Should people who voted for Brexit be allowed to apply for an Irish Passport?

It would change my opinion of them but I wouldn't be getting my knickers in a twist over it - does it affect you? No.

It’s not easy apparently. My sister has been waiting months to get citizenship before she can get the passport.

This is Ireland's fault for handing out passports too easily.

It should never have been a public vote. A large portion of people voting genuinely didn’t understand the implications of what they were voting for especially given all the propaganda from Nigel Farage and his party.

I haven't missed the point. It doesn't matter. You don't have the right to punish people for having voted the wrong way. Yes it's annoying when people take advantage of opportunities that their votes may have denied others. No that doesn't mean you can punish people for having voted for the thing they're denying others when they're entitled to it themselves.

You just need to get over the fact that half your fellow citizens voted differently from you. It was a wrong decision but that's democracy for you, sometimes the majority vote the wrong way. We are here and we have to live with it. The worst way to do that is by continually fantasizing about ways to punish your fellow citizens to having voted differently from you and dehumanising them a stupid incompetent assholes instead of tackling the issues which caused them to vote differently from you in the first place.

Move on for God's sake.

You're bang on about lack of self awareness.

However the NHS is still reliant on foreign born workers. It's just that those workers now come from further afield than the EU. The vocal Brexiteers can often be found complaining that there are too many immigrants from Africa and Asia in the UK now. The penny still hasn't dropped that they voted for this.🤦‍♀️

Shortly after the Brexit referendum, a woman posted on MN that she'd voted for Brexit but had applied for Irish citizenship, as she had a house elsewhere in the EU and "wanted to continue to be able to live in it". She couldn't understand why some posters thought she was a hypocrite and posted the "throwing up her hands in confusion" emoji.

I still think of her as someone who was spectacularly lacking in self-awareness. I'm staggered that years after the dust has cleared, there are others who willingly admit that they Still Do Not Get It.

By the way, with the benefit of hindsight, what do you lot think of the UKIP adverts for Brexit from 2016? Do you think NHS waiting lists have reduced substantially since then? Or are you willing to admit that discouraging foreign-born NHS workers from settling in the UK might have been something of an own goal?

Oh, are you also obsessed with shit and unable to manage an adult conversation without obsessively using the word shit and calling people names because you cannot bear other people disagreeing with you democractically?

I agree. They're putting on an outstanding display tonight.🙈

Exactly, what are EU rights? They don't exist when your country has democratically decided to leave the EU.

Never heard such nonsense from enraged tantrum throwers 😃

How would anyone know for sure whether someone voted for Brexit? The ballot is secret. I am an ardent Remainer but an even more ardent supporter of the principle of a free and secret vote, with no reward or punishment for voting one way or another.

@Berlinlover You said "I’m Irish and living in Ireland and this makes me absolutely furious."
You do realise that under Irish law, your cousins are considered as Irish as you are? There's no difference. They were Irish citizens when they were born because they have an Irish parent.
And you want to deny them their Irish passport...?

That's me, three quarters Irish but I've no interest in getting an Irish passport. Other family members are doing so though. It doesn't bother me.

And what are “Tory rights”?

I have never read such nonsense from one sole poster on MN!

Do continue amusing us all.

None of your business. They voted Brexit, as did many others. You need to try and get over it. Still being this furious 5 years later must be bloody exhausting. Will it negatively affect your life by them doing this? If not, then just leave them be. 🙄

You talk utter fantasist hogwash.

Nobody is shrieking.

Nobody is having having tantrums.

Posters are just pointing out facts.

Which you don’t like.

It’s really funny.

There are currently 20,000 IE passport applications from GB every month.

Rage? 😂

Dearie me.

Posting truisms on MN is now being “obsessed with shit” and having rage issues.

What cobblers.

I guess some people just don’t like the truth being pointed out to them. 😁

No

No!

I'm not screaming, shrieking or wailing about anything. Just swearing at the sheer idocacy and gaul of fools.