Brexit

[Anders]

Nothing surprises me about some of the Brexiteers, now quoting Michael Collins.

And quoting him almost totally wrong the wrong context

Britain still hasn’t left ireland 100 years later. The idiot didn’t even consider that when using Collins words to validate leaving the EU. They could well still be there in 100 years

What an ass

Absolutely. Monumental idiot.

[dimejinky99]

Nothing surprises me about some of the Brexiteers, now quoting Michael Collins.

And quoting him almost totally wrong the wrong context

Britain still hasn’t left ireland 100 years later. The idiot didn’t even consider that when using Collins words to validate leaving the EU. They could well still be there in 100 years

What an ass

Absolutely. Monumental idiot.

And he was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Goes to show they put people in that job totally unfit for it. And the overwhelming ignorance of the history of our islands in general. But that’s all brits not just the ruling class

[LetMeSleep]

Dime, is all of this helping the reunification of Ireland?

[dimejinky99]

It’s put it front and center. In everyone’s minds and conversation.
Strangely it’ll be a harder sell here than it will be in NI.
But you have loyalist gangs up north already threatening violence if the border goes in the sea ffs. Cos it ‘separates them from GB and it’s an economic United ireland’
These are fuckin clowns who don’t realize we already are hugely integrated economically and any land border will ruin NI completely and it’s already a basket case.

We’re having an election here either in November or spring depending on what brexit does. You can bet the UI topic is going to be central.

The GFA is vague about how that comes about. It just says the NI Secretary of State can call the border poll when he is satisfied it will pass and a majority in NI

What the criteria to that is, nobody really knows.
Poll results? People talking to their local MLAs?
Who knows.

We here don’t get a say when it’s called but we do have to have a referendum on it the same day as NI.
Could be bad if Ireland said no and Ni said yes or vice versa

Just don’t know but it’s all headed that way it seems. They don’t want to lose Scotland so calling a UI border poll could further the Scottish independence aim. But I think Scottish independence is just a matter of Time too.

[dimejinky99]

Good thread on that

[dimejinky99]

Dime, is all of this helping the reunification of Ireland?

Oh. And this. If we do have a general election before Christmas that is

[dimejinky99]

Boris has offered a 12 dec general election. They only have til nov 6th to decide

[96583UP]

Not really. They’ve said they want Britain out before the budget comes about and voted on to stop the brexit party MEPs disrupting the vote, as they said they will.
Whatever about Britain itself the EU are done with Farage and his parties bullshit antics

economic situation in eurozone is fragile

they don't need to make any waves

the smallest headlines still make

big, big waves

[dimejinky99]

Extension granted

[Green Habit]

Is this latest "kick the can down the road" closer to the end of the road?

[dimejinky99]

God knows. No end in sight for any of it.

[bune]

Pretty much everyone's had a take on this.

[dimejinky99]

The brextension Neverendum....

[wease]

Did we win?

[dimejinky99]

They’ve buried laws used by Henry VIII in their Bill. Yes seriously.

[bune]

I wonder if the Queen will go through with the threat of removing Johnson herself. I mean, I'm pretty sure that's why it was leaked to the press that she was researching it.

[dimejinky99]

youd Need a united majority in opposition with one leader to go to the Queen and say they can form a government for that to happen.
They could do this at any moment as he has not only no majority he’s -42.

But th opposition parties can’t get their shit together. They each want power. They each have utterly unelectable leaders. So the shitshow rolls on.

[96583UP]

the Queen should just restore the empire and rule by edict

chop off bojo's head and hang it from the tower of london

re-take india

and re-take the falklands again, just to prove a point

[dimejinky99]

The last monarch tried that, it didn’t end well. A weight was taken off their shoulders

[dimejinky99]

Corbyn has agreed to an election. We might actually be on the road to an end point. Still distant but a GE will bring about an outcome to this.