Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

To think most people in the UK don't really care about NI

526 replies

Tooldemont · 07/02/2019 16:23

Just that really, we don't seem to be a together nation and many people I know would just prefer Ireland to become one country on that landmass.

Maybe it's just my circles, but rings true here

OP posts:
Thread gallery
5
TaimaandRanyasBestFriend · 08/02/2019 00:37

'I don't know what NI wants to do with itself but I resent it being the stumbling block which is holding up Brexit negotiations.'

Yeah, fuck 'em. Invaded and divided up like a cake with pieces awarded to the ones they couldn't find land for still paying British taxes and obeying its laws. 'Its', fgs!

PERF I applaud your restraint.

StepLadders007 · 08/02/2019 00:38

Britain thinks they still own Ireland

Ireland isn't not even on the average Brit's radar.

TaimaandRanyasBestFriend · 08/02/2019 00:39

LOL @ telling me I've been lied to with a link from a Tory paper. You couldn't make it up.

StepLadders007 · 08/02/2019 00:40

LOL @ telling me I've been lied to with a link from a Tory paper

There you go

www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/08/its-not-brexit-britain-most-likely-to-suffer-recession-its-germany

PinkPupZ · 08/02/2019 00:41

My Irish family want a united Ireland. I fail to see anything other than this happening in the future. What a mess Brexiters have made...

Bubastes · 08/02/2019 00:42

StepLadders007 did you forget about the other thread? You know, the one where you were keen to share details of the 500 page Brexit White Paper?

TaimaandRanyasBestFriend · 08/02/2019 00:42

Are you for real Step?

Sadly, it's non-uniform day for xenophobes with delusions of grandeur who still think they are anything but a little bitty island with nothing to sell and with no one at their back.

TaimaandRanyasBestFriend · 08/02/2019 00:44

Try harder, Step, your grudges are showing.

StepLadders007 · 08/02/2019 00:45

Sadly, it's non-uniform day for xenophobes with delusions of grandeur who still think they are anything but a little bitty island with nothing to sell and with no one at their back

If we're a little bitty island with nothing to sell then what exactly is Ireland after a No Deal Brexit?

Are you going to build a bridge to France?

You've turned your back on your number one trading partner, it won't be forgotten. Oh and if you think the EU have your back?

You're just being used.

TaimaandRanyasBestFriend · 08/02/2019 00:47

'Great' Britain, the one who had to be bailed out twice in less than 30 years, by the money and blood of other nations, with FA to sell but what belongs to mostly other nations.

Xichuensis · 08/02/2019 00:47

As an Irish person I'd be strongly against a United Ireland. Brexit is the UKs mess, it's for you to clean up. It's not up to us to take on another country because you can't keep your affairs in order. We have nothing to gain by mopping up your mess.

TaimaandRanyasBestFriend · 08/02/2019 00:48

If we're a little bitty island with nothing to sell then what exactly is Ireland after a No Deal Brexit?

A sovereign nation with trade deals in place due to its membership in the EU. You're honestly just on a wind up now.

StepLadders007 · 08/02/2019 00:48

Great' Britain, the one who had to be bailed out twice in less than 30 years

Talking of bailouts

www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/ireland-pays-more-than-400m-in-interest-on-uk-bailout-loan-1.3053791

Bubastes · 08/02/2019 00:49

and the 500 page White Paper?

MumUnderTheMoon · 08/02/2019 00:50

YANBU. We have never featured high on Britain's agenda. It is embarrassing that one group looks to the Britain, a place that seems to not care, for their identity while the other side looks to Ireland, a country that frankly doesn't want to be lumbered with us. The majority of us look to ourselves, we have a grand wee country full of hard working, caring, kind, funny people and we have been horribly let down. By our own politicians and moreover by our own political system. It is outdated; we, for the most part, are more concerned with educating our kids, feeding our families, making sure that we have decent health and social care, than we are about green and orange. We have been sorely let down and we have no means of recourse because of our system of govt. we are stuck with the DUP who ignore our wishes and Sinn Féin who won't take their seats at Westminster and speak up for us. I am sad for my country and I can see know way forward without major change.

StepLadders007 · 08/02/2019 00:51

A sovereign nation

You're going to be handing over sovereignty to Brussels drip by drip. I hear they plan to undermine your big business tax rates.

www.express.co.uk/news/world/1066741/EU-news-Ireland-technology-tax-latest-Google-Amazon-Facebook

Do you think the EU will listen to your objections?

TaimaandRanyasBestFriend · 08/02/2019 00:53

Well, gosh, Step, I wasn't talking about any bailout but the obvious ones, you know, the ones that ended WWI in months and the one that held 4 beaches out of 5 at Normandy, because they don't forget, either. They know you're fish in a barrel. Like father, like son. Yeah, that one.

Donmesswime · 08/02/2019 00:57

The EU has been gunning for Ireland's corporate tax rates as long as I remember. Meh.

JaneJeffer · 08/02/2019 00:59

Hiving off the six counties because of the way they voted in a referendum is as bonkers
There's your answer in the very first reply.

Sakura7 · 08/02/2019 01:01

Step, are all the other 26 countries ceasing to be sovereign nations or is that just Ireland?

We're not 'turning our back' on Britian, that's what Britain has done to it's once close allies. We didn't do anything, we didn't ask for any of this. But we have to protect the interests of our country against this Brexit madness. Anyone with an iota of common sense can see that.

The hatred is oozing out of you.

TaimaandRanyasBestFriend · 08/02/2019 01:10

We're not 'turning our back' on Britian, that's what Britain has done to it's once close allies.

Except when it comes to men and money, then they are all about that.

Monday55 · 08/02/2019 01:41

I read NI as National Insurance.

Donmesswime · 08/02/2019 01:49

@Monday55 Thank you for that brilliant input.

Monday55 · 08/02/2019 02:13

@donmesswime I genuinely thought it was about National insurance as last month I filed my first ever tax return and realised I had 3 years of NI missing from my record. I know it's irrelevant hence why I ddnt mention it in my initial post. #JustSaying