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Scottish Parliament rejects Brexit

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  • #102
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,097 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    They are 'Brits'.

    We're all Brits ;)


  • #103
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    Quazzie wrote: »
    We're all Brits ;)

    oh boy....somebody better put the pint glasses and sharp objects away.

    Maybe the blunt ones as well.


  • #104
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,097 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    wexie wrote: »
    oh boy....somebody better put the pint glasses and sharp objects away.

    Maybe the blunt ones as well.

    We all live on the British Isles and are therefore all Brits.


  • #105
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    Quazzie wrote: »
    We all live on the British Isles and are therefore all Brits.

    I guess that is true enough.

    Even so perhaps it's an opinion you should keep to yourself when out in public.
    (although I couldn't care less, oddly enough there are many who do)


  • #106
    Avatar MIA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    Quazzie wrote: »
    We all live on the British Isles and are therefore all Brits.

    What's this British Isles that you speak of? Is that Great Britain and the Isle of Man etc.

    Shur, are Londoners Ionaish being from the Islands Of the North Atlantic ?


  • #107
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    wexie wrote: »
    Go find the nearest Scot to you, tell them that...

    Report back here when you're out of A&E....

    Why?

    It's geographically correct.

    Maybe the odd Celtic/Hibernian plastic paddy hooligan type might take issue with the fact but i'm pretty sure it's not going to upset the average scotsman to the point of violence.

    I always find it weird how the Irish consider Britain to be England and nothing else.


  • #108
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Quazzie wrote: »
    We all live on the British Isles and are therefore all Brits.

    That's not the common usage of the term.


  • #109
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Quazzie wrote: »
    We all live on the British Isles and are therefore all Brits.

    And Britain borders the Irish sea which makes the Brits Irish!


  • #110
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,853 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    I suppose one could argue the English are the only people who aren't British as the name relates to the Pretani. The "painted people" who inhabited these islands before the coming of the Romans while English refers the later Angles, Saxons etc.


  • #111
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    donegal_man wrote: »
    I suppose one could argue the English are the only people who aren't British as the name relates to the Pretani. The "painted people" who inhabited these islands before the coming of the Romans while English refers the later Angles, Saxons etc.

    But Cumbria, Cornwall, Devon etc and interbreeding


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  • #112
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Aegir wrote: »
    The Scots hate everyone.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5lYXaVkA0U


  • #113
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,344 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    wexie wrote: »
    Go find the nearest Scot to you, tell them that...

    Report back here when you're out of A&E....

    They had their chance for independence and refused it.


  • #114
    BalcombeSt4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭BalcombeSt4


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/may/15/scottish-parliament-decisively-reject-eu-withdrawal-bill-brexit



    Well this has just turned interesting.
    Well done Scotland. Well deserved kick against the shin to the Brexiteers

    This is why the UK should break up.
    The idea of the UK is formed from 18th century imperialism.

    Republics are built on ideas from 18th century enlightenment


  • #115
    Dempsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,553 ✭✭✭✭Dempsey


    The Scots voted against deciding their own future then immediately regret their lack of backbone.

    I doubt another independence vote would pass despite all that has happened. Unionism is stronger in Scotland than people here think


  • #116
    prinzeugen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,891 ✭✭✭prinzeugen


    BalcombeSt4 wrote: »
    This is why the UK should break up.
    The idea of the UK is formed from 18th century imperialism.

    Republics are built on ideas from 18th century enlightenment

    It was Scotland's failed attempts at imperialism that got them into a union with England in the first place.

    This vote is just another pathetic attempt by Sturgeon to make her feel important.

    Nothing will come of it.


  • #117
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Quazzie wrote: »
    We all live on the British Isles and are therefore all Brits.

    More of this delusional shíte. The more power the Brits lose the more they dreg up their jingoistic terminology like this and get upset when the natives refuse to be claimed by them. Watch this space as the British plebs get more Europhobic and dream of spreading their state to cover all of Ireland again as a reaction to the turmoil of post-Brexit England, shi teíng on about how their native Irish victims suddenly have a "shared history" with their British colonial subjugators.

    Long live the EU.


  • #118
    prinzeugen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,891 ✭✭✭prinzeugen


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    More of this delusional shíte. The more power the Brits lose the more they dreg up their jingoistic terminology like this and get upset when the natives refuse to be claimed by them. Watch this space as the British plebs get more Europhobic and dream of spreading their state to cover all of Ireland again as a reaction to the turmoil of post-Brexit England, shi teíng on about how their native Irish victims suddenly have a "shared history" with their British colonial subjugators.

    Long live the EU.


    Is it just the British you have a problem with?

    No issues with that brutal imperial power and EU member that is France?

    The country that refuses to give up its past just like Britain?

    You have no issues with France insisting on having its overseas colonies in the pacific and North America on € banknotes? (Yes they are there)


  • #119
    wpd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 492 ✭✭wpd


    Scotland had their chance
    will be in great brit union and outside eu


  • #120
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    wpd wrote: »
    Scotland had their chance
    will be in great brit union and outside eu

    Especially the Irish should know that referenda can be run more than once...
    ;)


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  • #121
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Dempsey wrote: »
    The Scots voted against deciding their own future then immediately regret their lack of backbone.
    Another fine thing to thank that older generation for.


  • #122
    A Dub in Glasgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,287 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    September 2014

    https://twitter.com/uk_together/status/506899714923843584?lang=en

    davidson.jpg


  • #123
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Avatar MIA wrote: »
    Traders will still work in London while London has the advantage on internet speeds. But, should Dublin get the same or better internet connection...

    Dublin should buy one of those broadband booster things, I have one in my house and can get up to 8mbs with it, 6mbs without.


  • #124
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,530 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Aegir wrote: »
    it is a global market. 50% of cars exported from the UK don't go to the EU, so there is no problem exporting to China, Japan, the US etc.

    the automotive industry is far too important for the economies of all the major countries in europe for the issue of duty not to be resolved.
    Japan has solved their problem by doing a trade deal with the EU. So soon it may be cheaper to buy a Japanese car built in Japan than one assembled in the UK which will be subject to tariffs.


    Even if the UK does trade deals to export cars to third parties, it'll be screwed under rules of origin due to the large % of imported parts. Simply many won't be considered "UK" cars under WTO rules and so full tariffs. The large % of EU parts will also be subject to tariffs which makes UK cars less attractive for export. Also not being in the customs union means delays and time is money.


    The big problem is that all the UK car companies of any size are foreign owned, so their main competitors are other divisions of the parent multinational that has other factories within the Customs Union, like Eastern Europe including Turkey. And Turkey has to impose EU tariffs on UK imports.


    Both the US and China have already told the UK where to go regarding preferential trading. In fact the EU may impose steel dumping tariffs against China that the UK previously vetoed. Which means China may dump that steel and undermine part of what's left of the UK steel industry.


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