Taoiseach Leo Varadkar (left) and Tanaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney
Great to see more people recognising the terrible handling of Brexit negotiations by Leo & his Government. Their inexperience, arrogance & Eurofanaticism could lead to the economic ruin of this country. If that happens, hopefully they take our sycophantic media down with them. https://t.co/ZQdtwYz1o1
— Robert Burke (@robertburke84) July 29, 2019
I’ve been shocked at two dinners recently when Tories of influence have told me privately “Varadkar isn’t bright” and “the Irish will blink” and it seems, amazingly, that this is the actual policy of HMG under Johnson. They are anti-Irish, arrogant, dangerous and wrong.
— David Yelland (@davidyelland) July 29, 2019
I think we (UK) should simply invade Ireland (military wise), peacefully as there wouldn’t be a resistance. Dissolve the Irish gvt partially, job done. Ireland leaves with the rest of the people that have been carrying it for centuries. 👍🏼
— Michael Middleton (@MichaelPeterAnt) July 29, 2019
Oh.
Pound falls lower on no-deal Brexit prospect (BBC)
Meanwhile…
RTÉ's Tommie Gorman reports that there was absolutely no meeting of minds on the crucial issue of #Brexit in the phone call between @LeoVaradkar and @BorisJohnson pic.twitter.com/WJ7bl2Dp5F
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) July 30, 2019
charger has mates.
who knew?
Or a twitter account.
The search for scapegoats and the allocation of blame is in full-on mode.
Is that Michael Middleton one toungue-in-cheek?
Hard to know these days.
Yeah I looked at the rest of his twitter feed. I wasn’t sure afterwards.
He seemed to pull his neck about halfway down the response feed with the “lighten up,it’s a joke,you know my humour”….plonker…
Remember that famous LBC talk show where one of the callers suggested the same thing? Admittedly, he started out saying that they should invade Northern Ireland…https://www.joe.co.uk/politics/brexit-ireland-lbc-invade-224454
Also this wonderful one: go to war: https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/clive-bull/brexiteer-has-solution-irish-border-problem-war/
Dominic Cummings works for the unelected British tea boy Taoiseach so an online campaign against Ireland and Ireland’s insistence on the backstop is hardly surprising.
If the UK choose to leave without a deal then they will only have themselves to blame.
always feel bad for nominally patriotic far right Irish people when they feel the need to row in behind British right wing interests. cog dis must be something else.
Timmy Dooley’s asking somebody to hold his beer…
…Ireland, more than most know how perfidious Albion can be…the need for a backstop position becomes more obvious by the day…the most impressive thing from Varadkar and Coveney lately is their assertion that they will not stand idly by in the event of a no deal…
Blow Job said he would not meet ANY of the EU leaders until they drop the backstop and yet- that is somehow Leo’s fault? .
Is he going to meet Mary Lou? Oh to be a fly on the wall for that one.
talking about taking a pounding, sterling has entered a not-unexpected freefall:
“Tin hats time: All the stops are out and the Pound is now in free fall:
Only the Madagascan Ariary performed worse than the British pound today as sterling slipped into free-fall.
Declines of more than 1 per cent were seen against major currencies as the UK’s new Prime Minister Boris Johnson cements his administration’s commitment to a no-deal.
Johnson told reporters in Scotland that he wants to make it “absolutely clear that the backstop is no good, it’s dead, it’s got to go” and that the Withdrawal Agreement is dead too.
The hardened rhetoric suggests that the gap between the EU and UK might simply be too wide to bridge if a ‘no deal’ Brexit is to be avoided.
The Pound-to-Dollar exchange rate slipped to its lowest since March 2017, while the Pound-to-Euro exchange rate hit its lowest quotation since September 2017.
Neil Wilson, Chief Market Analyst for Markets.Com, said: “Tin hats time: All the stops are out and the Pound is now in free fall.”
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/pound-sterling-second-worst-performing-currency-in-the-world-today-pipped-only-by-the-madagascan-ariary/29/07/
Not sure whether it was reprobertie or cian (?) who predicted it last week, but it was charger who scoffed at the mere suggestion
at least he seems to know about cricket
Rather depressingly there are many in the UK who are convinced that ‘Ireland will blink’. It’s a nice and easy attitude to have and allows them to ignore the fact that’s it’s the German and French backstop. They don’t like to think that as it’s all too real all of a sudden. They’ll learn. After their no-deal they still have to negotiate a trade deal. Guess what the first 3 conditions will be.
Go. And. Poop?
Varadkar has a spring in his step at last.
Boris has called him from No 10.
It’s only taken a week.
Yeah, it only took old Bojo a week to realise that his public grandstanding and bluster was being reported across the EU so he’d better smooth things over with Leo and explain that they will of course be doing a deal but he has a script to follow first.