There is no mystery, NI enjoys a special status in case of hard brexit because of the open border, it will always get the best of both worlds.
Brexit, for once some facts.
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This is only what a number of UK based companies are already doing in mainland EU countries. This wisdom is a two way street.
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And even more dramatically Mc Donalds opened two new branches giving work to twice as many people as that!
Good grief Tommie, is that the best you can scrape up to boast about?
I realise you are getting desperate, but do try to make a real effort to post something worth looking at.
.. that loan, and it was a loan was repaid with interest. We are and were suitably appreciative of the loan at the time as it was the first gesture of support at a bad time. However would NI be prepared to pay for the piece of motorway between Newry and Carrickaron?, Which the RoI built and paid for as a gesture of goodwill in what were better times.
You simply do not know that, it's what a court would call unjustified speculation. There are murderous mobs operating in countries in S america, funded out of money gained by selling illegal drugs in USA, and in come cases aided by decisions of the CIA to spancil the legitimate governments.
'Spancil'.....is that a typo "danidl'? I did look up the word and found a reference to a place in County Clare, 'Spancilhill', about which there is a song, written evidently by one, Michael Considine, although I imagine you know all that. As I can't make understanding of the word in the context of your piece, I'm guessing it was a typo?
Tom
What??!
Not a bit of it...
Ireland will not have to repay a £3.2 billion bailout-era loan to Britain early after Philip Hammond, the UK chancellor, said that the country could stick to the original repayment timeframe.
But Ireland’s Finance Minister Pascal Donohoe said a part of the bailout provided by the UK won’t be paid back earlier, because it would trigger a financial penalty.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/no-early-repayment-of-3-2bn-to-uk-jwp7pdsf3
So we`re still waiting...
and as for that bit of tarmac at the border, the next time you pass your TD Gerry Adams office pop in and get him to make a contribution, he`s bound to have some left over from our Northern Bank £26.5ml heist.
Oh dear, I forget that others might not have as broad an education. Not everyone has had the benefit of an irish education To spancil is to put ropes around the legs of horses in order to reduce their freedom. You might have preferred the word hobble, which is equivalent.
For what it's worth Considine is a subsect of the major Irish tribe O'BRIEN , and we are a vicious group, so don't cross us.
I think you're having us on! I tried spancil in this Irish to English translator and it just returned spancil.
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26 million might have just about paid for a mile or two and anyway, that money became useless some after by the simple expedient of changing the banknote.
Just think the 3 billion would cover only 4 months of subvention to NI from the rest of the UK, and that has been going on for decades!! .
i think you`ve got your billions and millions mixed up there.... you haven`t been on the claret?
Or are you just trying to spancil all of us this evening?
I am not... Where did the word spancil for spancil hill come from. I never said it was an Irish language word, .. but a word used in Ireland . It might well be from Elizabethan era English ( now that is a guess)
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That's not good enough! This thread is all about facts after all.
Tom
And from the Irish times ....2017 the following.
Ireland has now paid £358 million (€428 million) in interest to the UK on a crisis loan it gave to the State in 2010.
A total of £3.2 billion was lent by the UK to the Republic as part of an international rescue package of the State’s collapsing economy. The latest report from the British treasury says Ireland has now paid the UK £358 million in interest since 2011.
Since June 2014, the UK exchequer has received an interest payment of around £42 million every six months.
It will be March 2021 before the bilateral loan’s term is up. The final tranche of money was paid to Ireland in September 2013. The document said: “The [British] government agreed to provide a bilateral loan to Ireland because it is in the UK’s national interest that Ireland has a successful economy and a stable banking system.
“The links between our financial systems, particularly in Northern Ireland, mean that there was a strong economic case to provide financial assistance to Ireland. By being part of the international financial package, the UK indirectly supported the very many businesses across the UK that trade with Ireland.”
So rather than being a charity case, it is a lucrative business in a number of levels for UK LTD .
My understanding was in error and was based on the belief that the loan had been paid back, there had been public discussion and a desire to pay it off , but as has been shown the UK would prefer the steady interest payments instead.
.. I do apologise for the error.. it's only in the UK that motorway costs were 25million per km, in Ireland it was 15 million... , But since this road was in fact built in the UK, perhaps you might indulge me...
See .
https://www.engineersireland.ie/EngineersIreland/media/SiteMedia/groups/societies/roads-tranport/Delivering-the-National-Road-Network-Value-for-Money.pdf
Anyway.. just a heads up,
The BBC's EU Referendum result live programme is going to be shown again on BBC Parliament on Saturday from 9.55am throughout the day.
Tune in guys - don`t miss it - set your recorders!! lol!!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1009817637352890368
The BBC's EU Referendum result live programme is going to be shown again on BBC Parliament on Saturday from 9.55am throughout the day.
Tune in guys - don`t miss it - set your recorders!! lol!!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1009817637352890368
Obviously like you they must have nothing useful to say, it does support the idea that things are getting desperate if they have to
Screen it again to remind people they made the wrong decision, and watch the liars that conned them in to it all over again.
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.. who knew?
That's not good enough! This thread is all about facts after all.
Tom