Current Affairs Irish Border and Brexit

[peteblue]

Honestly, you'd be happy if Johnson was PM?

I think he would do well, and would deliver Brexit for the benefit of the U.K. ......

 

[Khalekan]

You are on top form tonight sir.

Thank you, Mark

 

[Ruairi77]

It depends on how you look at it I suppose.......how could anyone oppose the ROI remaining in the EU while being part of the U.K. Its a golden ticket. It’s just not an acceptable political position.......

Now I can see why Boris appeals to you!

 

[sbbefc]

I think he would do well, and would deliver Brexit for the benefit of the U.K. ......

Seriously, there have been far right eurosceptics going back years, surely there's someone willing to take up the reigns? Johnson isn't one of them, never has been. He's an absolutely usless self-serving poor language removed.

 

[The binman chronicles]

I think he would do well, and would deliver Brexit for the benefit of the U.K. ......

 

[Khalekan]

You are on top form tonight sir.

You see Mark, I have never ever came across an English person who has any interest in us keeping hold of NI.

Not among Labour voters nor among Tory voters.

I am sure such people exist but I have never met any.

As @davek pointed out in an earlier post, most people over here believe Ireland is one single jurisdiction anyway.

And you would be hard pressed finding an Englishman able to roughly draw the border if given a map of Ireland devoid of that meandering line.

 

[Eggs]

You see Mark, I have never ever came across an English person who has any interest in us keeping hold of NI.

Not among Labour voters nor among Tory voters.

I am sure such people exist but I have never met any.

As @davek pointed out in an earlier post, most people over here believe Ireland is one single jurisdiction anyway.

And you would be hard pressed finding an Englishman able to roughly draw the border if given a map of Ireland devoid of that meandering line.

...I think I would challenge the point; ‘..most people over here believe Ireland is one single jurisdiction anyway’. I would think the vast majority are aware of the Governance difference, even at a high-level.

Apologies if i’ve misread the quote.

 

[Eggs]

...seems the DUP are threatening to vote against the Budget if there is an indication any of their ‘red lines’ are being crossed.

It could get interesting.

 

[MarkK1988]

Coleraine whisky is rough, Bushmills is the one

ive got 4 bottles of bushmills, the bog standard, black, 10 year and 12 year

the tens my favorite whisky

 

[MarkK1988]

...seems the DUP are threatening to vote against the Budget if there is an indication any of their ‘red lines’ are being crossed.

It could get interesting.

Arlene clearly didnt understand what that bribe a couple of years ago was all about!

 

[Eggs]

Arlene clearly didnt understand what that bribe a couple of years ago was all about!

...it appears they are holding a strong hand of cards.

 

[MarkK1988]

...it appears they are holding a strong hand of cards.

if they have a fractured relationship it could lead to another general election?

 

[Eggs]

if they have a fractured relationship it could lead to another general election?

..I was thinking the same but the Tory’s have so much to lose if that is the end game.

 

[MarkK1988]

..I was thinking the same but the Tory’s have so much to lose if that is the end game.

think the right wing press will still win it for them you know, the mistrust of Corbyn in general is so deep

 

[davek]

...seems the DUP are threatening to vote against the Budget if there is an indication any of their ‘red lines’ are being crossed.

It could get interesting.

There'd be plenty of Blairite scabs to get her budget a majority. The last thing they want is a Labour government led by Corbyn.

The trouble for May then is that she'd effectiveley declare herself unable to govern the country via her own party and scores of Tories would see a reaching out to LP MPs (even though they are scabs and as wedded to the free market and austerity as they are) as an act of treason. She'd be knifed in the front back and sides and forced out of office. THEN comes the interesting part: a new Tory PM with no mandate from the people or the vast majority of their own party. That cant stand and then we're into unchartered waters given that these are now fixed term parliaments. The smart money though surely has to be a GE sooner rather than later. The country is a basket case politically speaking - and the tail wagging the dog right now with those Ulster Unionist knuckledraggers calling the shots underlines what a basket case it is - and that cant be allowed to carry on.