Brexit

[Old Greg]

Not quite the question I asked though. Given you pop over to Newry, you must be quite close to the border. So would you accept the pressures on services for someone from, for example Luton, will be acutely different to anything you've experienced? Calling people who have and continue to experience these things racist is dead easy when you know nothing like it and never will.

Actually I'm an hour from the border and have only been in Ireland for a year. I've lived for long periods in London, Manchester and Nottingham.

I didn't call any people "who have and continue to experience these things [pressures on services] racist". I was talking about people disliking immigrants.

[VectraMan]

Thanks for that. I actually googled "John Oliver Brexit" the other day wondering if he'd done something about it yet. I had no idea which side he'd take, but pleased to see he's for reason. Clearly a lot more comic value in the claims, or non-claims from Brexiters.

John Oliver is the one thing I miss since cancelling my Sky subscription. Always brilliant.

[original PM]

Not destruction, re-assembly.

Ha you mean re-education surely!

[scooterscot]

Not sure it would rub off on the brexitiers.

[jamesbrown]

The Dirty Spekulant's real-time riches thread: Brexit edition

<postponed until 24th>

Report your vast winnings and cataclysmic losses, right here, for everyone's amusement. Stocks and shares, currencies, gold, and other real-time doings. Housing wealth excluded.

[AtW]

1.46 USD for GBP, bring on Brexit phears!!!

[The_Equalizer]

Actually I'm an hour from the border and have only been in Ireland for a year. I've lived for long periods in London, Manchester and Nottingham.

I didn't call any people "who have and continue to experience these things [pressures on services] racist". I was talking about people disliking immigrants.

So you can perfectly understand the change and pace in all those places. Ireland is like a desert population-wise many parts of Great Britain. I know of a contractor who is working in London, but due to be married and is therefore heading back to Northern Ireland to settle. He bangs on about Remain and how Brexiters are racists, yet has the luxury of heading home to a quality of life which he could never hope to have in London.

The bottom line is it is human nature to live in communities of similar cultures. It's not an exaggeration to say parts of England (at least) have seen wholesale change. There are aspect of other cultures (such as FGM) I would say are total unacceptable, yet any mention of this has you branded as a racist.

[SueEllen]

So you can perfectly understand the change and pace in all those places. Ireland is like a desert population-wise many parts of Great Britain. I know of a contractor who is working in London, but due to be married and is therefore heading back to Northern Ireland to settle. He bangs on about Remain and how Brexiters are racists, yet has the luxury of heading home to a quality of life which he could never hope to have in London.

The bottom line is it is human nature to live in communities of similar cultures. It's not an exaggeration to say parts of England (at least) have seen wholesale change. There are aspect of other cultures (such as FGM) I would say are total unacceptable, yet any mention of this has you branded as a racist.

Where did OG say that?

[The_Equalizer]

The irony of the next couple of years is going to be as spectacular as it is depressing. I can't see any scenario where a recession doesn't hit in the next 1-3 years, and it's difficult to see how the EU will withstand it. There are also several upcoming elections within the EU that have the capacity to shock. We won't escape this turmoil, in or out, but it's going to underline the structural flaws in the EU, if that was needed.

Another silver lining for a Remain vote, although actually it's really not. Still, could lead to change that Remainers claim (Owen Jones and Corbyn spring to mind) can be negotiated. Nothing like an ideology to make a mess of things.

[BrilloPad]

Where did OG say that?

With some much drivel it is hard to tell.