Current Affairs EU In or Out

In or Out

  • In

    Votes: 688 67.9%

  • Out

    Votes: 325 32.1%
  • Total voters
    1,013
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Armaghtoffee said:
Again you dismiss Ireland as a bargaining chip.

And again you say it’s over...

You have been saying this for 2 years and proven to be wrong. Jesus wept, flick on the news Pete.

Im not even attempting to debate economies here, I am just re-stating what I have done for years that Brexit will hinge on how London resolves their own border.
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Yet you still cannot accept that you were a bargaining chip.I understand your pride in your country, but out of 500 million people in the EU, you barely register. You seem to believe that the EU revolves around you, it doesn’t, and once Brexit is done you will be ignored apart form any fishing interests. I’ve spent a professional lifetime explaining the facts of life to people who believe they are important when they are not. The U.K. is a minor player in the world, significant but minor. The ROI does not register. You are a lovely people in a lovely country, just accept what you are. I accept that the U.K. is a small country in the world, we don’t need to be a great power, just one that does well for its people and can defend itself against any potential threat.....
 
peteblue said:
Yet you still cannot accept that you were a bargaining chip.I understand your pride in your country, but out of 500 million people in the EU, you barely register. You seem to believe that the EU revolves around you, it doesn’t, and once Brexit is done you will be ignored apart form any fishing interests. I’ve spent a professional lifetime explaining the facts of life to people who believe they are important when they are not. The U.K. is a minor player in the world, significant but minor. The ROI does not register. You are a lovely people in a lovely country, just accept what you are. I accept that the U.K. is a small country in the world, we don’t need to be a great power, just one that does well for its people and can defend itself against any potential threat.....
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That reads really Pete.
 
peteblue said:
Yet you still cannot accept that you were a bargaining chip.I understand your pride in your country, but out of 500 million people in the EU, you barely register. You seem to believe that the EU revolves around you, it doesn’t, and once Brexit is done you will be ignored apart form any fishing interests. I’ve spent a professional lifetime explaining the facts of life to people who believe they are important when they are not. The U.K. is a minor player in the world, significant but minor. The ROI does not register. You are a lovely people in a lovely country, just accept what you are. I accept that the U.K. is a small country in the world, we don’t need to be a great power, just one that does well for its people and can defend itself against any potential threat.....
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Even by your high standards, this is a ludicrous post when Johnson has just sold out 1.8 million British citizens. Reunification is almost guaranteed now (if this deal passes).
 
peteblue said:
Yet you still cannot accept that you were a bargaining chip.I understand your pride in your country, but out of 500 million people in the EU, you barely register. You seem to believe that the EU revolves around you, it doesn’t, and once Brexit is done you will be ignored apart form any fishing interests. I’ve spent a professional lifetime explaining the facts of life to people who believe they are important when they are not. The U.K. is a minor player in the world, significant but minor. The ROI does not register. You are a lovely people in a lovely country, just accept what you are. I accept that the U.K. is a small country in the world, we don’t need to be a great power, just one that does well for its people and can defend itself against any potential threat.....
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Pete. I have one word - why?

Waste time writing such gibberish.

For a minor nation we have held centre ground determining whether Brexit happens. The EU have not thrown us under a bus. The very opposite.

In that post Brexit world your first dash will be to Washington. Good luck with Congress if your fellow countrymen share a similar sentiment towards the emerlad isle.
 
peteblue said:
Yet you still cannot accept that you were a bargaining chip.I understand your pride in your country, but out of 500 million people in the EU, you barely register. You seem to believe that the EU revolves around you, it doesn’t, and once Brexit is done you will be ignored apart form any fishing interests. I’ve spent a professional lifetime explaining the facts of life to people who believe they are important when they are not. The U.K. is a minor player in the world, significant but minor. The ROI does not register. You are a lovely people in a lovely country, just accept what you are. I accept that the U.K. is a small country in the world, we don’t need to be a great power, just one that does well for its people and can defend itself against any potential threat.....
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So you were important then. Obviously you think you were more important than those who were on the receiving end of your explanations. I wonder what they though.
 
mellowblue said:
Can't wait for my weekly food bill to go down after 31/10..also my utilities payments, car insurance, and all the other wonderful benefits promised after leaving...it won't benefit me at all. If any of you leavers on here can enlighten me then I would be greatful..thanks in advance.
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you will get a blue passport and tell all them pesky foreigners to feck off
 
Armaghtoffee said:
That reads really Pete.
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I’m sorry, but we all are what we are. I know that the U.K. is not some global empire as it once was, we are what we are, and I’m quite happy to be a nondescript country able to trade, provide employment, have a decent standard of living and still be a military player. The ROI has all of these things apart from the last one, but you don’t actually need it. Just be happy with what you are. I would love to live in the ROI and just accept we are what we are, a lovely place to live....
 
peteblue said:
No mate. You are believing that you are being dismissed and demeaned. Of course both NI and ROI have their own interests and as you say they are in the GFA. But in the big world, and I know this will sound terrible, but there are only so many countries that the EU and the rest of the world take seriously, and the ROI is not one of them. The U.K. , like it or lump it is unfortunately a big player. This is due to economy, political clout and military strength. Now you can do any analysis that you want, but the ROI does not register on any of those measures. I know it’s not fair but it is what it is.....you were a bargaining chip between two major players, you played it well, but it’s now over......
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Bonnie Greer and the speaker of the house in the states might disagree with you
 
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