What would happen if Ireland left the EU?

MichaelKnee · 10-01-2020 07:38PM #1

As in years 1-5?

Seth Brundle · 10-01-2020 07:39PM

Years 1-5 following an exit?
We'd be fecked completely after a month!

antimatterx · 10-01-2020 07:40PM

We would become irrelevant

endacl · 10-01-2020 07:40PM

We’d sink into the Atlantic under the weight of sheer idiocy if we’d enough voters who’d choose to leave.

FrancieBrady · 10-01-2020 07:42PM

Cryptocurrency would want to spontaneously combust.

*But because of EU regulations he would probably just spontaneously smoulder.

mikemac2 · 10-01-2020 07:43PM

Back to the days of exporting cattle and young people

"We can't all live on a small island" - Brian Lenihan Sr

theguzman · 10-01-2020 07:44PM

We would regain sovereignty, housing prices and rents would come down as thousands of economic migrants would leave. The country might become affordable again and sensible people would actually have a say on our future. We would have law and order again, reintroduce he death penalty by hanging and clean up Dublin by executing johnno and deco with their 200 convictions. Will it happen? absolutely not because the pigs at the trough at the top are benefiting too much. The EU was hurting the British elite which was why they left, but it is benefiting our corrupt bourgeoisie.

RobbingBandit · 10-01-2020 07:45PM

Too much depends on EU grants in this country farming community would collapse without the subsidies from EU.

10-01-2020 07:45PM

theguzman wrote: »

We would regain sovereignty, housing prices and rents would come down as thousands of economic migrants would leave. The country might become affordable again and sensible people would actually have a say on our future. We would have law and order again, reintroduce he death penalty by hanging and clean up Dublin by executing johnno and deco with their 200 convictions. Will it happen? absolutely not because the pigs at the trough at the top are benefiting too much. The EU was hurting the British elite which was why they left, but it is benefiting our corrupt bourgeoisie.

The Daily Mail is seeking a new editor.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 10-01-2020 07:46PM

We'd take a retrograde step back 47 years. Having lived in that place I wouldn't wish it on anybody.

xlogo · 10-01-2020 07:46PM

We'll be all smoking in the pubs again

Seth Brundle · 10-01-2020 07:47PM

theguzman wrote: »

We would regain sovereignty, housing prices and rents would come down as thousands of economic migrants would leave. The country might become affordable again and sensible people would actually have a say on our future. We would have law and order again, reintroduce he death penalty by hanging and clean up Dublin by executing johnno and deco with their 200 convictions. Will it happen? absolutely not because the pigs at the trough at the top are benefiting too much. The EU was hurting the British elite which was why they left, but it is benefiting our corrupt bourgeoisie.

Forgot your meds again?

James Brown · 10-01-2020 07:48PM

FG won't have to fight for Apple to keep their 13bn owed in tax.

ChikiChiki · 10-01-2020 07:48PM

theguzman wrote: »

We would regain sovereignty, housing prices and rents would come down as thousands of economic migrants would leave. The country might become affordable again and sensible people would actually have a say on our future. We would have law and order again, reintroduce he death penalty by hanging and clean up Dublin by executing johnno and deco with their 200 convictions. Will it happen? absolutely not because the pigs at the trough at the top are benefiting too much. The EU was hurting the British elite which was why they left, but it is benefiting our corrupt bourgeoisie.

And where would we all work?

I'm under no illusions. Ireland was an absolute poverty stricken backwater prior to the EU.

A competent Govt would easily relieve a lot of the problems we have in society today including housing.

SEPT 23 1989 · 10-01-2020 07:50PM

A wetter version of the Caymen Islands

Wanderer78 · 10-01-2020 07:50PM

theguzman wrote:

We would regain sovereignty, housing prices and rents would come down as thousands of economic migrants would leave. The country might become affordable again and sensible people would actually have a say on our future. We would have law and order again, reintroduce he death penalty by hanging and clean up Dublin by executing johnno and deco with their 200 convictions. Will it happen? absolutely not because the pigs at the trough at the top are benefiting too much. The EU was hurting the British elite which was why they left, but it is benefiting our corrupt bourgeoisie.

Hahaha, hahaha, hahaha, hahaha, ffs

4068ac1elhodqr · 10-01-2020 07:52PM

Pointless asking in current context. Ireland is only 6th or 7th or so favourite, to leave.
More likely is Italy, Greece, Austria, Poland/Hungy and Sweden/Denmark - Thus ask again after they leave.

A Nordic alliance (Norway possibly too) + a the V4 alliance combined (maybe along with the Italians, even Germany) could happen 2040.
By then the rest of the Med coud be suffering with a global recession, automation, mass migration and euro-debt from the WB6/Turkey.

