54 minutes ago, Laughing Gravy said:

So you support those for a unified Ireland. I hope you will the same for those in Issan or you are just being selective.

Ideally, a unified Ireland sounds great. Pragmatically, not so much. If I was a ROI politician, taking over sovereignty over the north wouldn’t be worth it. I’d happily leave that for the British to deal with! Its their mess anyway. In 100 years after the demographics have changed, ask me again. 
 

As for Isaan, who knows! I’ve always been a proponent of having a more devolved government in Thailand based on the major regions (North, North East, Central, and Southern Thailand) given the complexities of the country. If they wanted to hive off and join Laos, then good on them I guess. I can’t think of many reasons they’d want to do that, not that the central Thai focused government cares for them much unless it is around election time. So a Newin NE private fiefdom? Who knows, could be on the cards! 

Just now, samran said:

Ideally, a unified Ireland sounds great. Pragmatically, not so much. If I was a ROI politician, taking over sovereignty over the north wouldn’t be worth it. I’d happily leave that for the British to deal with! Its their mess anyway. In 100 years after the demographics have changed, ask me again. 
 

As for Isaan, who knows! I’ve always been a proponent of having a more devolved government in Thailand based on the major regions (North, North East, Central, and Southern Thailand) given the complexities of the country. If they wanted to hive off and join Laos, then good on them I guess. I can’t think of many reasons they’d want to do that, not that the central Thai focused government cares for them much unless it is around election time. So a Newin NE private fiefdom? Who knows, could be on the cards! 

So why your hatred for the UK.

 

1 minute ago, Laughing Gravy said:

So why your hatred for the UK.

 

The only people who seem to think I have a hatred for the UK are thin skinned brexiters who wouldn’t know their WTOs from their FTAs and who interpret any injection of mildly intelligent comment or critique as an assault on their British, sorry, Englishness. 

5 hours ago, Laughing Gravy said:

"SF’s strategy shares traits with that of Europe’s far-right parties"

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/sinn-féin-s-rhetoric-is-dangerous-and-its-exclusion-from-power-is-justified-1.4164037?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fopinion%2Fsinn-f%C3%A9in-s-rhetoric-is-dangerous-and-its-exclusion-from-power-is-justified-1.4164037

 

 

views on SF by opponents hiding behind paywalls ain't no good guidance of what is where in the political spectrum

 

checked up the semantics of far right and looked, couldna spot SF

2 minutes ago, samran said:

The only people who seem to think I have a hatred for the UK are thin skinned brexiters who wouldn’t know their WTOs from their FTAs and who interpret any injection of mildly intelligent comment or critique as an assault on their British, sorry, Englishness. 

Right so you hate the UK. Your posts are often anti-British. You also often insult posters who have a different opinion than yours.  It must be your superiority complex then.

 

So your not British, half Thai but obsessed with Brexit and the English. Got it.

3 minutes ago, melvinmelvin said:

views on SF by opponents hiding behind paywalls ain't no good guidance of what is where in the political spectrum

 

checked up the semantics of far right and looked, couldna spot SF

A reference was asked for so I gave it. I posted an article yesterday and pasted all the article because it had a paywall and it got removed. apparently against the rules. Only the article and a couple of sentences allowed.

 

Put your money in your pocket and pay up. Or use the internet and do your own research. It takes less than a minute.

6 minutes ago, melvinmelvin said:

checked up the semantics of far right and looked, couldna spot SF

The clue is in the first two letters.

SF’s strategy shares traits with that of Europe’s far-right parties

6 minutes ago, Laughing Gravy said:

Right so you hate the UK. Your posts are often anti-British. You also often insult posters who have a different opinion than yours.  It must be your superiority complex then.

 

So your not British, half Thai but obsessed with Brexit and the English. Got it.

Is this your argument LG, to accuse those you disagree with of hating the UK?

 

And of course your customary resort to discussing their nationality, real or imagined.

 

3 minutes ago, samran said:

The only people who seem to think I have a hatred for the UK are thin skinned brexiters who wouldn’t know their WTOs from their FTAs and who interpret any injection of mildly intelligent comment or critique as an assault on their British, sorry, Englishness. 

