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Brexit: The Last Stand (No name calling)

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  • #2732
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,864 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    You mean you've been masturbating over the thought long before Brexit.

    I'm a good deal more confident than ten quid that the UK will have its current borders in ten years. Scotland is an economic basket case and the other Celtic nations are worse.

    The UK is a basket case. Welcome to reality.


  • #2733
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    The UK is a basket case. Welcome to reality.

    Fifth largest economy in the world and 13th highest per capita according to the IMF. Above Austria, the Netherlands and Canada.

    Scotland on the other hand has a 15 billion GBP deficit.

    But then you don't really care about what's good for the Scottish people. Welcome to reality Francie.

    Will you stand me 100 quid the UK will be in place in ten years? (I'm a big spender I know)


  • #2734
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,864 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    Fifth largest economy in the world and 13th highest per capita according to the IMF. Above Austria, the Netherlands and Canada.

    Welcome to reality.

    And in political crisis. Brexit being the final nail the way it is panning out.
    Pull away the window dressing and UK society is a mess.


  • #2735
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    And in political crisis. Brexit being the final nail the way it is panning out.
    Pull away the window dressing and UK society is a mess.

    Ah ah not so quickly there Francie, you claimed the UK was a basket case.

    Now if you can't back that up are you willing to retract?


  • #2736
    Sand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,050 ✭✭✭✭Sand


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    40 years ago they were being shot in the street.
    20 years ago they didn't have power sharing
    10 years ago they were only able to accept the police force.
    5 years ago a Southern FG Taoiseach publicly stating that it makes sense to reunite with them would have been unthinkable.

    Time changes everything Fred.

    You know, on the one hand I consider the above wishful thinking. On the other hand, 40 years ago they were shooting people in the street. If they want to believe the dream...grand, keeps them from shooting people in the street.


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  • #2737
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    They can fly any flag they like in Londonderry, it is still part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland though.

    Fred is it any wonder posters here get a hard on when something bad happens in Emgland when you post childish things like that?


  • #2738
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,864 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    Ah ah not so quickly there Francie, you claimed the UK was a basket case.

    Now if you can't back that up are you willing to retract?

    When you have a sitting government forced to do something they don't want to do, that is pretty much the definition of a basket case society.
    This Brexit fiasco is a direct result of basketness.


  • #2739
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    No of course you don't.

    The funny thing (for me) is, you're gloating about what you perceive to be the break up of the British Union when in reality it seem the European Union is in more immediate danger.

    Britain leaving only creates an Irish exclave, France leaving would make an exclave of the entire Iberian peninsula. Two countries that are already facing destabilization at home due to massive youth unemployment rates.

    Maybe if France leaves they start to reconsider their positions?

    Wait where are you getting France leaving from?


  • #2740
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    Ah ah not so quickly there Francie, you claimed the UK was a basket case.

    Now if you can't back that up are you willing to retract?

    If a hard Brexit happens the UK will be a basket case.


  • #2741
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Wait where are you getting France leaving from?

    Le Pen has said she's going to call a referendum if she wins, the polls are looking good for the EU but they looked good before Brexit too.


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  • #2742
    Nate--IRL--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,259 ✭✭✭Nate--IRL--


    Basket Case:-

    When a given situation has no solution.

    It makes reference in the form of a parabola to someone who has lost his mental health and has no cure.
    It is said that people without cure to a mental disease used to be sent to a mental health care facility for life where they would manufacture baskets for the rest of their lives.

    Seems to fit.

    Nate


  • #2743
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,864 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Sand wrote: »
    You know, on the one hand I consider the above wishful thinking. On the other hand, 40 years ago they were shooting people in the street. If they want to believe the dream...grand, keeps them from shooting people in the street.

    The British won't be shooting Irish people on Irish streets to shore up a unionist sectarian statelet again. They have conspired with the Irish government to dismantle that sectarian state let. They are done, they are a busted flush regarding a NI unionist statelet.
    That's the victory unionism doesn't want to countenance. They are at sea as an ideology, that is why they made the fatal error of backing Brexit. A dying kick.


  • #2744
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    Nate--IRL-- wrote: »
    Seems to fit.

    Nate

    Basket case came from WWI when a guy lost all arms and legs he was a "basket case"

    A basket case economy is one without hope, I don't see where they're getting any reference to mental illness from.


  • #2745
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    The British won't be shooting Irish people on Irish streets to shore up a unionist sectarian statelet again. They have conspired with the Irish government to dismantle that sectarian state let. They are done, they are a busted flush regarding a NI unionist statelet.
    That's the victory unionism doesn't want to countenance. They are at sea as an ideology, that is why they made the fatal error of backing Brexit. A dying kick.
    Sure bud, they're done but they're still here twenty years later.

