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A NEW PARTY is holding a conference in Dublin today where it will host a discussion on the possible benefits there would be for Ireland if it left the EU.
A meeting will be held this afternoon at the Bonnington Hotel; a ticket sourcing website said that over 50 tickets to the event were on offer.
Among the speakers at the event is Former Irish ambassador Ray Bassett. Ahead of the event, Bassett told TheJournal.ie that although he wasn’t involved in establishing the party, that Ireland “badly needed more debate” about its EU membership.
“The balance of advantages versus disadvantages of Ireland’s EU membership changes as time goes on… but the advantages are diminishing, especially if there is a no-deal Brexit.
Policies in Europe could mean that we’re restricted on the digital companies we have here, on our corporate tax rate, etc.
I think the best deal for Ireland would be that we remain in the single market, but leave the customs union.
He said that the Irish border is the main problem for Ireland and would cause huge problems if it were to come to fruition.
“That’s probably what brought me out on this issue,” he says. “There won’t be a border along the Irish Sea, even the Labour Party doesn’t agree with that.
But the UK isn’t the one that has a plan to establish a border on the island of Ireland – it’s the EU.
He said that people aren’t taking the likelihood of a border reappearing on the island of Ireland seriously.
“The Polish Foreign Minister said that it could come down to a crunch between a no-deal Brexit and the Irish border, and I’m not so sure what will win out.
The State papers from 1924 showed that Cosgrave’s government thought a physical customs border would be too much of an inconvenience for the British government to maintain, and it would force them to put a border along the Irish Sea, but that obviously never happened. It’s the same thing again.
Irexit party spokesperson
The party plans to run in the European and national elections on a platform that calls for increased Irish sovereignty through Ireland exiting the EU.
Speaking on Today with Sean O’Rourke this week, the spokesperson of the Irexit Freedom Party, Hermann Kelly, said that Ireland had fought for years against the United Kingdom to become “a self-governing independent state”.
“In 2011, the Irish Budget was approved in the Bundestag instead of the Dáil. The country was run by the Troika, they decided the economic policy of Ireland.”
He said that there had been a valid argument for Ireland to join the EU in the 1970s because it was “like a cash cow”.
“But going forward now, Ireland is a net contributor to the EU, we give them €2.7 billion (gross) per year, the net figure is half a billion.”
He said that Ireland was paying figures like Jean Claude Juncker to write and implement many of our laws, which he said were not helpful.
In a Red C poll, conducted on behalf of the European Movement group, 76% of people said that they “agreed strongly” that Ireland should remain as part of the European Union.
When asked about whether there’s public appetite for Irexit, Bassett says that polls before the Brexit vote indicated that Remain would win by a landslide.
“But in all honesty, it’s probably very much a minority taste,” he adds.
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Isn’t it already like mid December?
@Adam Rekio: It may seem suspiciously like mid-December but don’t let that mislead you because that’s just what they want you to think…
@Adam Rekio: William is right! Don’t just follow all the sheeple who simply swallow what the MSM tell them to! Do your own research. Those scientists and their MSM propagandists want everyone to believe it is mid-December. Take the red pill! You’ll soon wake up to what month it really is!
@Stephen Rogan: They’re shameless and totally amoral in the lies they tell! I don’t believe for a second that Y2K thing will be as bad as they claim and they’re still trying to convince me we had people on the moon. Have you ever seen the moon? It’s tiny even when it’s full! A bit like a brain that’s been fed one too many conspiracy theories really…
@Adam Rekio: nope. 16th pm onwards is mid December
@TomTraubert: onwards until when ? You’re simultaneously saying it’s a point in time rather than a time span, and that it’s a time span (without elaborating) in the same short sentence. Impressive
@William Tallon: LOL
Language like could,may,maybe,might,possible, probably,are what is scaring the life out of our older generation. When have any of the scary predictions on figures actually happened? The government have a hold on people and they don’t want to let go.
And in 6 months time it will be something else becoming dominant.. Why don’t the experts save themselves time and warn us that omicron isn’t the last instead of acting shocked everytime.
Coronavirus March 2020,
Alpha November 2020
Delta July 2021
Omicron November 2021
Anyone see the cycle
@David Lee: was just brought out in time for the Christmas number 1
@Philip McLoughlin: lol
Loads more scaremongering
No one cares
@Rob Gale: we share a border with this country
Has there actually been any deaths reported due to omicron? Or even hospitalisations? This is insanity.
@Hanna Crowe: not really. Insanity is listening to anti-vaxxers and those who do not understand science. A virus can only spread by close human contact. Vaccines prevent serious illness. Simple.
Dominant in 4 days. What’s the R value of this variant, 100?
Thank god for boosters. The WHO would have them sent them to timbuktu if they had the decision
@Peazel: you know more than the health experts, very impressive.
the health experts don’t seem to know a lot about it either if you read what they say about it, they use an awful lot of words like this could happen, this might happen, if this happens, maybe this might happen.
I thought the UK announced two weeks ago that they had beaten Covid with their approach of opening society during summer when people could be outside. And that everyone else’s (meaning Europe’s) had been wrong. What a shower of raving loonies.
@lelookcoco: at the start of the year most people were expecting an open summer, and winter. Vaccines, you know.
And if we banned cars and outdoor activities there would be less deaths…… We going have to assess. A world in which has increasing older population is not comparable to pandemics of yesteryear.
The trouble here is governments around the world think their ahead of the virus when it’s quite the opposite!
If Omicron pretty much goes about undetected then you can bet it’s already infected more than the tracing system has picked up..
Everyone still needs to keep their gaurd up because Delta is still the big bad circulating.
Vaccines work or not?
@Aonghus O Flaherty: Going off what they said last year…Nope.
@Josepi: What did they say last year?
@Aonghus O Flaherty: Yes. If you need proof, campare last January to now, look at the hospital figures, ICU numbers and deaths, and then think about the most important difference: last January we were locked down with only the essentials available. And now the country is open except for nightclubs
@Josepi: Who are “They”? If “They” are those who thought that vaccines are a magical shield that the virus bounces off, you were listening to the wrong people.
The Dup should put up or shut up and mind thier own business
Dr Facebook has arrived in the comments
@DJ François: Welcome:)
So sorry for those that go by way of the virus. For most others, its business as usual with the odd workaround.
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