From someone who struggles differentiating between a Vexillogist & Keith Harris ????

8 minutes ago, Laughing Gravy said:

The clue is in the first two letters.

SF’s strategy shares traits with that of Europe’s far-right parties

Why not summarise the conclusions as to why the opinion writer identifies SF as sharing Far Right traits. 

5 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Is this your argument LG, to accuse those you disagree with of hating the UK?

 

And of course your customary resort to discussing their nationality, real or imagined.

 

I'll show mine if you'll show yours now that you happen to mention it...?

Edited February 10, 20206 yr by evadgib

1 minute ago, evadgib said:

and an ancestral ???????? courtesy of the old bailey.

And again, childish discussion of a member’s real or imagined nationality.

 

 

7 hours ago, Laughing Gravy said:

I am awaiting all those anti brexit posters supporting Sinn Fein. Lets remember who these are. This party supported terrorist attacks on innocent civilians, including women and children.

 

They are a nationalist party on the far right. If you want to compare them with a party in the UK I would put them on the spectrum of Britain First, only probably further, as they have close links with murderers.

As you are awaiting …. well I am here and welcome their winning , shows a true democratic winning , be sure in a few years the Irish Island can be unified , finish the game from divide a people and rule by  third party country ...

6 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

And the DUP is a front for loyalist terrorists. What is your point? 

 

That the young don't remember the Troubles is a good thing because it means that those dark days are behind us. The IRA was created by those who experienced first hand the treatment of Ireland and the Irish by the British.

 

The current youth are the future of Ireland - better they view the world with aspirations of unbound greatness rather than being burdened by the sins of their and our fathers. 

 

Ah, our resident anti British Scottish Republican sympathizing with the murdering terrorists and crime gang, the Provisional IRA. 

 

Guess you have no issue with the youth of Germany supporting far left national socialists or far right fascists then? Of course you do; because it would only be extremists that share your political views that are o k. 

 

The IRA that fought for Irish independence; and fought a civil war with the Irish Free State, were a very different organization to the drug dealing PLO loving Provosional IRA financed by crime, extortion and by foreign enemies of the UK. 

 

Do you realize the irony in your last sentence. You don't want the Irish youth to be burdened by the sins of their fathers; whilst you want the UK to be burned by theirs. 

 

 

2 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

And again, childish discussion of a member’s real or imagined nationality.

 

 

Not when it's been openly admitted some time ago with no offence intended or taken at the time.

Edited February 10, 20206 yr by evadgib

1 minute ago, david555 said:

As you are awaiting …. well I am here and welcome their winning , shows a true democratic winning , be sure in a few years the Irish Island can be unified , finish the game from divide a people and rule by  third party country ...

Yep the people have spoken, their democratic will must be observed, and there will be no second elections.

1 minute ago, evadgib said:

I'll show mine if you'll show yours....?

I find myself once again reminding you, TVF is not a dating site.

 

I’m sure there are other forums where you can find the kind of ‘sharing’ you are seeking, I’m pleased to inform you TVF is not one of them.

 

I hope you are not too disappointed.

2 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

The IRA that fought for Irish independence; and fought a civil war with the Irish Free State, were a very different organization to the drug dealing PLO loving Provosional IRA financed by crime, extortion and by foreign enemies of the UK. 

So the US is an enemy of the UK now?

5 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I find myself once again reminding you, TVF is not a dating site.

 

I’m sure there are other forums where you can find the kind of ‘sharing’ you are seeking, I’m pleased to inform you TVF is not one of them.

 

I hope you are not too disappointed.

I'll take that as a 'No' but thanks all the same for bringing it up. I shudder to think what might have happened had it been me...

Edited February 10, 20206 yr by evadgib

1 minute ago, evadgib said:

Not when it's been openly admitted some time ago with no offence intended or taken at the time.

Regardless, it doesn’t make a member’s nationality a topic for discussion.

 

But I think you know that.

1 minute ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Stupid comment of the year award goes to ....................................... yep, and it's only February! That's an achievement of kind.

 

Wonder if Corsica will get it's independence from the occupying French?

Algeria did.

