Brexit

[Eoin McLove]

CIRA out marching in Dublin and Cork over the weekend.  Could this small surge in activity be linked back to what's going on in the UK and the lack of government up North or was it always going to happen? Stormont needs to reactivate in a serious and productive way and get back to where things were with McGuinness and Paisley at the helm.  Who really wants these stupid regressive fucks back in action... leave them to drug dealing and leave politics to people who are interested in progressive dialogue.

[Ollkiller]

CIRA out marching in Dublin and Cork over the weekend.  Could this small surge in activity be linked back to what's going on in the UK and the lack of government up North or was it always going to happen? Stormont needs to reactivate in a serious and productive way and get back to where things were with McGuinness and Paisley at the helm.  Who really wants these stupid regressive fucks back in action... leave them to drug dealing and leave politics to people who are interested in progressive dialogue.

Absolute scum. Seen a few videos online of people dabbing red paint on the saoradh offices in the north and the locals telling them they're not wanted. Fair play to them.

[Pedrito]

IRA black metal cud be a seller

[livingabortion]

This gave me a laugh. According to this it will be business as usual between Ireland and England even if this "brexit" goes ahead.
They talked about the common travel area and it was written about in the memorandum of understanding (MoU).
The Memorandum of Understanding, did you ever hear such Harry Potter grade bullshit in your life? 🤣🤣🤣

And we will take the memorandum of understanding and file it in the cabinet of containment

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/08/british-irish-deal-guarantee-rights-citizens-after-brexit

[Juggz]

The shitshow has taken a few interesting twists in the last couple of weeks. Pelosi threatening to scupper a UK-US trade deal was quite a spicy meatball, as is the ongoing threat of revolt among Tory backbenchers to ensure a no-deal Brexit does not happen. It's hard to see what negotiating room Johnson has, other than driving it all off a cliff. I don't quite understand what people see in him, if there is some wicked intelligence in that skull he hides it well, so it's quite possible that's how it's going to go either way. "No deal" has been identified as the most damaging of all outcomes by their own studies, though they're playing it down.

Johnson's letter to the EU using terms like "anti-democratic" about the backstop while still hinting it's a fallback position is a little silly, as is the constant referral to alternatives without being able to explain what they are. Tusk has just shot it down and a few other EU leaders have done the same.

It's coming across like the most inept political campaign I can ever recall. I'm waiting for the UK to come up with something, anything, other than hot air but, as yet, nothing else is coming. This can't be it, surely? They have to have some idea of what they're doing?

[Eoin McLove]

Three years on and one thing is clear,  there is no plan. What can Boris do that May couldn't considering Europe have consistently said there is no room for manoeuvre.  Hadn't wait to hit the dole queue again in six months   

[Scáthach]

It certainly does not help with British mainstream news media repeating misunderstandings and worse, misrepresentations of fact. I'm seriously sick of the bullshit. Saw discussion this morning from a journalist swearing blind that the backstop would apply to the whole of the UK! Also, now successive Tory governments ceding to the position of the dup for the sake of parliamentary arithmetic. As Dr. Phil would say "How's that working out for ya?"

[Ducky]

IRA black metal cud be a seller

Giving new meaning to "blast" beats.

[Juggz]

A big day, today. How the Remain half of the country aren't out on the streets and wreckin' the gaff is a mystery.

[Pedrito]

Wow, what a move, it's a win-win for him now no matter what happens. He has done what his support want, despite the outrage, even within the Conservatives. Bit of playah this Boris lad

[Carnage]

I dunno, I reckon the first oder of business when parliament resumes will be a motion of no confidence against him. When the likes of Bercow come out against you, you know you've gone too far.

[Pedrito]

As I said win-win. His game is to show the electorate that he wants Brexit pushed through no matter what. He is upholding a democratic vote and it is the representatives of the people who would be stopping that. If they oppose him, I think he returns to office with a whole new party that would have been voted back in to support him. This is gone beyond back-stops now and is a vote for democracy as such, or at least that's how it will be sold. I think it's a ballsy move by him and will be seen that way by those who tend to vote that towards the Conservative end of things. It also brings a lot of that Brexit party vote closer to shore and offers them a viable alternative to Farage etc.

(Not saying I agree or disagree with Brexit or Boris or anything else for that matter).

[Wiseblood]

I assume the queen didn't have the authority to say "no way, now get back in there to sort it".

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

She did, but it's a power that's never used.

[Juggz]

She and Sinn Fein are alike in so many ways.