Irish Unity

Fancy a pint? Join the crai­c and non-rugby topics here.

Moderator: Moderators

How would you vote in a border poll?

Yes, to Irish Unity
17
57%
No, stay with England, Wales and Scotland
13
43%
 
Total votes: 30

User avatar
kingofthehill
Red Hand Ambassador
Posts: 2733
Joined: Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:43 am

Re: Irish Unity

Post by kingofthehill »

Dave wrote:Did Mike McComish go to Campbell as well?

#productionline
Chris Farrell
Tom O’Toole
Jack Owens



Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The King is dead. Long live the King.
User avatar
Dave
Rí­ na Cúige Uladh
Posts: 24791
Joined: Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:27 pm

Re: Irish Unity

Post by Dave »

kingofthehill wrote:
Dave wrote:Did Mike McComish go to Campbell as well?

#productionline
Chris Farrell
Tom O’Toole
Jack Owens



Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Decent
I have my own tv channel, what have you got?
User avatar
Jackie Brown
Rí­ na Cúige Uladh
Posts: 11723
Joined: Sat Jun 11, 2005 1:15 pm
Location: Carrickfergus

Re: Irish Unity

Post by Jackie Brown »

Off topic

Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk
Gonna Party Like It's 1999
User avatar
Dave
Rí­ na Cúige Uladh
Posts: 24791
Joined: Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:27 pm

Re: Irish Unity

Post by Dave »

h e l l
T H E
B R I T S
I have my own tv channel, what have you got?
User avatar
Rooster
Rí­ na Cúige Uladh
Posts: 40137
Joined: Sat Jun 11, 2005 12:39 am
Location: Chicken coop 17

Re: Irish Unity

Post by Rooster »

Dave wrote:h e l l
T H E
B R I T S
Aye and the Oscars are next
“That made me feel very special and underlined to me that Ulster is more than a team, it is a community and a rugby family"
Rory Best
User avatar
Dave
Rí­ na Cúige Uladh
Posts: 24791
Joined: Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:27 pm

Re: Irish Unity

Post by Dave »

Rooster wrote:
Dave wrote:h e l l
T H E
B R I T S
Aye and the Oscars are next
Baftas are worse
I have my own tv channel, what have you got?
fermain
Rí­ na Cúige Uladh
Posts: 12929
Joined: Sat Jun 11, 2005 12:09 am
Location: Beer garden

Re: Irish Unity

Post by fermain »

Dave wrote:h e l l
T H E
B R I T S
FOB?
:red: :red: :red: :red: :red: :red: :red:
Save lives, become an organ donor!!
User avatar
Cap'n Grumpy
Rí­ na Cúige Uladh
Posts: 15745
Joined: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:21 pm
Location: second barrier up, at the half-way line ... or is the third?

Re: Irish Unity

Post by Cap'n Grumpy »

Rooster wrote:
Dave wrote:h e l l
T H E
B R I T S
Aye and the Oscars are next
Shirley that should be in the "Academy" thread?
I'm not arguing -
I'm just explaining why I'm right
User avatar
Cap'n Grumpy
Rí­ na Cúige Uladh
Posts: 15745
Joined: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:21 pm
Location: second barrier up, at the half-way line ... or is the third?

Re: Irish Unity

Post by Cap'n Grumpy »

kingofthehill wrote:
Dave wrote:Did Mike McComish go to Campbell as well?

#productionline
The chant from his schools cup final.

‘Give me a D,
Give me an E.
That’s what Mike McComish got at GCSE’
Hadn't realised that McComish was one of Campbell's high achievers. :shock:
I'm not arguing -
I'm just explaining why I'm right
User avatar
rocky
Red Hand Ambassador
Posts: 2546
Joined: Fri Jun 17, 2005 9:50 am
Location: Dundonald

Re: Irish Unity

Post by rocky »

Didn't you know that he played out half for them? Gusher must have told us about a thousand times!
Bo***cks to Brexit
User avatar
Cap'n Grumpy
Rí­ na Cúige Uladh
Posts: 15745
Joined: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:21 pm
Location: second barrier up, at the half-way line ... or is the third?

Re: Irish Unity

Post by Cap'n Grumpy »

Cap'n Grumpy wrote:Hadn't realised that McComish was one of Campbell's high achievers. :shock:
rocky wrote:Didn't you know that he played out half for them? Gusher must have told us about a thousand times!
Of course I knew that - everyone does.

I was referring to his GCSE results
I'm not arguing -
I'm just explaining why I'm right
Amiga500
Warrior Chief
Posts: 1691
Joined: Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:42 pm

Re: Irish Unity

Post by Amiga500 »

Snipe Watson wrote:Quite correct. Irish unity as an ideal is one thing, as a reality it's entirely different and isn't going to happen any time soon because people will be better off in the UK.
If its a no deal exit, I very much believe we'd be much worse off within the UK. See below.
Snipe Watson wrote: It's a high stakes game of chicken and from what I've seen the EU is twitchier than the UK. I think they'll blink first as they have more to lose and fudge is what the EU does best.
The UK has far, far more to lose than the EU. In terms of loss of relative markets for EU exporters to UK versus UK exporters to EU, that is obvious.

Furthermore, the UK's current customised WTO tariffs are predicated on their membership of the EU. Once the UK leaves the EU, all that stops - and the UK must revert to the basic (i.e. horrific) WTO tariff rates. So essentially any company exporting from the UK will have to slap between 10 and 50% onto the end price of their goods to account for tariffs.

The UK submitted a proposed table of tariffs to the WTO a couple of months back - which was rejected out of hand by pretty much every large developed country that the UK would trade with. Liam Fox has blustered and blowed about this - but he's really leading the country down a very dark path.

So the UK will have to negotiate a revised tariff scheme with dozens of uncooperative countries, each looking their own pound of flesh and do so under the time pressure of essentially being unable to trade competitively with the result that the national economy is continually sliding. A weaker negotiating position would be hard to find.


In the event of a no deal Brexit, I predict:
- Mass unemployment as exporters have no choice but to leave or shut up shop.
- Run on the pound.
- UK defaults on national gilts (debt).
- Border poll.
- United Ireland.

A no deal is economic Armageddon for the UK.

Pretty much in that order. A deal will change that - to what degree depends on how good the deal is.
User avatar
Rooster
Rí­ na Cúige Uladh
Posts: 40137
Joined: Sat Jun 11, 2005 12:39 am
Location: Chicken coop 17

Re: Irish Unity

Post by Rooster »

That would be my reading of the situation as well Amiga
“That made me feel very special and underlined to me that Ulster is more than a team, it is a community and a rugby family"
Rory Best
Amiga500
Warrior Chief
Posts: 1691
Joined: Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:42 pm

Re: Irish Unity

Post by Amiga500 »

The biggest irony in it all is, if Arlene had 2 brain cells to rub together - she'd have negotiated a deal where this place was best of both worlds (in fact, this was the deal that was on offer about 18 months ago that she rejected out of hand).

It would have secured the economy of this place, the UK and with it, NI's place within the union - as no economic floating vote would have backed a UI - as is clearly visible on this thread, folks pay more attention to whether they can put food on the table as opposed to the colour of the flag on buildings occupied by a bunch of pricks. The union would have been secured for several generations.

Instead, the DUP are forcing things to a situation where there realistically *could* be a border poll within 12 months.

"Unbelievable Jeff!"
User avatar
Dave
Rí­ na Cúige Uladh
Posts: 24791
Joined: Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:27 pm

Re: Irish Unity

Post by Dave »

Arlene will take NI off a cliff as long as it's the same cliff England fall off.
I have my own tv channel, what have you got?
Post Reply