1 minute ago, DannyCarlton said:

Yep the people have spoken, their democratic will must be observed, and there will be no second elections.

That sound a very familiar  line..., as the Brexiteers repeated it  and repeated it endlessly …. 

Karma  !

2 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Stupid comment of the year award goes to ....................................... yep, and it's only February! That's an achievement of kind.

 

Wonder if Corsica will get it's independence from the occupying French?

I accept in honor your award …. hope it goes further on for the Irish ...

26 minutes ago, Laughing Gravy said:

Right so you hate the UK. Your posts are often anti-British. You also often insult posters who have a different opinion than yours.  It must be your superiority complex then.

 

So your not British, half Thai but obsessed with Brexit and the English. Got it.

But this is the thing with the chest thumpers and the master racers isn’t it? If you don’t agree with me you must hate me and my country.

No reference to the argument at hand, go straight for the man, not the ball.
 

My ancestry matters not a jot (except to you), though I have Irish about five generations back as well as English around the same time and Chinese and maybe a bit of Burmese. My nan was a Protestant and by Pop was catholic. 
 

So how do you want to pigeon hole me cause that is all you blokes seem to be capable of! 
 

Edited February 10, 20206 yr by samran

3 minutes ago, david555 said:

As you are awaiting …. well I am here and welcome their winning , shows a true democratic winning , be sure in a few years the Irish Island can be unified , finish the game from divide a people and rule by  third party country ...

Democracy you Dutch wouldn't know it if it bites you on the bottom. Laugh and clap about that. Again I not against Sinn Fein winning but your ignorance of who they were and are is astounding as your constant anti UK rhetoric.

 

https://euroculturer.eu/2016/12/05/the-ignored-revolution-the-dutch-referendum-crisis/

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-referendum-ignore-lisbon-treaty-nice-treaty-ireland-greece-france-netherlands-a7105261.html

 

There is more chance of Germany invading Holland again then Ireland unified. Obviously you are way out of touch with loyalists in Northern Ireland..

 

 

 

31 minutes ago, samran said:

The only people who seem to think I have a hatred for the UK are thin skinned brexiters who wouldn’t know their WTOs from their FTAs and who interpret any injection of mildly intelligent comment or critique as an assault on their British, sorry, Englishness. 

 

Just thought you were a bitter Aussie from Irish ancestry with an enormous chip on your shoulder. 

 

 

2 minutes ago, david555 said:

I accept in honor your award …. hope it goes further on for the Irish ...

 

Yes, along with the Corsican, Kurds, Catalans, Basques. Only they are people without a state of their own.

 

The Irish Unionist majority in NI don't want to be in another country.

1 minute ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Just thought you were a bitter Aussie from Irish ancestry with an enormous chip on your shoulder. 

 

 

The only chips you’ll find with me are the hot crispy ones I’m downing with my beers as I watch the slow motion train wreck! 

1 minute ago, samran said:

But this is the thing with the chest thumpers and the master racers isn’t it?

Didn't take long for the insults. As expected. who mentioned the master racers. You have a serious inferior complex.

2 minutes ago, samran said:

My ancestry matters not a jot (except to you), though I have Irish about five generations back as well as English

Well you have 4 Irish generations less than me. The rest I can't compete with.

 

I ask you where are you from as i know you are half Thai as you mentioned but why the constant Brit bashing.

12 minutes ago, DannyCarlton said:

Algeria did.

 

8 minutes ago, Laughing Gravy said:

Democracy you Dutch wouldn't know it if it bites you on the bottom. Laugh and clap about that. Again I not against Sinn Fein winning but your ignorance of who they were and are is astounding as your constant anti UK rhetoric.

 

https://euroculturer.eu/2016/12/05/the-ignored-revolution-the-dutch-referendum-crisis/

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-referendum-ignore-lisbon-treaty-nice-treaty-ireland-greece-france-netherlands-a7105261.html

 

There is more chance of Germany invading Holland again then Ireland unified. Obviously you are way out of touch with loyalists in Northern Ireland..

 

 

 

Yeah England's hands never carry blood from others isn't 'it ….? ????

Edited February 10, 20206 yr by david555