Former British minister proposes implementing food shortages for Ireland

Captain Obvious · 07-12-2018 11:37AM #1

The Brits are at it again. Want to starve us into submission.

AS UK PRIME Minister Theresa May has just five days to try to rally support for her Brexit deal, a Tory MP has suggested using the possibility of food shortages to Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit to encourage the EU to drop the backstop.

https://www.thejournal.ie/brexit-threat-food-shortages-ireland-4381228-Dec2018/

How are you going to prepare for the next famine?

07-12-2018 11:39AM

A priti outlandish threat.

Mickeroo · 07-12-2018 11:42AM

Isn't "Tory MP" a synonym for "knows absolutely nothing about Ireland"?

DrumSteve · 07-12-2018 11:46AM

Good thing we're not fussy eaters anymore

Deebles McBeebles · 07-12-2018 11:48AM

Captain Obvious wrote: »

How are you going to prepare for the next famine?

Figure out how to can breakfast rolls.

For Forks Sake · 07-12-2018 11:53AM

Mickeroo wrote: »

Isn't "Tory MP" a synonym for "knows absolutely nothing about Ireland"?

...or anything else for that matter

buried · 07-12-2018 11:54AM

Don't eat bovril, HP sauce or Ready Brexit myself so should be grand.

biko · 07-12-2018 12:00PM

Qu'ils mangent de la brioche

07-12-2018 12:14PM

Quick, rush out and buy 87 loaves of Brennan’s bread before it’s too late.

FrancieBrady · 07-12-2018 12:23PM

How proud her Indian ancestors must be of her success in the British Tory party of Winston Churchill. Many Indians remember auld Winston with fondness no doubt.
https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/

07-12-2018 12:29PM

Probably a trick she picked up from her Israeli buddies

07-12-2018 12:32PM

This idea sums up Brexit nicely.

BeerWolf · 07-12-2018 12:33PM

Keep ye ol' blight off me taters!

wakka12 · 07-12-2018 12:37PM

Bad out

TheValeyard · 07-12-2018 12:47PM

Sycamore Tree · 07-12-2018 12:51PM

Those blighters!

SEPT 23 1989 · 07-12-2018 12:57PM

Perfect solution to the obesity problem

sjb25 · 07-12-2018 01:06PM

Oh hey MP Priti Patel let me speak for the nation here actually Europe we have had a think about your leverage and we have made a decision as we are concerned

Please find attached our answer to reconsider our position

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 07-12-2018 01:07PM

Potatoes. Be fine. As long as they don't stop the salt and vinegar. Or the batter burgers.

buried · 07-12-2018 01:09PM

Doing us a favour anyways. English cuisine dont look all that healthy

Deebles McBeebles · 07-12-2018 01:11PM

^^^ Belgium and Denmark will not be happy with you for that one.

Amirani · 07-12-2018 02:25PM

FrancieBrady wrote: »

How proud her Indian ancestors must be of her success in the British Tory party of Winston Churchill. Many Indians remember auld Winston with fondness no doubt.
https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/

Lots of Indians did very well out of British rule (similar to how many Irish did well when they were here). Happy to be proven wrong, but I dare say her Indian ancestors weren't sitting at the bottom of the caste system.

On her point in general, she doesn't have a clue.

FrancieBrady · 07-12-2018 02:34PM

Amirani wrote: »

Lots of Indians did very well out of British rule (similar to how many Irish did well when they were here). Happy to be proven wrong, but I dare say her Indian ancestors weren't sitting at the bottom of the caste system.

On her point in general, she doesn't have a clue.

Lots of Irish did well out of the British too. Would you excuse their offspring for making a tasteless, insulting comment like Pritti's?

Britain is currently losing the plot never mind credibility.

Grayson · 07-12-2018 02:38PM

Mickeroo wrote: »

Isn't "Tory MP" a synonym for "knows absolutely nothing about Ireland"?

We had one that thought any english person could pop over here and get an Irish passport. And an NI secretary who knew absolutely nothing about the politics of the north.

klaaaz · 07-12-2018 02:49PM

She should be arrested for racism, conspiracy to use genocide against another nation. Just shows that some English Tory extremists are willing to commit mass murder in order to get their own way. Thankfully a good many English people see them for what they are and condemn their racism.

Skelet0n · 07-12-2018 02:57PM

Amirani wrote: »

FrancieBrady wrote: »

How proud her Indian ancestors must be of her success in the British Tory party of Winston Churchill. Many Indians remember auld Winston with fondness no doubt.
https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/

Lots of Indians did very well out of British rule (similar to how many Irish did well when they were here). Happy to be proven wrong, but I dare say her Indian ancestors weren't sitting at the bottom of the caste system.

On her point in general, she doesn't have a clue.

Her family worked for HMG in Uganda.

Agricola · 07-12-2018 03:11PM

If we weren't so closely affected by it, Brexit would be wonderful entertainment.

Gotta love watching these Tory cúnts tear each other apart as the irresistible force that is nostalgic imperialism meets the immovable object of hard reality.

Yikes! · 07-12-2018 03:14PM

Not bothered. We always have the spuds to fall back on.

Odhinn · 07-12-2018 03:14PM

Skelet0n wrote: »

Her family worked for HMG in Uganda.

Using native Africans to run the place meant that a section of population would have to be given privileges, access to education and so on, with a risk that -despite their well off status - they might make common cause with their country men and rise against british rule. Bringing in subjects from other colonies to act as a governing class lessened the risk. Divide and conquer writ bold and clear.

Red_Wake · 07-12-2018 03:14PM

I was going on a diet anyway.

Gimme A Pound · 07-12-2018 03:16PM

Amirani wrote: »

Lots of Indians did very well out of British rule (similar to how many Irish did well when they were here). Happy to be proven wrong, but I dare say her Indian ancestors weren't sitting at the bottom of the caste system.

On her point in general, she doesn't have a clue.

Yeah a British guy I work with is half Indian - says that side of his family are well into all the lickspittling of the royals and waxing lyrical about the greatness of the empire etc.

You see Irish people here going on with that toadying sh1t too.

Former British minister proposes implementing food shortages for Ireland

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