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In fairness he was quoting an Irish government official for food exports at a trade conference seeking to galvanize ,irish food companies into action. There is a minority interest in France for food exotica, and cheddar in France fits into that category. If you recognise the names of the French...

Yes I can agree this ... We are getting to be on the same page. Calling it a referendum was also a mistake.

Suggest you attach a car headlamp bulb .. say 55 w accross the power terminals of the battery, it should be very very bright, you only need to have it there for a second or two. Much longer and the bulb will burn out. This will show if there is defective cells in the battery. .. if one of the...

Which part of Catalonia is Spanish will you refuse to accept. You may wish it were otherwise, I don't care, but it is a fact. It was not so once, it may not be so in some future , but at present it is. Why are you assuming that it was peaceful? I understand how intimidation works, do you? Why...

The legality might not prevent a civil war starting , but is the only method, bar ethnic cleansing or unconditional surrender of ending one. Madrid is playing a dangerous game, yes, but so too is the Catalan parliament. Madrid may have been clumsy!!! in handling this unrest to date, but they...

We say it is part of Spain because it is. The Spanish state says it is, the UN agrees it is, the Catalan accept it is , the people of Catalonia said in 1978 that it was some of their children , may wish it not to be so now. Immigrants who migrated there since 1978 went there knowing it was...

Read Read Your first sentence again... they the Jamaicans requested the right from the then sovereign authority... this is what flecc and I have been saying.... The British people were not directly consulted, its not your way. the British parliament was, which is how your democracy...

What the EU wish for is that the UK remain, not for the money but for the social cohesion. The EU will continue, will not flourish as well as if the UK were a fully committed member, and I don't mean just in financial terms. With the UK outside, there will be a need for boarder protection, etc...

. Or yet another reason for the UK to abandon Brexit? I could say hard cheese, but ... The UK apparently produces 250,000 tones of the stuff per year so the Irish contribution of 77,000 tons to that consumption .. is about 25% of the ploughman's lunches or little slivers served on flights...

Back on topic. Do you like your cheddar cheese? And perhaps a small glass of Baileys cream liqueur? Maybe you are beyond baby milkfoods? There is a major article in the Irish times about these three items and their likely effects post Brexit. Last year Ireland exported 77,660 tons of cheddar...

Against my better judgement , but here goes. In the case of Jamaica, how many MPs did they have in Westminster? That is what representation means. Their destiny as a colony was determined by outsiders. Would I be wrong in suggesting that any desires of the Jamaican people, prior to...

In the event of the Scots then running such a poll and making a declaration of independence on the basis of it. I suspect that the Westminster government would have declared the Edinburgh parliament vacated, installed direct rule, charged the Scottish ministers with sedition, declared martial...

Woosch, the highest court in the land had ruled it illegal, not the Madrid government. There is a distinction to be made , in a democracy between the parliament, the executive .. the government and the courts. The executive has the power and duty to run things including the police, and the...

Zatlan you are only arguing for the sake of it. The distinction between having a representative voice , which Catalans and other Spanish groups have, and being dictated to by a foreign government as would be the case with a colony is lost on you. , So I give up.

. It was singularly inept. Whether it was in contravention of long standing principles , I'm not so sure. It was intended to provoke, and it worked to a large extent.

And people have called me idealistic???? .. I think it was you. Those statelets, and I am surprised you did not include Luxembourg, to which you refer are the hangover from those bastides which existed in the middle ages, and just were not important enough to bother bringing into central...

I want my house to be an independent republic, with full diplomatic relations and a seat on the in general assembly of the UN. I have democratically voted by myself, in a secret ballot, which I have held without informing my family and neighbours. , As a sovereign state I need pay no taxes to...

There are always disputes between people and regions, in the better organized societies , they discuss them between peers in parliament's or in courts and generate agreements if possible, compromises ,if necessary and and live with decisions from a court otherwise. In other societies they...

And the damage is not just the loss of a few Bob in revenue, it's the extra cost of the loss of social engagement, the petty resentments etc..

The parallels with Brexit are obvious. The UK as a sovereign state choose to join a community of sovereign states. Part of that treaty was that any sovereign state could leave .. the article 50 . The UK has by conquest and by other means taken over the island, and considers itself the...