FrancieBrady · 10-01-2020 07:52PM

If we left we could do a trade deal with the UK!!

Kermit.de.frog · 10-01-2020 07:53PM

The way Ireland was 50 years a go is not because we weren't in the EU - it's because of the type of government and society we had.

Small sovereign countries can do very well on their own and we are far better governed and a more open society now.

I think we will have decisions to make on the EU in the next 10 - 20 years - it is heading toward a superstate and I can't see a majority of Irish people wanting that.

People praise the EU for everything here. A lot of the growth in the country would have happened regardless.

The way people go on about the EU you'd think we needed it just to breath.

Nonsense.

That's not to say there are no positives to EU membership but as more and more power is taken from our country those benefits are reducing fast.

James Brown · 10-01-2020 07:54PM

The Senate would need be expanded to facility all the former TD's looking for a handy one.

Boredstiff666 · 10-01-2020 07:55PM

antimatterx wrote: »

We would become irrelevant

Ireland is.

Boredstiff666 · 10-01-2020 07:56PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

The way Ireland was 50 years a go is not because we weren't in the EU - it's because of the type of government and society we had.

Small sovereign countries can do very well on their own and we are far better governed and a more open society now.

I think we will have decisions to make on the EU in the next 10 - 20 years - it is heading toward a superstate and I can't see a majority of Irish people wanting that.

People praise the EU for everything here. A lot of the growth in the country would have happened regardless.

The way people go on about the EU you'd think we needed it just to breath.

Nonsense.

That's not to say there are no positives to EU membership but as more and more power is taken from our country those benefits are reducing fast.

I have a feeling all those decisions will be taken for Ireland by events.

Seth Brundle · 10-01-2020 07:57PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

People praise the EU for everything here. A lot of the growth in the country would have happened regardless.

Name one foreign multinational here currently that would have had as large a presence in Ireland had we not been in the EU

4068ac1elhodqr · 10-01-2020 07:59PM

As a last resort/opportunity become the 51st state of the US (Greenland can wait).
Free beach condo in Miami for everyone, or alternatively can takes your chances on a free 6-bed 'fixer-uppper' in Detroit.
Downside: Chlorinated chicken. Upside: Fill up your new 3.0L or v12 for nothing.

Boredstiff666 · 10-01-2020 08:00PM

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Name one foreign multinational here currently that would have had as large a presence in Ireland had we not been in the EU

And you forgot the money the Gov borrowed and gave them for their factories etc which we then pay for.

Multinationals come here for access to EU and British markets. They can leave tomorrow if it suits them to the UK or another EU country........just as any other business can.

Kermit.de.frog · 10-01-2020 08:01PM

Boredstiff666 wrote: »

I have a feeling all those decisions will be taken for Ireland by events.

Ireland is a sovereign country - it can leave the EU tomorrow if it wants.

Just like every other EU country.

But there is little point in doing that unless other countries leave or we'd end up like the UK which is going to be a colony of the EU member states.

They will be taking the rules with no say at all.

We don't want to end up there.

My concern is that the EU, if the elites continue pushing ever closer union, will descend ultimately in to separatism based on violence.

Boredstiff666 · 10-01-2020 08:03PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Ireland is a sovereign country - it can leave the EU tomorrow if it wants.

Just like every other EU country.

But there is little point in doing that unless other countries leave or we'd end up like the UK which is going to be a colony of the EU member states.

They will be taking the rules with no say at all.

We don't want to end up there.

Yeah right on brother you keep banging that drum. You convinced yourself anyways.

Kermit.de.frog · 10-01-2020 08:06PM

Boredstiff666 wrote: »

Yeah right on brother you keep banging that drum. You convinced yourself anyways.

The UK will abide by EU rules or it won't trade.

Same as every other country in the EU's orbit.

Don't like it, we won't trade with you.

It's uncomfortable being on the margins of the club.

Boredstiff666 · 10-01-2020 08:08PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

The UK will abide by EU rules or it won't trade.

Same as every other country in the EU's orbit.

Don't like it, we won't trade with you.

It's uncomfortable being on the margins of the club.

Ok sit down and just wait. Only a matter of weeks now.

If life were that simple I would easily win with the magic numbers I just picked for tonight.

MoashoaM · 10-01-2020 08:09PM

the japanese would eat us alive

SEPT 23 1989 · 10-01-2020 08:09PM

We never could stand on our own two feet for very long because of the trough swilling gombeen class in this country

Maybe it’s better this way

What would happen if Ireland left the EU?

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