive named tax they could come up with for that!

The F16 tax :P

stepbar

m@cc@ wrote: »

I wouldn't disagree with that, I'm just giving the reason for the funding. I think logistically, NI would work out cheaper for the south that it currently does for GB.

But we can't afford it, it's as simple as that!

Biggins

Tar.Aldarionftw wrote: »

The F16 tax :P

I would have thought the politicians would be begging about "arms for the poor, arms for the poor" tax. :rolleyes:

bobblepuzzle

stepbar wrote: »

But we can't afford it, it's as simple as that!

:O NCI are a bunch of unionists! :P Who knew haha :P

m@cc@

stepbar wrote: »

But we can't afford it, it's as simple as that!

I'm agreeing with you! See my comments on the first page. As a Nordie, I think we should be in a position to be a viable option for the people in the south before we're thrust back upon them.

bobblepuzzle

m@cc@ wrote: »

I'm agreeing with you! See my comments on the first page. As a Nordie, I think we should be in a position to be a viable option for the people in the south before we're thrust back upon them.

Can't wait for the "get back the North war" :P In tractors!!!! it will be better than Napoleons victories!!!!

m@cc@

Tar.Aldarionftw wrote: »

Can't wait for the "get back the North war" :P In tractors!!!! it will be better than Napoleons victories!!!!

Well it's in the Brits interest to get rid of us, so if they know what's good for them, they'll help us to get back on track and then have a word in the ear of whoever is Taoiseach and say 'Here, take these ones off our hands' and if the Taoiseach is shrewd enough they'll reply 'OK, but only for 10 billion Euro'

Biggins

m@cc@ wrote: »

...if the Taoiseach is shrewd enough they'll reply 'OK, but only for 10 billion Euro'

10 Billion!
Hell, if they take NAMA - happy days! :cool:

stepbar

Tar.Aldarionftw wrote: »

:O NCI are a bunch of unionists! :P Who knew haha :P

They can barely afford themselves! Lol funny the alumni is launching a new member drive.... Hard times ahead....

Jesus Wept

On the contrary, we should give them Munster.

Mahatma coat

Wazdakka wrote: »

We could start annexing counties...
Or...

We could just go for whole countries..
Maybe somewhere warmer with less rain than Ireland.

We could do it really sly'ly as well..
Who would expect Ireland to invade them?

I vote Oz for our nations first conquest.
Theres loads of Irish already out there, they have beaches, lots of cheap booze and lets face it... Kangaroos are awesome.

All we need is to give some fella with a funny hat a stick and send him into the bush.
We tell him that millions of people worldwide will get pissed every year in his honour and BAM...
No nore snakes.

you Called :D:D


But Seriously folks you can get pisse in My honour any day of the year;)

Tar.Aldarion

Where would we go for cheap stuff if we had the north!?

OutlawPete

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Where would we go for cheap stuff if we had the north!?

Okay, who the fcuk is TarAldarionftw? :pac:

Tar.Aldarion

OutlawPete wrote: »

Okay, who the fcuk is TarAldarionftw? :pac:

My zanpoktou..wait be less nerdy...an adoring fan I imagine.

bobblepuzzle

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

My zanpoktou..wait be less nerdy...an adoring fan I imagine.

Not just any fan honey! Number 1 fan! :pac: haha :cool: