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The cartoon in today's Irish times..which I am incapable of extracting has.. Overweight highly irate John Bull character waving draft agreement. " This will make us a vassal state. All our decisions will be made by European burocrates Away from our currently elected government BLOODLY GOOD...

... No no no , you never thought that. You thought perhaps it was an elaborate scam by the Pope to create a united Ireland. !.

?? Since the UK food import bill is 25 billion per year, it will take a lot of computer games and movies to make up the short fall. The Space industry is an international consortium,..are you perhaps including SKY in that list, which purchases its. technology from Astra,on mainland europe...

.. I cannot follow why that is a reason. It is the short term thinking of British financial houses,which allows them to literally sell the family jewels.. pun intended... . The emasculation is important. Other European countries have invested in education ,with strong eu backing to develop...

That is unfortunately a recipe for long term decline. When a country is manufacturing widgets it is usually investing 10% of the production costs into further R&D ,so they can make better widgets. Now at an early stage an economy like the higher developed UK or even the EU can trade in their...

Probably item 13 is the most significant. Power spent fighting against wind is always power lost. Even small increases in speed against wind results in major power loss. .. what ever your speed , Doubling it means an eight fold increase in wind power loss!. . Worse in winter with anoraks etc...

Are you from the past?. .. but actually and more seriously, none of us know what will happen, but as those financial adds have to say.. Past performance may give an indication of future performance but cannot guarantee ...

It was nonsense, not said in that context ,and misquoted. And was discussed here previously... I believe it was part of the vilification process that UK media were engaged in when they finally realised that Ireland was not one of the Shetlands. The date of the article is significant. Ireland...

1.Fingers that is the fact... The EU fully accepted that the right of the UK to leave. .. contrast that with the expressed view of the US supreme court . No EU officials engaged in the pre Referendum kerfuffle. Even Irish politicans who fully understood the implications, chose to respect the...

Quite so.. what was the point?.

This is going to be a compendium answer ... If and it is very much if, the Commons passes this agreement, it will certainly be a second or maybe third best option for the UK and EU. But it could and still might be a lot, lot worse. As before I hold the opinion that staying in fully would be...

Right fingers, .. let's to it.. 1.Merkel was wishing the UK would back out of the debacle they have got THEMSELVES into. It is a wish shared by some 380 million in Europe. .excluding some 17 millions in one of its countries. 2. The EU is in need of reform, not necessary modernisation. Any...

Tommie ,thank you for publishing that... It is an appalling feed, and no different from the fascist nonsense being peddled in red neck states in the USA. I watched a three part documentary on Netflix about the "Jewish Final solution" and how it was actively supported in eastern European...

Well as Ronald Reagan once said, I won't hold their youth and inexperience against them.

Why would you assume that the contestants would all be BREXITeers?, Would not Mr Clarke ,be a possibility?.

I would be interested from where you got that unattributed quote. A British newspaper perhaps?. The deal on offer is the second best available to the UK, the best obviously is to call the whole shambles off. Irish ministers are NOT gloating, the situation is much to fraught for that. I can...

Whac a Mole. The current situation in UK politics is reminiscent of the 1980s Arcade and childrens game, where pesky moles would pop up at random, from round holes in a table and needed to be belted back back down with a mallet. The only variants being that the holes are now steadily ...

I don't want to get into militarism sub thread, but i have always found the overt military presence at the British held Rugby internationals a little OTT. It smacks of the US parading of their flags at their ordinary football matches and the expected adulation I could imagine the ire that my...

A rare slip, Norway is not in the EU.

My preference is for a global police force .. perhaps called something like .. UN FIL .. ,for which the Irish Army has since 1960 taken a prominent role. Now in the week that is in it, perhaps a little respect for facts might not come amiss. .. in the First WW , All Ireland being part of the...