Should Ireland Consider Leaving The E U S S R?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1460003/brexit-news-ireland-fishing-quotas-eu-european-union-fishing-ray-bassett

[ToraToraTora]

....oo and also my brother lives in a very small town out in the sticks.

[ummmm]

I can't take you seriously, TTT, when you can't type 'EU' and your use of slang. You're not even from London!

[ladybirder]

Ummmm I am puzzled by your comment, "I'm Irish....so please don't question me."
Why should you not be questioned because you're Irish?
Can you explain please?

[theshedman]

ummmm, are you from the north or the south. By the way the EU did nothing for our roads in the south west of England where I live. Pot holes everywhere.

[ummmm]

I did explain if you read the thread. The EU has benefited Ireland.

[ummmm]

I'm Tipperary, my OH is Sligo

We live in England.

[ToraToraTora]

ummmm: "I can't take you seriously, TTT, when you can't type 'EU' and your use of slang. You're not even from London!" - roughly translated, I don't want to play anymore because the nasty man made me look like a complete April! I reckon I've spent more time in Ireland and been to more places in Ireland than you and quite a lot of Irish people.

[naomi24]

Have you always lived in England, ummmm?

[ToraToraTora]

"Ummmm I am puzzled by your comment, "I'm Irish....so please don't question me."" - why not? we have established that you are basically clueless about Ireland, I'd say you do need questioning.

[ladybirder]

I have read the thread Ummmm and I still don't understand why you think you shouldn't be questioned because you are Irish.
You often say on here that nothing bothers you but ...

[theshedman]

Ok ummmm, couldn't work out why when you said you were Irish but voted to leave in the referendum. My aunty lives in County Tipperary in a small place called Cashel and she loves it there.

[gness]

Shedman @ 10.52. Exactly what Dave and I were discussing earlier. He didn't experience how deprived my home county and others were before we were in the EU, but he has lived here long enough to now know about and see the benefits.

The UK did little or nothing to gain anything for their deprived areas from the EU - London just didn't know (or care) enough about the South West or other deprived rural areas to bother applying.

There would be very few leave votes coming from here, and how odd that folk not living here should think it would be sensible to leave.

[jno]

lol, I which they'd applied to the EU tarmac mountain for something to fill the potholes of Barnet.

[youngmafbog]

At present I cant see anything that would make the Irish want to leave. Without doubt they have benefitted since they took out rather than put in until around 2016. Now the UK is not paying in the EU needs to raise revenue and its being touted Ireland will have to stump up double.

And that may be the problem going forward, especially if the EU also stop Ireland being a low Corporation tax country.

We shall see but my guess it will be 5-10 years or so before the effect ripples down to the man on the street.

[theshedman]

gness, we were in the EU for a long time and we still didn't get money for the south west so would staying in made it any different. They hadn't helped in almost 50 years so what would have made us think staying in longer would have helped us.

[jno]

theshedman, did you ask for EU funding and get turned down? Did the EU provide funds to Westminister that were then sent elsewhere in the country? The EU did provide something like £5bn a year to Britain, but I don't know who decided where it went.

[youngmafbog]

// but I don't know who decided where it went.//

Generally countries are told where to spend it by the EU.

The UK, being one of the major net contributors was in a different position to Ireland. Although like I wrote above this may change going forward.

[ToraToraTora]

well they'll be £12bn short going forward so I guess they'll have to get that wonga from somewhere. They'll all have to pay more and they won;t like that, especially the ones that have been net receivers up to now. The firesides will probably fill Paris with tractors!

[jno]

I'm not sure, ymb, I just found this

///All EU citizens can apply for EU funding. The EU has several different funding programmes that you may be able to apply for, depending on the nature of your business or project. Funding opportunities are also available through programmes that will be implemented directly by Member States, such as the Recovery and Resilience Facility or the Just Transition Fund. Before applying for funding///

https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/how-apply/eligibility-who-can-get-funding_en

It sounds as if a county, for instance, might have been able to apply directly.

[youngmafbog]

Yes, as I understand it (and I could be wrong) the country applies for a funding for whatever and the EU says yeah or neh.