A little bit of politics folks`

[Dave]

https://glintpay.com/wikipedia/uk-owe-money/

[Dave]

A practical idea would be to join the single market.

[Lurgan Lad]

So much for Gordon Brown's fiscal rules, completely useless. The rule to me should be that in any year in which the economy is projected to grow to a larger size than it has ever been, the government has to have a budget surplus/be paying off its debt unless it is below x amount of GDP, say 50%. That way if the economy is coming out of a recession you can justify the government spending more than it brings in until it has fully recovered, but none of this overspending in the run up to an election for political reasons.

[Big-al]

A practical idea would be to join the single market.

I’d say that will eventually happen, but could take 5-10 years. This European forum that the French have started up (EU + UK & + few others) is the beginning of it.

[Dublin4]

The UK should move gradually over a generation to the Norway option of being in the Single Market while remaining outside the EU proper. I don't think you really wanted the especially hard form of Brexit that you ended up with. Cutting yourselves off from your main market for your principles is courageous but surely you would prefer prosperity to the slow puncture of Brexit?

[Dave]

Who are you referring to as 'you'? There was no hard/soft brexit plan to vote on. It was brexit whatever the cost. It is on the heads of those who voted yes.

[Dublin4]

It should be on the heads of the Brexit voters and some day it will be. That day may come sooner than we thought as the consequences become clearer.

[Cap'n Grumpy]

It should be on the heads of the Brexit voters and some day it will be. That day may come sooner than we thought as the consequences become clearer.

Is that a threat?

Reads like a threat.

And if you do that out loud, it sounds like a threat.

Looks like a threat.

Smells - yes, smells, like a threat.

Ya wouldn't be threatening us by any chance, would ya?

[Dublin4]

It would be a threat, only it's already happened. Keep enjoying the sunny uplands of Brexit.

[Cap'n Grumpy]

It would be a threat, only it's already happened. Keep enjoying the sunny uplands of Brexit.

We will never forsake the sunny uplands of Brexit for the cloudy skies of whatchamacallit!

[Bobbievee]

Apparently not a post on this thread for nearly 6 months. Not surprising I suppose.
SO
With all the current brouhaha on how the world will end of NI does not have an Executive with the DUP in it, has everyone forgotten that when we had an Executive it was an amazingly incompetent, fractured, self centred bunch of cretins.
Do we really really need them back? Why?

[big mervyn]

Apparently not a post on this thread for nearly 6 months. Not surprising I suppose.
SO
With all the current brouhaha on how the world will end of NI does not have an Executive with the DUP in it, has everyone forgotten that when we had an Executive it was an amazingly incompetent, fractured, self centred bunch of cretins.
Do we really really need them back? Why?

It would have a better chance of working if the veto that SF/DUP have consistently abused was removed.

It was designed to protect the minority. It was never used for this purpose and since there is no longer a unionist or nationalist majority, and little prospect of one in the forseeable, it should be removed.

Hard to get excited about the council elections.

My main gripes are.

1. Those stupid new pedestrian crossings with no beep or flashing green man.
2. The shinners blocking the fox hunting legislation.
3. Everything the DUP thinks and/or does.
4. Alliance get off the fecking fence.

I realise that these are not necessarily local issues but it's the only chance you get to abuse these muppets.

[solidarity]

Apparently not a post on this thread for nearly 6 months.

We've been out in protest at the Protocol, Shinners, DUP, Sunak, Dublin, Westminster, Biden, Russia, Taliban and FIRFU.
We'll only start posting again when we get what we want...
...not quite sure what we want but we're not coming back until we get it.

[HwoodMike2umate]

For the record, and Lest We Forget, our Council elections are on 18th May 2023, which coincidently if officially DAY 5962.

[HwoodMike2umate]

https://irelandvotes.com/

Useful link for political anoraks.