Taoiseach @campaignforleo sets out his four priorities for #Brexit deal | https://t.co/vO4Ugvwzxc pic.twitter.com/vSE8Xz3ds3
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) October 4, 2018
This afternoon.
Brussels, Belgium.
Top, from left: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Michel Barnier, European Chief Negotiator for the United Kingdom Exiting the European Union and Phil Hogan (European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development) following a bilateral meeting on Brexit.
European Council President Donald Tusk said:
“…the task of the EU’s negotiator is to defend the interest of the EU as a whole and of all the 27 member states. We very much regret the UK has decided to leave, and we hope for the best relationship in the future.
“But no-one can expect that the EU will give up its fundamental values and key interests. Let me make this clear, the EU wants a relationship with the UK that is as close and special as possible.“
Tusk says UK’s Soviet Union remarks ‘unwise’ and ‘insulting’ (RTÉ)
Yesterday: ‘Put Some lead Into The Collective Pencil’
Varadker’s such an incompetent schoolboy. We need a proper person for this Brexit negotiation. Time for new elections.
Nah,Mr and Mrs Paddy love him because he’s sticking it up to de Brits,like.
Sad to see Ireland the performing poodle in the EU circus at the possible expense of the people back home who,by and large,care more about their jobs than a border they never cross.
The same EU that trampled all over Ireland in the bailout and made the citizens of this country suck it up for decades to come.
The second Lisbon Treaty vote really was the day this country lost its soul and independence.
What a bore you are.
Well said Oliver.
You’ll be scorned of course for your honestly but the honesty is Ireland is scarce commodity.
lol
We all know you’re real name is Ulick.
In a relationship with Eileen Over.
Well said Ollie – on this one.
that fifteenth choc ice has given you brain-freeze lad.
how long has it been since you’ve seen your mickey?
When I pulled it out of your mother this morning …
And again when I immediately disinfected it …
Because your sister said she liked a clean and tidy workplace …
she really is a top notch glansectomist. hope the rest of reassignment surgery works out for you hon xx
Lovely.
On a COMPLETELY unrelated topic, I wonder why so few women comment on Broadsheet any more?
I love it’s seedy undertones.
This place is getting to be as bad as boards.ie or politics.ie
boards.ie has actual moderation. Valid point on the lack of women commentators these days mind.
Someone should tell Leo to shut up.A bit like Boris.Are they twins ?
This is a genuine question. What part of what he’s reported to have said in that article caused you to say he should shut up? I don’t think he’s said anything controversial or Boris-like at all there.
I’m all for calling out stupid statements by politicians when they make them, but I don’t see anything in this.
This is all he’s reported as having said:
Following Mr Tusk’s remarks, Mr Varadkar said the negotiations were entering a critical and penultimate phase.
He said Ireland had four objectives, “all aimed at minimising the damage to our country”, and these had remained unchanged from the start of the process.
They included protecting the Common Travel Area, the peace process, the rights of Irish citizens in Northern Ireland, and to have a trading relationship with the UK which was as close as possible.
“I’m very keen to see agreement concluded by November if at all possible,” he said.
“It’s in the interests of Ireland, the EU and UK and I think we all really need to get down to business over the next few weeks and make that possible.”
The site owner clearly approve of this bile Q47. A couple of thugs being allowed to log in under half a dozen usernames is ‘robust’ debate apparently.
Leo said nothing out of the way this time,just reiterated what Barnier said.The mans not had an original idea since he decided to buy red socks once.He’s constantly bad mouthing the Brits who are probably our best friends when it comes down to it.I would rather trust the Brits any day than Juncker and co.
the Brits who are probably our best friends when it comes down to it.
The Brits are this and the Germans are that and after 40 years of voluntarily integration into a closer Europe, it is all going to be gorgeous because the very upper end of English society says so.
On what planet do you normally hang out?
You certainly don’t live in the real world.Ireland was treated like poo during the bailout or have you had head up your a….
Ireland was not the only country to bail out the banks, Britain did it too, as did a number of other EU countries. The problem was that if Ireland let them fall, the domino effect right across Europe would have been catastrophic.
