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[peteblue]

Money, pete.

In what form.....

 

[peteblue]

Oh dear, sinking low again Pete? Appalling remark ...the sun went down on the Empire ages ago...get over it..you lost !!

Just a genuine question as to what we extracted from Ireland. If you don’t know, then say so, if you do then please enlighten us because no one else is.......

 

[JimmyJeffers]

The British Empire saw our people go around the world. We extracted value from most countries, gold, precious metals, food, wood and other materials etc. Can you tell me what we extracted from Ireland other than potatoes and meat...which we could grow and rear here anyway......

 

[SteveSC]

So you believe it’s cheaper to have a three party supply chain rather than a two party supply chain...I did work for the government, I didn’t work for the government, and I do know how business works. Besides running some fairly large elements of multinational large companies, I also ran a number of smaller companies besides two other companies that I fully owned and an additional one that I am a partner in. So you can test me in any way you wish on running a business because I do have a clue what is involved. I’ll grant you that my history of Ireland may not go back 800 years, which is why I asked you......,

Pete not every production company deals directly with customers in foreign nations you know that. Most now have distributors to do that for them. It would be way too costly for them. It's much easier to send one large shipment to a company who can then move it on to each customer.

It sounds like in this case the Coffee company is now going to deal direct as a result of Brexit and not use the distributor in the UK to deliver their goods to Ireland.

 

[Khalekan]

Newsflash. We don’t want you!......

Unfortunately we do seem to want them, Peter.

If we had let them all go a century ago, or let the fourth green field go tomorrow, all our Brexit problems would have long since disappeared

Oh, the irony.......

 

[tsubaki]

In what form.....

In the form of rents, taxes and whatnot. Collecting of such revenues were quite a significant contributor to the wealth of the Empire - for example, from the 1760s the East India Company got far more in territorial revenues than it ever did from trade (and of course you see the same famines, reductions in output and local wealth in India as one finds in Ireland)

 

[Brisan123]

...ahh, sorry. Underlines my ignorance of NI politics right there.

Is there any chance of Sinn Fein now taking up their seats at Westminster just to protect the GFA?

i doubt that will ever happen
The whole pledging allegiance to the queen is a major issue

 

[peteblue]

Pete not every production company deals directly with customers in foreign nations you know that. Most now have distributors to do that for them. It would be way too costly for them. It's much easier to send one large shipment to a company who can then move it on to each customer.

It sounds like in this case the Coffee company is now going to deal direct as a result of Brexit and not use the distributor in the UK to deliver their goods to Ireland.

Indeed, and if the Italian supplier has any sense they will distribute to one Irish distributor, and I hope it works well. They should have been doing it anyway.....

 

[SteveSC]

Indeed, and if the Italian supplier has any sense they will distribute to one Irish distributor, and I hope it works well. They should have been doing it anyway.....

It's possibly what they are looking into now they are avoiding the UK. It could be the current distributor may setup elsewhere too. Who knows.

 

[peteblue]

In the form of rents, taxes and whatnot. Collecting of such revenues were quite a significant contributor to the wealth of the Empire - for example, from the 1760s the East India Company got far more in territorial revenues than it ever did from trade (and of course you see the same famines, reductions in output and local wealth in India as one finds in Ireland)

The clue is in the name though, the East India Company. They were not in Ireland, so who and what was doing what you suggest.....

 

[Brisan123]

I think you're right. In normal times I'd expect that to hold, but with the fate of the GFA in the balance.....

I read earlier that there might be some change in the leadership of that party and wondered whether it might be linked to this issue. But yeah, it pretty much is a red line they cant go beyond if they want to retain credibility amongst Nationalists.

Sinn fein are playing a bigger game than NI politics
They are becoming a force in the Republic as well and that is where their main focus will shift.
There are reasons behind that as well

 

[peteblue]

It's possibly what they are looking into now they are avoiding the UK. It could be the current distributor may setup elsewhere too. Who knows.

Indeed, there will be a fair bit of this, but businesses will react and adjust....they always do....

 

[peteblue]

Anyway, enough about Ireland.....

 

[dholliday]

Anyway, enough about Ireland.....

what did the irish ever do for us anyway?

 

[tsubaki]

The clue is in the name though, the East India Company. They were not in Ireland, so who and what was doing what you suggest.....

Its motto translated as "By command of the King and Parliament of England" ". That is the only clue you'll get.