Priti Patel threatening Ireland with another food famine. Nothing like ignoring history. Wonder how Laura Trevelyan will be reporting this on the BBC, given her great, great, great, grandfather was Lord Trevelyan who believed it was the destiny of the Irish to die in the famine, and yet he was in charge of famine relief. There are a few songs about him still sung today.
A dishonest way of reporting what she said. But you already knew that. Regardless, it was somewhat tone-deaf of Patel. People who live today but whose psyches are firmly rooted in the past are susceptible to such hysteria and she damn well should have known that. Insensitive.
Re Turkey Transit plant..For those that can be bothered to look at facts and not Facebook false news.. George Osborne was a governor of the EIB when the loan was made to Ford. It was not an EU gift. Just another twisting of the truth to fit in with Brexiteers and EU haters. The EU looks better each day when compared to the Tory party. They are the ones that cant lie straight in bed and who will erode workers rights. Yet we continue to rush headlong in to giving them more control. Wake up.
Are you saying that the EIB exists in a vacuum and is in no way linked to the EU and to EU policy? That's a bold, bold statement. Kudos!
two things 1) I deliberately used the word "perception" 2) She apologised, so she later realised she was on thin ice Either way, she, like most people have no idea about Irish sensitivity to such matters. Its a near weekly event, this sort of thing, for events, many of which are occurred with living memory
Indeed. The inability to look forward, and the tendency to look backward, will present some challenges we all could do without. I wish it could be otherwise.
George Osborne rubber stamped it. Conservative I had thought. But continue with the EU conspiracy if you wish to not see the ironic link is our own government..
2 probably pre empted the usual twitter twats. she was talking about the onward food chain should the eu play silly buggers at their ports given 80% of the roi's imports and exports go through the U.K. God forbid the truth would matter when you have the usual idiots proclaiming the terrorists will rise and the people will starve. What stupidity will you come out with next 749er? Some one might mention a shortage of guinness and you turn it into a discussion about the black and tans? Thankfully our generation will be gone soon and people with twisted minds such as yours will be a thing of the past and let the kids get on with the future
Point of order though. Where UK ministers are all staunch Remainders, there is no Tory (or Labour, etc) Government. There are only UK representatives of the EU. I thought you'd have twigged that, by now. Or have you not heard of Theresa May?
this is straight from briebart. no empathy, no diplomacy, no human element. briebart is for old wankers that would happily send there kids to fight there battles.
How so fin, explain? Someone twisted a perfectly honest one question about trade, into starving the Irish, which was never said or implied in the tone some have tried to make it. From that, your comment is tosh