And, the reason Ireland fell hardest was because of mismanagement by our own government. THEY let the economy overheat to the point where a crash was inevitable and the electorate still haven’t forgiven FF for it.
Ollie should be added to the list as well.
It would be rad if people starting thinking about Ireland leaving the EU and becoming part of the UK, like Scotland and Wales. We could keep the Irish language, (certain it would flourish). Am I leaving anything out that is intrinsically Irish? That seems like a good alternative and would solve a lot of problems.
You haven’t factored in the overwhelming opposition of the people of the UK to Ireland joining the union.
Particularly after the ingratitude shown since the UK threw this country a €3.5billlion lifeline when no-one else would touch it with a barge-pole and after decades of being a safe haven for Irish economic migrants.
When Brexit is over and Ireland comes looking for support next time as it always does every generation or so I think you’ll find sympathy will be in short supply.
The British and Irish people have always had a good relationship but Ireland has been consistently let down by sub-standard and amateurish politicians it elects to government.
after brexit there won’t be a UK.
After the UK implodes:
What will happen to Gibraltar?
And to the channel islands?
And Isle of Man?
And the Falklands?
“Ireland has been consistently let down by sub-standard and amateurish politicians it elects to government”
You mean like theresa may and boris johnson….
“The British and Irish people have always had a good relationship” say’s the man using the alias Oliver Cromwell.
Now I definitely know you’re a troll.
your handle/user-name is very good considering the nature of the post :)
So far during the Sasamach negotiations the Brits have:
– Accused the EU of bullying
– Signed up to an agreement they presumed they could just ignore
– Insisted there was never a hard border in Ireland
– Tried to undermine Michel Barnier via ambassadors talking to heads of state
– Offered the same plan to the EU three times
– Compared the EU to the Soviet Union
– Admitted their intent to try and undermine Michel Bariner by having their Taoiseach ring round the EU27 leaders
– Accused the EU of being disrespectful
In the face of all this unprofessional behaviour, Michel Barnier is still insisting that the EU wants a close relationship with the UK. If the Brits walk away with no deal they will have nobody to blame but themselves.
The tories dont want a deal. They want to turn it into a deregulated poohole tax haven for the super rich.
You know the way ollie bleats on about the pressure of providing services to 20 odd thousand immigrants? Guess where theyre going to come from in the next few years?
The EU want to have their boot on the UK’s neck as much as possible – do everything they can to undermine UK democracy and democratic institutions through a variety of underhanded ways, firstly by offering trade terms unbecoming of the 36 year “partner” (at least relative to what Norway and Switzerland avail of) and other more devious ways such as putting the Taoiseach of Ireland in an embarrassing position where he has to declare his loyalties and not ask for a unilateral channel of communication to expedite the Brexit process (and honour the GFA). Then put the media machine to work in portraying the UK as a deeply divided union with terrible leadership that is truly sorry for how it voted – and in the process portray Brexit as having nothing to do with the desire to retain sovereign right and self-determination, but everything to do with xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, Islamophobia and general intolerance – but never draw their attention to the insidious and obvious situation where the leader of govt is openly a Remainer and the leader of the opposition (who declares himself to stand against all those nasty things Brexit is supposedly about) is a closet Brexiteer – in a word, absurd to think the EU are helping anything. Never turn your back on a knife they say…
Or, to put it another way, the EU want to protect the integrity of the union rather than give the UK the benefits of membership without the responsibilities.
It’s all about how you do. The power has clearly gone to their head – word is they have updated their rhetoric and the Euroskeptic is now to be called a Europhobe. Them be fightin’ words, no?
But the UK IS a deeply divided union with terrible leadership so it doesn’t take the EU to point that out. The majority now want to remain because they did not sign up to this shambles and they are running a very high risk of civil disturbance in NI with this madness. Even if May comes back with some sort of cobbled together deal AND the Tories don’t eat themselves, Labour are waiting in the long grass. How the hell is the CBI meant to plan for anything with that level of uncertainty? Britain is heading for a constitutional crisis no matter which way you look at it.
As for xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, and Islamophobia, the level of violent attacks against those listed have skyrocketed since Brexit so the facts speak for themselves. There has always been a certain level of intolerance in parts of English society except now it is front centre and it is ugly.