Should the Isle of Man become part of Ireland?

alaimacerc

super_furry wrote: »

Manx people are all inbred weirdos and we already have Dingle.

And what's worse, Donegal.

Ten of Swords

Boris Johnson and Arlene Foster have both supported the notion of a bridge as recently as 2 weeks ago. Both the Mull of Kintyre route and the Larne - Portpatrick route (which would traverse the Beaufort's Dyke) are under consideration. Guess we'll see.

Price tag estimated to be £15 Billion GBP

alaimacerc

Are Am Eye wrote: »

I think the following peoples should be given the option of joining us: -

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4. The Outer Hebrides.
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Importing a bunch of Gaelic-speaking Presbyterian fundamentalists would certainly confuse the pain of some of our existing language/religious/culture wars.

Ten of Swords

JayZeus wrote: »

If they hardball, we’ll add in Monaghan, Cavan and most of North Dublin.

Are ye trying to scare them away!

alaimacerc

JayZeus wrote: »

we’ll even give them Cork back

I assume this is punishment for bad behaviour. Only I'm not sure whose.

Are Am Eye

Ten of Swords wrote: »

Boris Johnson and Arlene Foster have both supported the notion of a bridge as recently as 2 weeks ago. Both the Mull of Kintyre route and the Larne - Portpatrick route (which would traverse the Beaufort's Dyke) are under consideration. Guess we'll see.

Price tag estimated to be £15 Billion GBP

GDP/Population wise I think that pari passu the UK would be paying 13-14 Billion of that. Not a bad idea. We'd be happy to chip in our own little bit.

Ten of Swords

Are Am Eye wrote: »

I think the following peoples should be given the option of joining us: -


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9. Indonesia.

We can finally get started on the Wexford - Surabaya tunnel

alaimacerc

Ten of Swords wrote: »

Boris Johnson and Arlene Foster have both supported the notion of a bridge as recently as 2 weeks ago. Both the Mull of Kintyre route and the Larne - Portpatrick route (which would traverse the Beaufort's Dyke) are under consideration. Guess we'll see.

Price tag estimated to be £15 Billion GBP

The Larne route is surely a lot saner. (If only on the scale of full-blown neurosis to danger to self and others.) 50% shorter road route to get to Glasgow, also provides similar access to Cumbria. (Not sure why anyone'd want access to Cumbria, but still.)

Go the other way, and to make it remotely practical you'd have to "knock through" a heck of a lot to get access to populated areas, in particular to avoid driving around Loch Fyne. At that stage, you're better just waiting for Elongated Muskrat to come along with a giant TBM and build a direct Belfast-Glasgow hyperloop.

LeBash

bear1 wrote: »

In what reality would this ever happen? What benefit would this bring to the island/s?

He said it in the OP, a tax haven

alaimacerc

LeBash wrote: »

He said it in the OP, a tax haven

But that's just legislative fiat. Could make the same arrangements in, oh, let's say completely at "random", North Tipp (as was).

Ten of Swords

alaimacerc wrote: »

The Larne route is surely a lot saner.

Agreed, but it is the most technically difficult and would require immense construction costs and probably the development of new technology due to the depth of the water and the million tons of WW2 era ordnance still in the trench.

The Kintyre route is technically feasible and the bridge section shorter but the route is too out of the way to make it competitive, it would also require infrastructure developments on the (fairly remote) Scottish side that would probably double the overall project cost

Jeff Devoy

I actually would be in support of the Isle of Man becoming part of a united Ireland.

It's so irrelevant that I don't think most people would mind (it only has a population of around about 80,000), plus it could be quite beneficial to the Irish economy with the TT Races and the tourism generated by that.

It would obviously cease to be a tax haven, though.

dxhound2005

Jeff Devoy wrote: »

I actually would be in support of the Isle of Man becoming part of a united Ireland.

It's so irrelevant that I don't think most people would mind (it only has a population of around about 80,000), plus it could be quite beneficial to the Irish economy with the TT Races and the tourism generated by that.

It would obviously cease to be a tax haven, though.

Of course, nobody would mind.

MikeyTaylor

Will I Am Not wrote: »

Would we have to rename it to appease Louise O’Neill?

(Brock from Pokèmon voice)
"Don't mention that name!!'

Has anybody asked the Manx?

archer22

Deleted User wrote: »

Has anybody asked the Manx?

Course not, it's assumed that they will be delighted with the idea

(same as the million unionists in NI with the unification fantasy).

badtoro

A bridge to Scotland... Someone let me in on the joke?

As an aside, I can't remember where exactly but I read they're planning/building floating bridges over deep water now. Much like some oil rigs I expect.

Hector Bellend

The isle of man can ask my big fat hairy ....................................

MikeyTaylor

currant wrote: »

I think that both Rockall and the IOM should become part of a united Ireland.

alaimacerc

badtoro wrote: »

As an aside, I can't remember where exactly but I read they're planning/building floating bridges over deep water now. Much like some oil rigs I expect.

Bjørna Fjord?