Boycott British goods and services?

Namlub · 10-12-2011 8:32pm

It's a sad day when you can't share your half-baked tgeories and not be picked up on them

What's with the bold anyway?

jc84 · 10-12-2011 8:34pm

stewie01 wrote: »

wow really.

yes really, if you dislike everything british, why don't you give up the language and speak irish

Kevin Duffy · 10-12-2011 8:34pm

ringadingding wrote: »

What I saw, and liked, was his balls.

Ooohhhh Matron!

shauneym · 10-12-2011 8:35pm

This country is approx 1% of the EU population and the same in financial terms,.
So OP never think that he Irish has the political or financial influence that the Brit's have, they stayed out of the 'EURO' because they could see what lay ahead when false accounting from small state's and what could happen when the lack of cohesion within financial market's worldwide would eventually lead to the collapse of an overladen debt ridden 'Europe'.
Unlike us we w ere led blindly by our FF leadership into a financial disaster that is called the 'EURO'.
I say leave the Euro, burn the Bondholder's,bring back the Punt, keep our 12.5 % corpo tax and latch onto the Pound or the Dollar...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=54k-RmPcIDw

Dudess · 10-12-2011 8:35pm

stewie01 wrote: »

Dudess wrote: »

Bby sandz 4eva fuk da queen tiocfaidh ar la

Is this what boards has deteriorated into. Criticize Britain and your an IRA support. Pretty fooking pathetic on your part i have to say.

Piss-poor reason to criticise Britain, to be fair - reeks of ra-esque Brit-bashing.
You'd have to forsake your Sky Sports too if this boycott went ahead...

Mr.Crinklewood · 10-12-2011 8:36pm

Stupid idea.

Latchy · 10-12-2011 8:36pm

Rober Fisk in this great article below say's '' Enda Kenny told the Irish people that they weren't responsible for the mess but didn't tell them who was '' .

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-bankers-are-the-dictators-of-the-west-6275084.html

Sashmo · 10-12-2011 8:36pm

Fair play to David Cameron.

Pity we don't have a leader like him, he's got back bone. We've just got a bunch of lemmings! 800 years isn't far enough back for them.

OP ... You started this. You should be open to criticism/opinions instead of insulting posters.

stewie01 · 10-12-2011 8:37pm

jc84 wrote: »

yes really, if you dislike everything british, why don't you give up the language and speak irish

Where do i say i dislike everything British????

gurramok · 10-12-2011 8:38pm

I wouldn't be full of praise for UK high st stores that have arrived here as 'competition' to Irish retailers. Their prices are still robbery alongside their Irish comrades.

Funny thing when you go up north and shop in the exact same stores, their prices do still be alot cheaper even after currency conversion.

I'd have more praise for Lidl\Aldi than the likes of Tesco who only cut prices when they have to and that is when they are not caught from "cutting prices to what they were at 6 months ago and promoting it as every little bit helps' lark. Same for 'Because we're Irish' Dunnes.

To sum up? Retailers of all origin have been screwing the Irish consumer for years, even the German stores were at it but not as bad as Tesco and Dunnes!!

stewie01 · 10-12-2011 8:38pm

Sashmo wrote: »

Fair play to David Cameron.

Pity we don't have a leader like him, he's got back bone. We've just got a bunch of lemmings! 800 years isn't far enough back for them.

OP ... You started this. You should be open to criticism/opinions instead of insulting posters.

who did i insult?

shauneym · 10-12-2011 8:38pm

Then why post such a stupid post...

Biggins · 10-12-2011 8:40pm

stewie01 wrote: »

Seem as the British government have no qualms about seeing the collapse of the euro and the EU, throwing hundreds of millions of peoples lives into misery for their own self interest of protecting the institutes that caused this global meltdown, is it time for Ireland and the rest of Europe to boycott all things British??

I wonder how fast Tesco and Co would be knocking on number 10s door if they saw their profits wiped out across Europe.

You know its actually very sad that you don't have a clue.
Its a sad state of affairs indeed.

Stop reading the likes of the cheap rags for their rubbish if thats where your getting your current train of thought and look at some broader pictures intermingled with the current wishes of people within their own territorial borders!

Dudess · 10-12-2011 8:40pm

M&S knickers are way raunchier and easier to take off than Dunnes ones. :cool:

jc84 · 10-12-2011 8:42pm

stewie01 wrote: »

Where do i say i dislike everything British????

is this whole thread not about boycotting british things??

stewie01 · 10-12-2011 8:42pm

Dudess wrote: »

M&S knickers are way raunchier and easier to take off than Dunnes ones. :cool:

i bet you know all about that. anyway .......

