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England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales - BETTER TOGETHER
England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales - BETTER TOGETHER
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Ireland is wealthier now than it was when part of the union
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THE GREATEST UNION IN HISTORY
CWU? |
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Lol,caps locks and all.
The EU United Island of Ireland,Scotland poised,tick tock,it's all so beautiful. Thank you Brexiteers  |
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dreadful clickbait - thought this would be about the RMT
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I can feel the pain
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Jim Larkin's ITGWU surely the greatest union of all time?
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Propped up by debt Joey. We call in ours and the republic will have to sell off the family jewels to survive.
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UK debt is higher
Ireland public debt is 69.5% of GDP UK debt is 87.0% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_debt external debt is bigger too UK 127,000 dollars per capita Ireland 49,000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt |
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southern ireland used to be poorer than northern ireland, wales, scotland and england, now it is richer than all of them
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Bravo !!
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i didn't know you could parlare italiano case
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ffs, Northern Ireland didn't exist until 1921. lol. What are you on?
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lol great spot.
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none of ireland was in the union until 1801
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year you were born
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nope, i was born after the establishment of the irish free state
i have never been a british citizen though technically we were british subjects i think (not sure about that part) |
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Ireland is richer? Based on which statistic? The artificially inflated GDP figure that only looks high as they are a tax haven full of huge international corporations paying very little tax as the nominal rate is an extremely low 12.5% but they are also offered lots of loopholes to lower it below that as well. I.e. it's not a REAL GDP by any normal measure in any normal country, it's a statistic based on money in effect laundered through Ireland with a minimum of tax paid on it that then disappears into corporations wallets. Well that nice little earner may be about to come to an end, as Biden is pushing for a worldwide minimum corporation tax rate of 21% and the EU is strong arming Ireland from the other side.
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"Biden is pushing for a worldwide minimum corporation tax rate of 21%"
lol good luck with that |
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GNI / GDP figures factpr if repatriation of profits
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GNI_(nominal)_per_capita |
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factor in
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There is a clear unionist majority in Ulster and will be so for at least another 100 years
Quite right , cheers |
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who are we comparing ireland to anyway?
northern ireland? talk about somewhere kept afloat by subsidies |
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lfc the protestant majority is already gone
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NI is about 50/50 overall and the young are majority catholic
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Dublin was one of the greatest cities in Europe in the 18th century
after the act union it became one of the biggest slums the potato crop failed in the 18th century, there was no famine it failed under british rule, there was can you detect a pattern here? |
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If there is a border poll and the correct question is asked then the result is clear
Carry on as is . |
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They’re not daft in Ulster
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"If there is a border poll and the correct question is asked then the result is clear "
because london gives them 5 billion a year and they know Dublin couldn't afford that |
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there aren't many catholics opposed to a united ireland in principle
teh nuts and bolts of how it would work is the problem |
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Here is the question to be asked :
Do you want to remain part of the U.K. and retain your rights as British citizens Or do you want to leave and lose those rights Including losing the right to live and work in the U.K. Game over |
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it's not about rights it's about money, the NHS and civil service jobs
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huge public sector in NI
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They’re not going to want to rely on the south of Ireland to to find somewhere to work or schools or health care or NHS etc now are they ?
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the south can't afford to subsidise the north's public sector to the tune of 5bn a year, no
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It’s not just the public sector in NI .Thousands go to university in England , go into all sectors of work , engineering , clerical , financial whatever find work in England , live in the U.K. and that goes on every year
Put it on the ballot that it stops if they leave the U.K. |
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why would it stop? people from the south can do that too
and they would probbaly retain their british citizneship should they so wish |
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i could go to live and work in the UK if iI wanted, even after brexit
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Don’t forget to hand in your British passport also
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after ireland left the uk in 1921 people could keep their uk citizenship and passoports
james joyce for exmple never had an irish passport, used a british one |