This is a fascinating tweet from the European Parliament’s Chief Brexit Negotiator: The @Europarl_EN will never accept the UK can have all the advantage of free trade, and not aligning with our ecological, health & social standards. We are not stupid! We will not kill our own companies, economy, single market. We will never accept […]
Boris Johnson has laid down the gauntlet to EU negotiators after promising there would be no border checkpoints on the Northern Ireland side of the Irish border.
I know we’re all donning the green jersey, ready to fight a second war, if necessary, against the hated Brits, and lining up to denounce the fluffy-haired charlatan they have chosen as their Prime Minister, but, come on, was anyone really offended by the phrase “dead in a ditch”? Apparently we were, according to the […]
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We wake to breaking news this Wednesday that Boris Johnson will ask the Queen to prorogue Parliament. This is, and let’s be clear about it, an attack on parliamentary democracy in Britain. Since the Glorious Revolution in the 17th century sovereignty in Britain has rested with the Crown in Parliament. The government needs to gain […]
Fintan O’Toole is not shy about declaring what he is. His working titles are “historian, biographer, literary critic and political commentator”. To these he adds “acclaimed” columnist, adding that he writes “on Brexit for the Irish Times”, which he calls “a form of self-harm”, adding that it is also “a form of fatal attraction”. His […]
The Irish government is refusing to discuss arrangements for a No-Deal Brexit with the UK. Will this cause chaos?
According to the generally well-informed Pat Leahy over at the Irish Times, Dublin is refusing even to engage with the British authorities on the arrangements that might be necessary in the event of a no-deal Brexit: The new British government wants to talk to Dublin about managing a no-deal exit, but Irish Ministers and officials […]
The Bundesbank says Germany is headed to recession. Not good news, especially with the possibility of a hard Brexit on the horizon: The German economy could slip into a technical recession in the third quarter after failing to recover over the summer, the Bundesbank said on Monday. In a monthly report, the Bundesbank said falling […]
The Irish government must drop the backstop in order to avoid a hard border according to Anthony Coughlan, a former senior Social Policy lecturer in Trinity College Dublin. Full interview here: https://youtu.be/8fNZtoF9IYA
Prof. Ray Kinsella says that had the Irish government handled Brexit differently we would not be looking at the costs that are being projected and imposed on us. The Irish chose to work with the EU to impale the UK on the backstop when they had other alternatives – such as telling the EU that under the Good Friday agreement Ireland could have mediated a settlement directly with the UK to minimise any trade and business frictions, the leading economist told Gript.
The fear of Brexit is making us forget that our previous economic crisis was caused by our lack of control over interest rates and more. John McGuirk talks to Tim Jackson about Brexit. #gript #Brexit