Latchy · 10-12-2011 8:44pm

OP if your going to start a thread about British policy making (disguised as Brit Bashing ... of which there have been many in AH ) you'll have to put in a much better effort .

deisedave · 10-12-2011 8:44pm

seanybiker wrote: »

We fooked ourselves up

lol but its easier if we blame England

Benny_Cake · 10-12-2011 8:45pm

Dudess wrote: »

M&S knickers are way raunchier and easier to take off than Dunnes ones. :cool:

Durty Brits, eroding our moral standards

Gummy Panda · 10-12-2011 8:45pm

Dudess wrote: »

M&S knickers are way raunchier and easier to take off than Dunnes ones. :cool:

PICS OR GTFO!

stewie01 · 10-12-2011 8:45pm

jc84 wrote: »

is this whole thread not about boycotting british things??

this thread is about boycotting British goods and services because they dont want to help their European neighbors out, with stabilizing the euro. that does not mean i dislike everything british.

Dudess · 10-12-2011 8:47pm

stewie01 wrote: »

Dudess wrote: »

M&S knickers are way raunchier and easier to take off than Dunnes ones. :cool:

i bet you know all about that. anyway .......

Of course I do, hence my post.

gurramok · 10-12-2011 8:47pm

Benny_Cake wrote: »

Durty Brits, eroding our moral standards

Yeh, we were all strict Catholics before Ann Summers arrived :rolleyes:

Remember when there was a protest by the extreme religious right when Ann arrived? Unreal stuff, the Taliban would have been proud!!

Benny_Cake · 10-12-2011 8:48pm

Actually OP, on a personal level, are you going to boycott British products? Because there's nothing stopping you from doing so.

Biggins · 10-12-2011 8:49pm

stewie01 wrote: »

this thread is about boycotting British goods and services because they dont want to help their European neighbors out, with stabilizing the euro. that does not mean i dislike everything british.

They DO want to help their neighbours out.
Didn't they actually give us extra money off their own backs and help us more?
...And you want to lash out at them?

What bloody short memory, bloody minded stupidity! Christ!

jc84 · 10-12-2011 8:50pm

stewie01 wrote: »

this thread is about boycotting British goods and services because they dont want to help their European neighbors out, with stabilizing the euro. that does not mean i dislike everything british.

but seriously, why should the uk have to give up something that is so important to their economy, do you think enda kenny would have agreed if there was a policy in place that would remove ireland's low corporation tax rate? no way, the treaty is most likely still going ahead, just without britain who are not in the euro anyway

and if it was the other way around, would the british boycott irish goods and services?

Benny_Cake · 10-12-2011 8:51pm

gurramok wrote: »

Yeh, we were all strict Catholics before Ann Summers arrived :rolleyes:

Remember when there was a protest by the extreme religious right when Ann arrived? Unreal stuff, the Taliban would have been proud!!

Yeah, it was a great bit of publicity for Ann Summers that! What amused me was that one of the arguments the protesters made was that the shop was inappropriate for O'Connell St - had they even looked at the state of the street at the time!

Ellis Dee · 10-12-2011 8:52pm

There was a point in boycotts like that 100 years or so ago, when Sinn Fein had posters reading "Burn everything British - except their coal", but in this day and age in a globalised economy, it just won't work. We'll just have to persevere and try to get through this crisis as Europeans and let the Little Englanders screw things up for their country. Eventually, they and their silly monarchy and ruling classes will face the wrath of the masses. Even in England the worm will have to turn sooner or later.;););)

Killer Pigeon · 10-12-2011 8:53pm

Absolute nonsense!

I'd be willing to buy more British goods and services. In fact, I say we should follow British example.

I'd love to see a more integrated Europe, an EU without an borders. However, under the present situation we will be forced to hand over powers, that usually are only reserved for elected representatives, to unelected bureaucrats in Europe. It's a undemocratic short term solution to a long term problem.

Better the €uro to collapse than our rights to vanish I say.

gurramok · 10-12-2011 8:54pm

Biggins wrote: »

They DO want to help their neighbours out.
Didn't they actually give us extra money off their own backs and help us more?
...And you want to lash out at them?

What bloody short memory, bloody minded stupidity! Christ!

Ah here Biggins, you know well they only loaned us that money out of their own interest. British banks are up to their knees debt wise here, it was wise for Britain to loan us a few bob because if we went under, well Britain would suffer alot.

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