The sinn fein/irish nationalists are P ing into the wind.. whatever about Scotland.
Its a bit complicated to get into and most here wont give a toss about Irish politics,but we in the south dont want the north anymore.
They have baggage and are used to eu and more especially UK support funds.
Southern Irish economy is the EU recovery miracle :lol: ..thats from an awfull low start base and is heavily dependent on a artificially low corporation tax base.
We are in effect the corporation tax haven of easy access to europe ,a burden of a drain like the North of Ireland would send us down the toilet again.
50 or even 70(WWII) years ago when the north was the engine of Ireland and Churchill dangled the prospect of "reunification" if we would allow use of ports which had been handed back to the Irish republic(or free state as it was then known) only a few years before, might have made sense.
Now.. not gonna happen. Yes if UK had remained in ,eventually the state of Ireland like a state in the USA might have assimilated together ,not much point in having 2 state parliaments for a 5 mill island population in a United States of Europe eh?
Then again Europe had/has np in doubling up functions for civil service.
I saw some Scottish dude..snp I suppose moaning about the reason Scotland voted to stay in the UK was guaranteed membership of the EU.
I think it was actually "if you fo to form your own country you will have to try and get in to the EU on your own" :0
Some of the subleties get lost in translation.
What about the 38% of the scottish population who wanted to get out of the EU anyway.. f them along with the the british weirdos?.
Even here (Irish republic) theres whinging about the UK "betraying" the european dream.Whose dream?
Ive said before. Farage strikes me as a bit of a bleachers kid.Thats like someone who peers up hoping to catch a panty glimpse while the game is going on.Just my opinion , tho without him vote might not have been carried.
I would suggest. dont take any sheet from eurocrats,Ive seen some UK guy near crying and "I cant believe it" , but weel respect the will of the people.
Continue on the "you need us more than we need you " mindset rather than "mea culpa,what is my pennance father" attitude and itll be good..I hope.
We in southern Ireland have had the "spank the naughty schoolboy, until he gets it right" condescencion..thas 4-5 million..you guys are now 65 million,up half million in a year .. dont take any sheet.
EU expansion.. what is that? ..We, Ireland when we joined the EEC back in the 70's it was purely for cash gain, mainly guaranteed farmer prices .
What do newer members want? same thing.Being uber cynical.. the eec graduating to the EU is like a giant dole payout .
We(in Ireland have sucked it dry to the extent were now a contributor even with our massive pesonal debt per capita.
German reunification(if anyone can remember that far back) was EU/eec financed to a large extent....
hopes /aspirations n so on.
nm its late and Im rambling on.. as the post is so long most wont read half of it .
Im proud of our neighbours,dont take any sheet, from hissy fit USE dreamers and go for the eec as it was originally..Norway and Switzerland pay to be allowed in the "trade club".. maybe the UK should be paid by the 'trade club of whingers" now?
best of british !