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The fire gets paid by house insurance mate, if you need them you claim, ambulance by medical and the bins by yourself…..it’s better, you only weigh in for what you use. Health care is means tested so if you are below a certain income it’s free. I have to say it’s much better than shovelling £1600 or £1800 a year for services you don’t get or don’t use.
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I understand the past perfectly thank you, where do you want to start ? 1642 or prior to that ? As I said, that shit has been done to death. If this is the way it will go then there’s f**k all worth talking about.
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We are having a decent conversation, the only time it’s gos boss eyed is when people trot out what you have typed there. Nobody here is talking about all that shit, we are having a genuine chat about how it could or may or may not work
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Now that’s a decent post mate, I was thinking much the same earlier thinking about this conversation. Theres a lot both could learn and adopt from each other and I totally agree, the north would be the powerhouse of a United ireland…..it would show how to get things done.
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You can see how it could be a big problem though mate can’t you ? I think stuff many would find attractive is that they still have married couple tax relief, mortgage tax relief and all sorts of other things that got done away with years ago in the uk. Yes you have to have medical insurance but that is means tested so there is free healthcare if you earn under a certain amount, but medical costs are tax deductible as well and so are prescriptions. The great thing is no council tax to speak of, well, mine is €90 a year but you have to pay for fire brigade out of home insuran
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The most painful thing about those two is listening to them !
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More like the bogs on Wandsworth Common ! Lol
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Was just listening to someone on the news talk radio, apparently the economic argument don’t stand up. People would be better off in the republic financially and there is t as much poverty in the republic as the uk which would bare out what I have seen too. The financial question mark is “could the republic afford it?”……but your ordinary person would be better off. Thats all stuff I didn’t know. It really will come down to hearts and minds mate I reckon.
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Despite how shocked I was to see all the empty shops in Belfast and it looking a little sorry for itself in the city centre (which is the same story of lots of British high streets) it has about as much in common with Dublin as I do Diane Abbott !
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It’s Christian conservative from what I can see, “far right” is just the same boring old scare words when someone who threatens this f***ing abortion of a political system comes along.
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I disagree, it’s win/win….she can say it and if the EU block her then she can paint them as the bad guy and it’s wonderful PR for people who want to see nation states back.
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As I know I don’t need to tell you, the less you tax anybody the more incentive there is for them to do well. I have never agreed with penalising success.
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I agree mate, memories are short and most can only think in terms of a two party system. I suppose it’s all numbers?….I don’t know what percentage of the population earn over £150 grand but if it’s minuscule compared to people under that figure then the tax give back was for the many and not the few. Maybe the gaff can afford to knock 5% off those higher earners because their ain’t many of them but can’t afford to knock the same off for those under 150 because they are just too many people and the loss is too massive ?
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One day, you may have a thought of your own…..let us know so we can make time to read it ?
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No, I understand that mate…..I’m just wondering how in reality you implement taking a blokes country away from him. At the time of partition all of Ireland had been part of the United Kingdom for hundreds of years, nobody actually took anything away from anybody in theory…..they did the opposite, they gave a massive chunk back and people then had a choice to live in the republic or the UK. This border poll would be something very different surely ?
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There you have it……how refreshing to hear someone actually talk some sense about “fighting” People seem to talk about it like it’s nothing and maybe their experience is a quick flurry of fists and it all breaks up and everyone walks away with a couple of bruises and maybe a cut eye. For some people, that’s not reality, the reality is if it gets going then some people are going to really stave the other blokes head in…..they may have to if he is bigger than them or more dangerous….they won’t stop until they get pulled off or get bored or just plain run out of steam……and ultimately, fo
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Well, it’s happened before and I think it could happen if it looked like a vote may go ahead and be lost ?……it wouldn’t make much sense doing it when it’s lost already. But all that aside, where is a unionists place when someone has taken his country away from him ? I know that argument works both ways by the way in theory, but difference is, no living republican born and raised in the north ever lived in a republic…..they always lived in Northern Ireland, they willingly give that away but the unionist don’t….they would be taking his country away from him surely ? That’s th
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@Francie I know you are no fan of the EU or Labour so it would mean voting “in” to the EU wouldn’t it. Edited to add: Meant to say, I understand that is probably a price well worth paying mate, it just occurred to me that’s all.
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Thanks mate, pretty relieved to get a view from “the other side” without it turning silly. I just thought it would make an interesting conversation for those of us who it may interest ? As I say, I totally understand the “why” but I just can’t begin to see the “how”. I know we can always say “well, suck it up, you lost” as we did with Brexit but I think this is something different and I can’t see that working can you ? Nothing is on the agenda yet, it’s just words by people that can’t be trusted but in theory ? How do you walk into those towns with pictures of the
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That’s the story of Britain mate, I remember being stood outside a restaurant in Bangor when they first bought in the smoking ban, I was chatting with some old boy while we had a cigarette and I said to him at the time “Don’t be rushing to get too like England” because we was talking about this weird new “smoking ban” and stuff.
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Special Branch was raiding lads right upto the late 90s mate, they took loads of a pal of mines collection of 2nd world war German memorabilia for themselves. They was going through his gaff and saying “Can we have this?….look good in my office” and laughing and he was “Take what you like, just hurry up and f**k off” lol ?
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My wife has an Irish passport and a British passport, my mother in law is the same…..they just don’t view that as anything more than a handy quirk of legislation, they certainly don’t think that effects their Britishness at all and I suspect most people are the same. Could be wrong ?
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They do mate, I don’t have sufficient command of language to properly describe how I view the fundamental differences and I’d like to keep this a genuine discussion without someone getting over sensitive because I don’t know the right words ? My experience is that they couldn’t be more different.
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The best thing to ever come out of the Admiral Duncan was shrapnel! Lol
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Mate, the whole of Britain is filled with foreigners as you know. Im sure we can delve down into the bones of stuff but broadly speaking could you see those staunchly loyalist areas swallowing being taken out of the United Kingdom ? You live there, I know the areas pretty well because I’ve been going there for 25 years and my wife is born and bred there. What do you reckon ?
