Time of great upheaval are times of opportunity for those unafraid to take advantage of the misery of others.
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Time of great upheaval are times of opportunity for those unafraid to take advantage of the misery of others.
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At this stage - due to Theresa May being a thick cùnt and having backed herself into a binary choice between subjugating us to the EU in perpetuity and effectively breaking up the Union - No Deal seems like much the best option.
Honestly, that woman has been an utter disaster.
Nor I, truly cannot be fúcked.
A border in Ireland will be sad if it were to happen, I am old enough to remember it.
Ultimately it will be your innocent and unfortunate Customs officials who will be expected to police it (and security forces to protect them) who will suffer as well as the ordinary chap just going about his every day business with a lorry full of illegal diesel.
It's certainly possible that there might be no business to be done any more in my field, yes.
If that were the case I would simply fúck off and live a comfortable, if frugal, retirement. Indeed, such an outcome might be the spur I need to take my testes in both hands and have the courage to get the fúck off the treadmill.
The fact is that there are people in NI just itching to start killing people again and are desperate for an excuse to do so. The logic appears to be that we ought to be prepared to sacrifice our national sovereignty and unity in order to appease these fùcking worthless animals.
No. Me neither. :shrug:
Hang on, I thought we were jumping up and down with excitement about being in control of our own borders.... apart from that one?
Wont all the nasty foreigners just land in Dublin and then enter the UK in the North before slowly making their way to your neighbourhood, and mine?
Of course it is silly but he would be a symbol, or the most obvious recognisable symbol of the British Government which had forced the re-enforcement of the border on the island of Ireland.
Entirely innocent of course but then a lot of your casualties in the Troubles were.
Loads of nutters still mooching around, on both sides. Not sure they will be too arsed about fighting each other so your boys will be next in line. Nothing may ever happen, hopefully not, but the threat will be back for the first time in over 20 years or whatever.
Sad scenes.
I seriously doubt there is the political will or capability to support any sort of large-scale return to terrorism. There are no serious numbers interested in starting the Troubles up again. An entire generation has grown up in peace - you might get a couple of nutter dinosaurs blowing up fertiliser bombs or shooting at a customs official, but the chances of it going back to anything like the bad times is pretty much zero.
First, you prevent them coming by making it not worth their while - no rights to employment, housing, welfare or health provision, etc, etc (as we'll be free to do when not in the EU). They'll soon fùck off back to the Republic - and if they don't, you physically deport them.
Also, you can impose stringent identity checks on such migrants to tell you who is or isn't in your country and severely limit their rights. They can also be prevented from travelling from NI to the mainland (as we used to with certain people during the Troubles).
This does raise the broader point of an effective border between the Republic and the rest of the UK, a border which has never really existed in any modern sense. This means I am going to have to show my passport tothat **** at Stansted. He is going to love this....
What you are really doing is leaving Northern Ireland open and keeping a mainland border. If a hard border on the island is unacceptable then this really is the only option.
I still dont see why this has to mean no deal. It sounds like *******s to me.
As with any 'intractable' diplomatic problem, it simply screams out for a fudge in which one thing is said and quite another done. So either an 'open' border which is actually manned or a 'hard' border that is not enforced. Unfortunately, there does seem to be too little flexibility or subtlety being shown by either side to achieve such a thing.
It's the Irish, I'm afraid. They can't be trusted to behave decently. Here we have the self-infantilisation of a naturally subject people swearing blind that unless they get what they want, they'll have no choice but to start blowing the legs off policemen again and it'll be none of their responsibility. It's fùcking pathetic.
As the Great Lady put it: "You can't trust the Irish. They are all liars."