Current Affairs Irish Border and Brexit

[degsy]

May has 7 weeks to deliver this.

Border technology 'could take 10 years'

David Henig has given evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee on the border after Brexit.

www.bbc.co.uk

10 hrs eh? Strange that I use a toll road and the money is out of my account almost instantaneously.
Just like the 2 UK factions I think certain factions in the ROI government are being economical with the truth to cause embarrassment to the UK Govmt.
I wouldn't be surprised if some expect there to be automatic rifle toting balaclav wearing SAS manning the checkpoints, sorry borders

Fake news and misdirection are the order of the day a lot of the times

 

[Rob17896]

Ireland - along with 27 other nations chose to join the EU as a sovereign nation. Nobody chose to be part of the Empire Pete.

Ireland should be united and England should be left to fester and die as the small time, insular, flag waving, deluded, half-witted, backward, unproductive, second world war re-enactment society it now is. My skin crawls when I think of my nationality these days.

 

[Armaghtoffee]

10 hrs eh? Strange that I use a toll road and the money is out of my account almost instantaneously.
Just like the 2 UK factions I think certain factions in the ROI government are being economical with the truth to cause embarrassment to the UK Govmt.
I wouldn't be surprised if some expect there to be automatic rifle toting balaclav wearing SAS manning the checkpoints, sorry borders

Fake news and misdirection are the order of the day a lot of the times

10 hours?

You know that guy has nothing to do with the Irish government, right?

 

[Khalekan]

Ireland is very different and even a single border check point would become very symbolic indeed. There is unfortunately no off the shelf model that can be lifted and applied here.

Precisely.

Citing “Norway” or “technology” as having some sort of relevance the situation in Ireland is a shorthand way the likes of Peter and his heroes in the Little Englander fraternity have for saying “we don’t understand the emotions roused by the border we put in Ireland a century ago, under threat of immediate and terrible war, and quite frankly nor do we care so instead we will talk in platitudes about Norway and non existent technology”.

 

[Khalekan]

Ireland should be united and England should be left to fester and die as the small time, insular, flag waving, deluded, half-witted, backward, unproductive, second world war re-enactment society it now is. My skin crawls when I think of my nationality these days.

Indeed.

If Brexit was to serve one useful purpose it should have been for us to take the opportunity to right a great historic wrong and leave Ireland free to go its own way.

Brexit stage 2 should be to complete our withdrawal from the island of Ireland, a process began in 1922 and could easily be completed in 2022.

This was slowly inevitable before Brexit was ever dreamed off.....but Brexit has brought the timetable way forward as the unholy alliance of Tory Brexiteers, the DUP and to its shame, Corbyn’s Labour Party is in the process or making rebels of even the most moderate of Irish nationalist opinion in Northern Ireland.

 

[thirdmantackle]

Indeed.

If Brexit was to serve one useful purpose it should have been for us to take the opportunity to right a great historic wrong and leave Ireland free to go its own way.

Brexit stage 2 should be to complete our withdrawal from the island of Ireland, a process began in 1922 and could easily be completed in 2022.

This was slowly inevitable before Brexit was ever dreamed off.....but Brexit has brought the timetable way forward as the unholy alliance of Tory Brexiteers, the DUP and to its shame, Corbyn’s Labour Party is in the process or making rebels of even the most moderate of Irish nationalist opinion in Northern Ireland.

Will ye take the DUP off us?

 

[Khalekan]

Will ye take the DUP off us?

Sorry.

You get to keep Sammy Tache and his gang,

And the best of luck with that

 

[thirdmantackle]

But, but, but they claim they're british

 

[Jebus_lives]

10 hrs eh? Strange that I use a toll road and the money is out of my account almost instantaneously.
Just like the 2 UK factions I think certain factions in the ROI government are being economical with the truth to cause embarrassment to the UK Govmt.
I wouldn't be surprised if some expect there to be automatic rifle toting balaclav wearing SAS manning the checkpoints, sorry borders

Fake news and misdirection are the order of the day a lot of the times

Are you crossing borders into different countries or just crossing the Runcorn Bridge?

 

[SpongeBob brown shoes]

Ireland should be united and England should be left to fester and die as the small time, insular, flag waving, deluded, half-witted, backward, unproductive, second world war re-enactment society it now is. My skin crawls when I think of my nationality these days.

Woah there Mugabe, that's a lot of xenophobic hate right there my friend

 

[Rob17896]

Woah there Mugabe, that's a lot of xenophobic hate right there my friend

I don't think xenophobic is quite the right word as I am British. It is not hate it is contempt. Quite pleased with how it reads

 

[degsy]

Are you crossing borders into different countries or just crossing the Runcorn Bridge?

The technology is much the same, which is the whole point. 10 yrs away is a lie...any stick to whack the brits with is a good thing to some.

 

[Armaghtoffee]

The technology is much the same, which is the whole point. 10 yrs away is a lie...any stick to whack the brits with is a good thing to some.

The surveillance technology in itself may work, same as the Dublin to Kildare toll road that I often use, but neither of them are crossing a political, economic and trade border so they aren’t comparable solutions.

 

[Jebus_lives]

The technology is much the same, which is the whole point. 10 yrs away is a lie...any stick to whack the brits with is a good thing to some.

Do you ever wonder why the very same people saying 'the border problem is simple, we just use technology' are the very same people that won't agree to the backstop?

 

[peteblue]

Precisely.

Citing “Norway” or “technology” as having some sort of relevance the situation in Ireland is a shorthand way the likes of Peter and his heroes in the Little Englander fraternity have for saying “we don’t understand the emotions roused by the border we put in Ireland a century ago, under threat of immediate and terrible war, and quite frankly nor do we care so instead we will talk in platitudes about Norway and non existent technology”.

You are not under threat of immediate and terrible war. But if so, from whom, supported by whom.....