39 thoughts on “De Thursday Papers

  1. some old queen

    Poor Brexit. It’s like one of those sacred old cows that stagger around the Hindu parts of India. Not sure where it is going but demands reverence while doing it.

        1. jusayinlike

          It’s the Brit’s vying for better terms and conditions, nothing else, it’ll be reversed as soon as everyone’s happy..

          1. david

            Imagine the republic giving up its claim to northern Ireland?
            The reality of brexit is this a border between north and south
            The UK is a union of Scotland England Wales and northern Ireland
            Wake up people anyone who actually thinks the UK will give up part of its nation needs to check into a loony bin
            Get ready for no deal
            The EU will exploit this and we will be in the cross fore
            By placing the customs border on the Irish sea means that the people in northern Ireland will have their British constitutional rights removed
            Imagine if the EU split Ireland in two
            And look what happened when Catalonia decided to breakaway from Spain
            The leaders were arrested and charged with treason
            The fact our leadership are not telling us the truth shows that we are under a new master which is the reich

          2. Papi

            If you just stop using the “enter” button after every single malign utterance, people might not cop on to the fake account thing. Bye, Felicia….

          3. Nigel

            Yeah, I mean, thanks a million UK for putting threatening both the peace and prosperity of the island of Ireland for the sake of a nationalistic fever-dream and a fraudulent illusion of independence.

          4. some old queen

            This was Europe laying out the worst (or best) case scenario. It’s a reality check and the only way upon crashing out of the EU that Britain can avoid such a scenario is to renege on an international treaty which will do serious harm to their reputation.

            It is up to the British now to respond with what they think is a workable solution but a minority government with critics on all sides, the latest being John Major, and a public shifting towards remain, has an increasingly difficult struggle to even keep the show on the road let alone propose a solution no one else has thought of.

          5. some old queen

            Just one other point.

            The DUP say a sea border with do economic harm and the Irish say a hard border with do the same so who is right? Is there any trade stats about the north anywhere? What do they export and to whom?

            My guess is that the DUP are afraid that the British will start pulling the funding from the north. The government is by far the largest employer after all.

  2. petey

    the New Statesman thinks corbyn is “radical left”, bless ’em.
    btw, i can vouch that shalom auslander (TLS) is an excellent writer.

    1. david

      @bern
      So why are we poking our noses into a sovereign nations business
      The border then is of no issue if so?
      But it is because the republic is looking for unification
      As usual the amendment was to cod the unionists so by the back door the republic would get the north eventually then along came brexit
      Its very complex and unless we warn Europe there will be implications over the good Friday agreement failing due to a FU to the UK by the EU there will be consequences
      I think if a referendum was taken tomorrow regarding membership of the EU and return to violence in the north with the potential of conflict spreading down south
      I am sure the vote would be out of the EU
      Our leadership have not grasped this

  3. GiggidyGoo

    Oooooooooooohhhhhhh. Varadkar is warning May again. I bet she’s quaking.
    Notice the change this past week when Varadkar or Coveney have something to spin? The UK and the EU are always mentioned regarding the Border. Ireland has now taken a back seat. It’s EU this, UK that. Like a game of badminton and Ireland is the shuttlecock.
    The draft EU proposal is just that – a draft, and as Varadkar would like to remind people, D R A F T.
    FG sell-out central, Tory’s ‘R US.

    1. david

      A time goes on the truth emerges
      There will be a border and the severity of what we face will be the result of the EU punishing the UK
      I do not know why a duplicate trade deal with the UK can be placed ensuring trade remains the same
      It seems the EU negotiated a Canadian deal with zero tariffs enabling cheap bras into Ireland and third world good in to undercut our own
      Cheap Chinese goods GM crops cheap agriculture
      No this is all about punishing the UK and we are being used just like when the crash happened
      Its time our leaders were told back the UK

    2. david

      Leo the cheque is in the post varadka seems to have delusions of grandeur
      His little team playing at politics like little children with their new toy
      But sadly for us we are the ones that will be tasked with the aftermath
      We the taxpayer will be the ones that suffer and our children
      It appears this country has no plan b
      We are a nation of sheep heading to the cliff edge

      1. Papi

        Have you considered writing a book? Cos you are fascinating. And don’t use “We”, there’s a good chap.

  4. david

    Strange they are using snowfall in inches in Europe on the news and cm in Ireland in the news
    Seems to me 5.8 cm sounds more impressive than 2 inches

        1. Janet, I ate my Avatar

          I’m starting to worry we are teasing someone missing the humour section of the mind
          I’d feel mean

          1. bisted

            …a lot of his comments seem to have gone through Google translate…they have a humour by-pass…

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