Will Britain ever just piss off and get on with Brexit? -mod warning in OP (21/12)

davedanon

blinding wrote: »

There are as many if not more ‘ Not Brits ‘ in Northern Ireland these Days .

This is why the future of Northern Ireland is very much up for debate . This has not gone un-noticed by Big Island Brits either . Imagine how much they could save for example .

So it's expensive. That's your argument.

blinding

davedanon wrote: »

So it's expensive. That's your argument.

Expensive is an understatement:eek:

Its like burning money in a wood burner on a grand scale:eek:

timetogo1

blinding wrote: »

There are as many if not more ‘ Not Brits ‘ in Northern Ireland these Days .

This is why the future of Northern Ireland is very much up for debate . This has not gone un-noticed by Big Island Brits either . Imagine how much they could save for example .

Since when did countries start to chip parts of themselves off because they were expensive?

blinding

timetogo1 wrote: »

Since when did countries start to chip parts of themselves off because they were expensive?

When 50% + 1 said they want out of there:D

davedanon

blinding wrote: »

When 50% + 1 said they want out of there:D

And that's going to happen soon, is it?

blinding

davedanon wrote: »

And that's going to happen soon, is it?

It could potentially happen within 10 years maybe sooner .

Thats not long .

davedanon

'could', 'potentially', 'within', 'maybe'.


Riiiight.

Padre_Pio

davedanon wrote: »

'could', 'potentially', 'within', 'maybe'.


Riiiight.

It's not.

Plenty of hardcore Unionists need to die of old age before we'll get a united Ireland.

I will say though that one area of negotiation that Britain has experience in is giving away it's land to other countries.

A Hong Kong like agreement could see a ten year or longer transition period, which would be perfect for us.

davedanon

I can't make up my mind whether the north's bloated civil service would be an intractable, and enormously expensive problem for us, or if we could sort it out fairly easily, and just assimilate NI relatively painlessly into an economically-expanded Ireland.

blinding

davedanon wrote: »

'could', 'potentially', 'within', 'maybe'.


Riiiight.

You are floating on De-Nile . Enjoy yourself .

blinding

davedanon wrote: »

I can't make up my mind whether the north's bloated civil service would be an intractable, and enormously expensive problem for us, or if we could sort it out fairly easily, and just assimilate NI relatively painlessly into an economically-expanded Ireland.

Nae bother to FFG.

davedanon

blinding wrote: »

You are floating on De-Nile . Enjoy yourself .

Better than talking shíte.

FrancieBrady

Wouldn't overly surprise if this was real and not a photoshop.

davedanon

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Wouldn't overly surprise if this was real and not a photoshop.

So does the misspelling make it more, or less, likely to be genuine?

ohnonotgmail

davedanon wrote: »

So does the misspelling make it more, or less, likely to be genuine?

the answer to that is very obvious.

davedanon

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

the answer to that is very obvious.

You might think, but, have you fully considered the blinding stupidity of Boris and his band of merry Brexiters?

notobtuse

Seems Megxit has overshadowed Brexit at the moment.

ancapailldorcha

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Wouldn't overly surprise if this was real and not a photoshop.

Remember these?

ohnonotgmail

davedanon wrote: »

You might think, but, have you fully considered the blinding stupidity of Boris and his band of merry Brexiters?

I think we might be misunderstanding each other. for me, the spelling mistake makes it more likely to be genuine.

threeball

davedanon wrote: »

You might think, but, have you fully considered the blinding stupidity of Boris and his band of merry Brexiters?

Wasn't it Toad of toad Hall, Mr Farage that was fond of the independence day phrase.

davedanon

More Brexit stupidity. Now there's a clamour to have Big Ben fixed in time to RING OUT OUR FREEDOM on Jan 31st. Bread and circuses. It's all the lumpen masses care about, really.

First Up

davedanon wrote:

More Brexit stupidity. Now there's a clamour to have Big Ben fixed in time to RING OUT OUR FREEDOM on Jan 31st. Bread and circuses. It's all the lumpen masses care about, really.

Well we have people in these threads who feel threatened by the EU flag and "Ode to Joy" so symbolism and circuses seem to be important when they have little else.

ambro25

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Wouldn't overly surprise if this was real and not a photoshop.

Can we take this as an indication that the British are beginning their diverging, with grammatical divergence?

Cunning plan, if so :pac:

RobMc59

ambro25 wrote: »

Can we take this as an indication that the British are beginning their diverging, with grammatical divergence?

Cunning plan, if so :pac:

I have noticed a few posters use american english spelling,whether thats because they are american or Ireland is tending to use their spelling remains to be seen.

ohnonotgmail

RobMc59 wrote: »

I have noticed a few posters use american english spelling,whether thats because they are american or Ireland is tending to use their spelling remains to be seen.

boards.ie is setup with an american spellchecker

ambro25

RobMc59 wrote: »

I have noticed a few posters use american english spelling,whether thats because they are american or Ireland is tending to use their spelling remains to be seen.

For the avoidance of doubt: my post was about the '31rd' of January on that pin, not Francie's spelling.

I don't believe American has diverged so much from English yet, to the extent of replacing '31st' with '31rd'...then again, I make it a point in life to avoid Trump's testiculations, so I could well be mistaken and remain, as ever, open to correction (English is my 3rd language, see )

davedanon

'Testiculation' is a new one on me. Very good. A twitter thread by the always-excellent Tony Connelly on upcoming UK-EU negotiations on Level Playing Field (LPF) provisions on trade. It's gonna get nasty...


https://twitter.com/tconnellyRTE/status/1217210053033447430?s=20

davedanon

ambro25 wrote: »

For the avoidance of doubt: my post was about the '31rd' of January on that pin, not Francie's spelling.

I don't believe American has diverged so much from English yet, to the extent of replacing '31st' with '31rd'...then again, I make it a point in life to avoid Trump's testiculations, so I could well be mistaken and remain, as ever, open to correction (English is my 3rd language, see )

you'd never know it. What are the first two?

ambro25

davedanon wrote: »

you'd never know it. What are the first two?

French, und Deutsch. Though my spoken English is still better than both these days, truth be told. Not fully reacclimatised to the auld Continent yet.

Working on Luxembourgish for the past year and crumbs, but as it's closer to a dialect, particularly with no authoritative grammar for the written form, it's proving rather tricky.

theological

Freedom of movement isn't all it is cracked up to be. The EU have finally realised there is a problem with brain drain from Eastern Europe to Western European countries and are now trying to solve the problem 10 years too late with minimum wage rules.

Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European commission, pledged to bring in a common framework for setting a minimum wage as she sought to secure support among socialist MEPs for her leadership of the EU’s executive branch.

The commission is also under pressure to reverse the “brain drain” from east to west caused by huge discrepancies in salaries within the EU.

Meanwhile EU freedom of movement has triggered a population crisis in Croatia.

European Union freedom of movement rules have triggered a population crisis in Croatia, the last country to join the EU, with hundreds of thousands of Croats moving to Western Europe for higher pay.

“Croatia suffers a population loss equivalent to losing a small city every year,” Andrej Plenković, the prime minister, said at a press conference to mark the country holding the rotating presidency of the EU for the first time.

Britain's population has grown by a small city every year in terms of net migration in the same period.

I think we often think of freedom of movement from a Western European perspective.