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Will Britain piss off and get on with Brexit II (mod warning in OP)

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    #5972
    [Deleted User]
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Ireland base: 100
    The UK base: 100

    Ireland end of 2020: 103.3
    The UK end of 2020: 90.1

    Ireland projected end of 2021: 106.7
    The UK projected end of 2021: 96.63


    The UK economy would have to grow by 18.42% in 2021 to be where Ireland is projected to be.

    Apple are launching a new phone this year are they?


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    #5973
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,187 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Aegir wrote: »
    Apple are launching a new phone this year are they?

    and the relevance of that is?


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    #5974
    [Deleted User]
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    and the relevance of that is?

    It’s effect on the Irish economy.


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    #5975
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 67,063 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    and the relevance of that is?

    Brexiteer bitterness and jealousy?


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    #5976
    RobMc59
    Registered Users Posts: 4,831 ✭✭✭RobMc59


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Ireland base: 100
    The UK base: 100

    Ireland end of 2020: 103.3
    The UK end of 2020: 90.1

    Ireland projected end of 2021: 106.7
    The UK projected end of 2021: 96.63


    The UK economy would have to grow by 18.42% in 2021 to be where Ireland is projected to be.

    You're missing the point,which isn't how much is the projected UK growth in comparison to Ireland.The significance of this is the UK economy is expected to recover faster than previously thought which is welcome news to British people.


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    #5977
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    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    Brexiteer bitterness and jealousy?

    Aah, the usual childish stereotyping from Francie.

    just a simple reference to the fact that Irish economy figures need to be taken in context of the disproportionately large effect American multinationals have on the figures.


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    #5978
    Padre_Pio
    Registered Users Posts: 4,941 ✭✭✭Padre_Pio


    RobMc59 wrote: »
    You're missing the point,which isn't how much is the projected UK growth in comparison to Ireland.The significance of this is the UK economy is expected to recover faster than previously thought which is welcome news to British people.

    Welcome news that the UK is going to be slightly less sh*t.

    Pat yourself on the back there lads :D


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    #5979
    brickster69
    Registered Users Posts: 5,428 ✭✭✭brickster69


    The French are retreating for a change

    https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1390281109112508421

    All roads lead to Rome.



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    #5980
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 67,063 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Aegir wrote: »
    Aah, the usual childish stereotyping from Francie.

    just a simple reference to the fact that Irish economy figures need to be taken in context of the disproportionately large effect American multinationals have on the figures.

    I'm being 'childish' after a comment like that?

    Why didn't you just say nothing and leave the bitterness out of it.

    The Irish economy is the 'Irish economy', we could spend all day taking bitter little snipes at any economy if we wanted to.


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    #5981
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    brickster69 wrote: »
    The French are retreating

    I need more than an image but it's good if true.


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    #5982
    FrancieBrady
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    brickster69 wrote: »
    The French are retreating for a change

    https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1390281109112508421

    As they said the would.

    More of the gung ho language...'retreating' :):)


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    #5983
    Padre_Pio
    Registered Users Posts: 4,941 ✭✭✭Padre_Pio


    brickster69 wrote: »
    The French are retreating for a change

    Sure what did we expect would happen?
    The French fishermen assault some Navy gunboats? :D


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    #5984
    Tyrone212
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    Daily mail headline earlier was " Ready for War" now its "Our new trafalgar"

    God what a bunch of nutters. Fruitcakes galore.


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    #5985
    Tyrone212
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    brickster69 wrote: »
    The French are retreating for a change

    https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1390281109112508421

    Daily mail has a French boat ramming an English one and the English one retreated to harbour. Get ready for war according to them lol


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    #5986
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    RobMc59 wrote: »
    You're missing the point,which isn't how much is the projected UK growth in comparison to Ireland.The significance of this is the UK economy is expected to recover faster than previously thought which is welcome news to British people.

    No, the point was to mock Ireland and the EU. The poster feigned being sorry for us in Ireland and ended with Maybe not.

    If you want to make your point now, go ahead. But don't try to tell me what the point was within a page of that poster making a holy show of himself trying to get one over on my country.


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    #5987
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,187 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Tyrone212 wrote: »
    Daily mail headline earlier was " Ready for War" now its "Our new trafalgar"

    God what a bunch of nutters. Fruitcakes galore.
    Tyrone212 wrote: »
    Daily mail has a French boat ramming an English one and the English one retreated to harbour. Get ready for war according to them lol

    perhaps your issue is that you are using the Daily Mail as a source of news.


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    #5988
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 67,063 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Tyrone212 wrote: »
    Daily mail headline earlier was " Ready for War" now its "Our new trafalgar"

    God what a bunch of nutters. Fruitcakes galore.

    You gotta love the Little Englander/Brexiteer language...makes it all such a spectacle of embarrassment.
    Set it all to the music of Dad's Army and get the popcorn out for a great little romp in the Channel. :D


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    #5989
    Tyrone212
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    perhaps your issue is that you are using the Daily Mail as a source of news.

    I went on it for a laugh. Its the type of nonsense some on here swallow up hook line and sinker.


