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 corkery  Cork City 04 Feb 21 5.49pm |
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The DUP needs the protocol gone. If they don't then they might not win this Summer's election.
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steeleye20  Croydon 04 Feb 21 6.00pm |
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Originally posted by corkery
The DUP needs the protocol gone. If they don't then they might not win this Summer's election. Van Leyden had a real mare over vaccines, in fact she acted promptly to overturn the decision made by her deputy, but hey that's politics. But she must really stay out of Irish politics altogether, the deal was done. Will the North ditch the Union, C ?
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| corkery Cork City 04 Feb 21 7.04pm |
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Originally posted by steeleye20
Van Leyden had a real mare over vaccines, in fact she acted promptly to overturn the decision made by her deputy, but hey that's politics. But she must really stay out of Irish politics altogether, the deal was done. Will the North ditch the Union, C ?
The Downing St declaration means it's up to the people in NI. This generation will need to die before any referendum. Nobody wants Northern Ireland anyway. British and Irish people both claim to love the place, sing songs about the place but it's a black hole for money. Regardless of what side you're on (I'm on neither). The main thing is peace there. Edited by corkery (04 Feb 2021 7.25pm)
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| croydon proud Any european country i fancy! 04 Feb 21 7.42pm |
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Originally posted by corkery
The Downing St declaration means it's up to the people in NI. This generation will need to die before any referendum. Nobody wants Northern Ireland anyway. British and Irish people both claim to love the place, sing songs about the place but it's a black hole for money. Regardless of what side you're on (I'm on neither). The main thing is peace there. Edited by corkery (04 Feb 2021 7.25pm) Mary Lou Mcdonald was on form today, she said the D.U.P wanted brexit, signed up to it, now the real;ity of it has hit they have to take the consequences, true enough, dont get what you shouted for, then try and change it when you have it.
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| chris123 hove actually 04 Feb 21 7.45pm |
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Originally posted by corkery
The Downing St declaration means it's up to the people in NI. This generation will need to die before any referendum. Nobody wants Northern Ireland anyway. British and Irish people both claim to love the place, sing songs about the place but it's a black hole for money. Regardless of what side you're on (I'm on neither). The main thing is peace there. Edited by corkery (04 Feb 2021 7.25pm) Maybe they should think of a third option, an independent NI. I worked for DuPont in the 1980's and they had a plant in Maydown. A subsidiary was Conoco and I also worked in Aberdeen. At the time there was more nationalism in the North than in NE Scotland.
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 SW19 CPFC Addiscombe West 07 Feb 21 9.47am |
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Great result on the vaccine But exports down, allegedly, 68% Chimes with the nightmare retail businesses were kicking off about last month. Not even sure if that’s possible to rectify - resolving it would surely mean rejoining the single market Retail start ups and SMEs are screwed
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cryrst  The garden of England 07 Feb 21 11.05am |
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Originally posted by SW19 CPFC
Great result on the vaccine But exports down, allegedly, 68% Chimes with the nightmare retail businesses were kicking off about last month. Not even sure if that’s possible to rectify - resolving it would surely mean rejoining the single market Retail start ups and SMEs are screwed Tbh if this number stays after 6 months or so then yes a cause for concern but we are just 6 weeks into brexit. We are rewriting a 40 odd year system.
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| Stirlingsays 07 Feb 21 11.08am |
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Originally posted by corkery
The Downing St declaration means it's up to the people in NI. This generation will need to die before any referendum. Nobody wants Northern Ireland anyway. British and Irish people both claim to love the place, sing songs about the place but it's a black hole for money. Regardless of what side you're on (I'm on neither). The main thing is peace there. Edited by corkery (04 Feb 2021 7.25pm) Like the rest of Ireland then. All the British isles countries live considerably beyond their means.....the English though have much more economic muscle.
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| steeleye20 Croydon 07 Feb 21 4.38pm |
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Originally posted by SW19 CPFC
Great result on the vaccine But exports down, allegedly, 68% Chimes with the nightmare retail businesses were kicking off about last month. Not even sure if that’s possible to rectify - resolving it would surely mean rejoining the single market Retail start ups and SMEs are screwed There is no reason why EU consumers would buy from the UK now. That figure is with grace periods which will end soon.
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| SW19 CPFC Addiscombe West 07 Feb 21 4.40pm |
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Originally posted by cryrst
Tbh if this number stays after 6 months or so then yes a cause for concern but we are just 6 weeks into brexit. We are rewriting a 40 odd year system. A lot of ifs there I fail to understand why a contingency could not have been devised in the four years (four) prior in case this scenario arose. It’s not like this is a minority industry with a small economic contribution. On the list of ‘pretty s*** things that could happen’ I’d say it would have been comfortably nestling in their top 10
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| cryrst The garden of England 07 Feb 21 7.36pm |
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Originally posted by SW19 CPFC
A lot of ifs there I fail to understand why a contingency could not have been devised in the four years (four) prior in case this scenario arose. It’s not like this is a minority industry with a small economic contribution. On the list of ‘pretty s*** things that could happen’ I’d say it would have been comfortably nestling in their top 10 So 10 different scenarios then. Not easy to plan for really.
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| SW19 CPFC Addiscombe West 07 Feb 21 8.52pm |
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Originally posted by cryrst
So 10 different scenarios then. Not easy to plan for really. Rubbish. Hard to plan for if you have a month, sure. 4 years? Literally the purpose of their existence, along with agreeing a deal. What makes this worse is this would have been known about as it is part of the deal. So it's not like it's come as a surprise to the government. Perhaps they thought the PR of securing a deal would be a better short term gain than the reality of what was actually agreed. Wouldn't be the first time short termism has triumphed in politics. And won't be the last
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