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Aug 22nd 2019, 3:46 am
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Re: Boris
It's the same mindset behind ISIS and the Taliban and just about every terrorist group in the world who think it's justifiable to resort to violence and destruction of lives and property. That's what I find fascinating about the IRA, as well as their apologists. After all, what is unreasonable about putting up a few cameras on a border between two countries? Can you tell me what is unreasonable about having a few security cameras or out of sight customs checks?
I'm aware of the history of Ireland and Northern Ireland and the troubles. It certainly is a passionate topic. But tiptoeing around a bunch of white trash, uneducated terrorists dwelling in a selfish, self-absorbed stone-age mentality of vengeance and violence rather than properly civilised human beings in a modern Western Europe is not something that particularly inspires me. Are we to live our lives under the blackmail of terrorist threat from the IRA? That, to me, is the idiot-savant mentality and autistic fear.
I'm aware of the history of Ireland and Northern Ireland and the troubles. It certainly is a passionate topic. But tiptoeing around a bunch of white trash, uneducated terrorists dwelling in a selfish, self-absorbed stone-age mentality of vengeance and violence rather than properly civilised human beings in a modern Western Europe is not something that particularly inspires me. Are we to live our lives under the blackmail of terrorist threat from the IRA? That, to me, is the idiot-savant mentality and autistic fear.
Aug 22nd 2019, 6:26 am
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Re: Boris
I really shouldn't engage when your level understanding is that objection to reinstalling any kind of border makes us either white trash terrorists or at best white trash terrorist enablers/sympathisers. The only people cheering (though on the surface against their stated ideology)will be terrorists/gangsters as it will restart all the border smuggling and crime that used to go on before.
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Aug 22nd 2019, 7:49 am
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Aug 22nd 2019, 8:10 am
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Re: Boris
Top 5 things that would be smuggled between NI and Ireland.
1. Albanian cleaners.
2. 300W hoovers.
3. Straight / bent bananas
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Literally every product that is going to be subject to excise and tariff duty crossing into/out of Europe.
Aug 25th 2019, 4:13 am
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Re: Boris
Top 5 things that would be smuggled between NI and Ireland.
1. Albanian cleaners.
2. 300W hoovers.
3. Straight / bent bananas
4. Wheelbarrow loads or bales of the currency formerly known as 'Sterling'
5. The Irish rugby team, to save them from stoning.
1. Albanian cleaners.
2. 300W hoovers.
3. Straight / bent bananas
4. Wheelbarrow loads or bales of the currency formerly known as 'Sterling'
5. The Irish rugby team, to save them from stoning.
Aug 25th 2019, 7:58 am
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Re: Boris
It just fits with your other rhetoric in that sense, just look at the 'Engurrlands' comments. He couldn't have been described as a Brit, it had to be English.....Anyway, he wasn't, so it's Scotland's fault. 
Anyway.
Is the GFA replaceable? Is it still relevant to every point? Could it be upgraded and made new to serve better in this position moving forwards? Could it be adjusted to fit? I'm sure there are enough people in Ireland and Northern Ireland who want to remain peaceful that solutions can be found? Being honest, unlike lots of people I don't know enough about it, nor will I pretend to like many folks on the internet....
Anyway.
Is the GFA replaceable? Is it still relevant to every point? Could it be upgraded and made new to serve better in this position moving forwards? Could it be adjusted to fit? I'm sure there are enough people in Ireland and Northern Ireland who want to remain peaceful that solutions can be found? Being honest, unlike lots of people I don't know enough about it, nor will I pretend to like many folks on the internet....
Aug 26th 2019, 5:12 am
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Re: Boris
You have forgotten, it seems, that it was before the GFA that the UK was living in blackmail of the IRA terrorist threat with all of the cost and misery of the security apparatus that imposed. The GFA removed the basis for blackmail, just like, for example, the legalisation of homosexuality did for that. As ever, you claim to yearn for a past that never existed.
Aug 26th 2019, 6:35 am
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Re: Boris
they played like they were already stoned.
Aug 26th 2019, 6:39 am
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The British endured terror attacks for decades prior to the GFA without any agreement on the horizon. The only change I was previously aware of which resulted in an agreement coming in to force occurred on the other side of the Atlantic. The Americans deciding that funding terrorism was a bad idea changed the dynamic. Agreements are are little more than a pocket full of promises.
Aug 26th 2019, 12:10 pm
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Re: Boris
Can I just take a moment to reassure everyone that leaving the EU with no deal will be absolutely fine. The government has done a lot of preparation in the last two weeks, and I can assure you everything will be fine.
But it will all be the fault of the EU that there will be no deal and erm... everything will be fine. That's all on them, it being absolutely fine and everything.
I can't state that enough. Everything will be fine if there is no deal, but it will be entirely the fault of the EU for inflicting no deal on the UK and everything being fine.
But it will all be the fault of the EU that there will be no deal and erm... everything will be fine. That's all on them, it being absolutely fine and everything.
I can't state that enough. Everything will be fine if there is no deal, but it will be entirely the fault of the EU for inflicting no deal on the UK and everything being fine.
Aug 26th 2019, 12:18 pm
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Re: Boris
The British endured terror attacks for decades prior to the GFA without any agreement on the horizon. The only change I was previously aware of which resulted in an agreement coming in to force occurred on the other side of the Atlantic. The Americans deciding that funding terrorism was a bad idea changed the dynamic. Agreements are are little more than a pocket full of promises.
A few kneecapped taxi drivers in Northern Ireland and handfuls of troops was acceptable losses, the UK could grind on with that forever. The UK could simply not accept the huge economic cost of attacks of the scale of this bomb to something as important as the City of London financial centre.
Back channels to the IRA opened soon after this, and the rest is history.
Aug 27th 2019, 5:13 am
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Re: Boris
I've always had the impression that the Thatcher government did well out of the troubles. Brighton was probably a bit too close for comfort but even the aftermath from that went in their favour.