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    #5990
    Tyrone212
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    "At least two Jersey vessels are out supporting their French counterparts. Chris Le Masurier, skipper of the Normandy Trader says Jersey’s fishermen’s association has been hijacked by jingoistic extremists and that without France and the EU they would have no market."


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    #5991
    An Claidheamh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,622 ✭✭✭An Claidheamh


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    'Never bring a gun to a fight unless you intend to use it'.

    Of course it's gunboat diplomacy, this was a signalled protest that was not going to blockade and was only intended to last for a few hours. Total over reaction designed to play to the rabble.



    A couple of years ago,it was the Spanish they were sabre rattling at

    Britain is only a paper dragon

    Tough on Internet forums and goose stepping in stupid parades and uniforms, their only military experience in the last few decades had been as a supplement to the US army and target practice for disgruntled IRA

    We’d be in trouble if wars were fought and decided on right wing Twitter accounts or the Daily Mail website


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    #5992
    An Claidheamh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,622 ✭✭✭An Claidheamh


    brickster69 wrote: »
    Hillarious. The world is watching and laughing.

    Said no one about the EU ever


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    #5993
    brickster69
    Registered Users Posts: 5,428 ✭✭✭brickster69


    biko wrote: »
    I need more than an image but it's good if true.

    Tanks are building up in Calais according to reports. They can't manage to get them out of reverse gear though :pac:

    All roads lead to Rome.



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    #5994
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 37,452 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    brickster69 wrote: »
    Tanks are building up in Calais according to reports. They can't manage to get them out of reverse gear though :pac:

    There's nothing cringier than some lad on an Irish forum trying to be edgy by recycling the same cliched old Simpsons joke.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #5995
    An Claidheamh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,622 ✭✭✭An Claidheamh


    loughside wrote: »
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57008220

    BREAKING:
    "The UK economy will enjoy its strongest growth in peacetime this year as Covid-19 lockdown restrictions are lifted, according to the Bank of England.

    The economy is expected to expand 7.25% in 2021, with extra government cash for workers and businesses helping to limit job losses.

    This would be the strongest growth since official records began in 1949."

    I`m beginning to feel a tad sorry for you folk down in the 26 counties as the EU falls into double-dip recession and the UK goes from strength to strength, ...................

    well, hmmm, maybe not :)



    Any chance growth might be from Covid restrictions opening up and that the North is even more of a basket case (I guess you have forgiven Britain for the protocol then)?

    You must be a delinquent to think that is growth from Bre- ...


    Oh wait, you’re a unionist ...


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    #5996
    Padre_Pio
    Registered Users Posts: 4,941 ✭✭✭Padre_Pio


    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    There's nothing cringier than some lad on an Irish forum trying to be edgy by recycling the same cliched old Simpsons joke.

    It's weird to think the phrase "Cheese eating surrender monkey" is most likely older than the people who are using it.

    Having a nose at some Brexiter discussion forum.
    It's weird how the conversation swings from "How dare they after we saved them in (insert whatever war the UK and France were allies)" to "We'll beat you like we did at (insert whatever war the UK and France were enemies)".


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    #5997
    An Claidheamh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,622 ✭✭✭An Claidheamh


    Aegir wrote: »
    Aah, the usual childish stereotyping from Francie.

    just a simple reference to the fact that Irish economy figures need to be taken in context of the disproportionately large effect American multinationals have on the figures.



    “Figures taken in context”

    Nice advice from a Brexiter 😒

    It’s as if the Brits are jealous of American multinationals in Ireland,

    can’t hack free trade eh?


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    #5998
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 67,063 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    An Claidheamh wrote: »
    A couple of years ago,it was the Spanish they were sabre rattling at

    Britain is only a paper dragon

    Tough on Internet forums and goose stepping in stupid parades and uniforms, their only military experience in the last few decades had been as a supplement to the US army and target practice for disgruntled IRA

    We’d be in trouble if wars were fought and decided on right wing Twitter accounts or the Daily Mail website

    How long until we get the WW2 French coward trope being used.


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    #5999
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,187 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    How long until we get the WW2 French coward trope being used.

    Best not to mention the frech troops who gave up their lives so the british army could escape from dunkirk in a glorious retreat.


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    #6000
    An Claidheamh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,622 ✭✭✭An Claidheamh


    Padre_Pio wrote: »
    It's weird to think the phrase "Cheese eating surrender monkey" is most likely older than the people who are using it.

    Having a nose at some Brexiter discussion forum.
    It's weird how the conversation swings from "How dare they after we saved them in (insert whatever war the UK and France were allies)" to "We'll beat you like we did at (insert whatever war the UK and France were enemies)".


    The gas thing is how little insight the average Brit has regarding WW2 despite the 24-7 coverage it has on tv channels

    Dam busters etc were tiny affairs

    They don’t have a clue about the actual political, social or military history of the conflict (same as WW1) that we would have from 2nd or 3rd level education, then again British education is essentially lies agreed upon

    I remember years ago, Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrat’s was attacked for implying there was too much WW2 material on British tv


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    #6001
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 37,452 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    How long until we get the WW2 French coward trope being used.

    There were literally multiple wars where it took the rest of Europe and sometimes Russia to keep the French in check.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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