    About that 100 quid?


  • #2746
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Fred is it any wonder posters here get a hard on when something bad happens in Emgland when you post childish things like that?

    Childish stuff like what? That is the reality.


  • #2747
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,864 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    Sure bud, they're done but they're still here twenty years later.

    About that 100 quid?

    They aren't really, they just monitor how much money you are wasting. They are cutting that too.
    You should have lived here 20 years and more ago. You would realise just how much they have disengaged.


  • #2748
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    They aren't really, they just monitor how much money you are wasting. They are cutting that too.
    You should have lived here 20 years and more ago. You would realise just how much they have disengaged.

    A desire not to waste money is not the same thing as disengaging politically.

    Again you're projecting your hopes into what you're seeing.


  • #2749
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,864 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Childish stuff like what? That is the reality.

    You lost the 'fleg' battle Fred, all those 'passionate' unionists are back home thinking of the next thing to be upset about. Arlene thought backing a Brext (she never believed would pass would) win her some rabble upset unionist votes but now she is furiously back pedalling in the hope no one will notice. :)


  • #2750
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    You lost the 'fleg' battle Fred, all those 'passionate' unionists are back home thinking of the next thing to be upset about. Arlene thought backing a Brexit she never believed would pass would with her some rabble votes but now she is furiously back pedalling in the hope no one will notice. :)

    Poor Fran, everyone that doesn't subscribe to your views must be a unionist.

    Wave whatever fleg you like Frannie, Londonderry is still in the UK and judging by the distinct lack of a border poll, looks to be staying that way for the foreseeable future.


  • #2751
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Childish stuff like what? That is the reality.

    The reality is that having power sharing means an ex head of the IRA, who bragged about killing British soldiers is now in power in the UK. That's the reality but I wouldn't be dickish enough to go on a British forum and remind people of that.


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  • #2752
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Poor Fran, everyone that doesn't subscribe to your views must be a unionist.

    Wave whatever fleg you like Frannie, Londonderry is still in the UK and judging by the distinct lack of a border poll, looks to be staying that way for the foreseeable future.

    Ah Fred. To be fair your posts are most definitely unionist, and the extreme kind at that.


  • #2753
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    Le Pen has said she's going to call a referendum if she wins, the polls are looking good for the EU but they looked good before Brexit too.

    Support for the EU across Europe has increased since the Brexit vote:

    https://www.ft.com/content/9cfdad52-ada7-11e6-9cb3-bb8207902122


  • #2754
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    The reality is the reality of having power sharing means an ex head of the IRA, who bragged about killing British soldiers is now in power in the UK. That's the reality but I wouldn't be dickish enough to go on a British forum and remind people of that.

    In power in the UK? A makey uppey role in a pretend government?


  • #2755
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    In power in the UK? A makey uppey role in a pretend government?

    Not really Fred. The country you're keen on keeping because empire ect ect is headed by someone who bragged about killing soldiers. Do you think most Brits want to keep that for the foreseeable future?


  • #2756
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Ah Fred. To be fair your posts are most definitely unionist, and the extreme kind at that.

    Reality Eddy, that's all.

    I care not if NI stays in the UK or not (other than living and raising a family in Ireland makes me think the fragile Irish economy just couldn't handle it).

    Truth is though, the people of the North have he best of both worlds at the moment and the longer it goes on like this, the more distant a united Ireland becomes.


  • #2757
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,864 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Poor Fran, everyone that doesn't subscribe to your views must be a unionist.

    Wave whatever fleg you like Frannie, Londonderry is still in the UK and judging by the distinct lack of a border poll, looks to be staying that way for the foreseeable future.

    I think any Irish person referencing Derry as Londonderry has occupancy of a unionist mindset or a closet they aren't willing to come out off.


  • #2758
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Not really Fred. The country you're keen on keeping because empire ect ect is headed by someone who bragged about killing soldiers. Do you think most Brits want to keep that for the foreseeable future?

    It's worth keeping just to watch republicans make fools of themselves.


  • #2759
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    I think any Irish person referencing Derry as Londonderry has occupancy of a unionist mindset or a closet they aren't willing to come out off.

    Irish person? I might live in Eire, but I'm not Irish.


  • #2760
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,864 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    In power in the UK? A makey uppey role in a pretend government?

    Get you. :):):)


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  • #2761
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    It's worth keeping just to watch republicans make fools of themselves.

    Both sides Fred. The country's a complete joke.


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