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Blue_Tires

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1. Poor Britain... If only someone tried to warn them what a nightmare this would be

Reply to OnDoutside (Original post)

Fri Dec 1, 2017, 07:47 PM

Dec 2017

But no.... Farage+Johnson had the whole nation believing that they could vote YES on Tuesday, get all the Brexit paperwork done by Thursday, and by Friday police would be rounding up the nonwhite immigrants for summary deportation....

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Brexit : If UKs offer on the Border is unacceptable to Ireland it will be unacceptable to the EU [View all] OnDoutside Dec 2017 OP

Poor Britain... If only someone tried to warn them what a nightmare this would be Blue_Tires Dec 2017 #1

AND 350m a week extra to spend on the NHS ! That didn't make it past 24 hours of their win. OnDoutside Dec 2017 #2

Brits got sold a bill of goods gratuitous Dec 2017 #3

Time and again conservatives prove they can't think ahead more than week or so ProudLib72 Dec 2017 #4

There's a certain amount of mirth at their predicament, but the real fear is the effect a Hard OnDoutside Dec 2017 #5

I doubt a hard border would turn into the next Falls Rd ProudLib72 Dec 2017 #11

Tell that to the Republicans in bandit country. They didn't want a OnDoutside Dec 2017 #12

Ok, what you are alluding to is another ProudLib72 Dec 2017 #14

Sounds like Ireland can hold this up for as long as they want. BannonsLiver Dec 2017 #9

Undoubtedly a subject of mirth in Ireland gratuitous Dec 2017 #17

I don't think anyone really believed it would happen Sen. Walter Sobchak Dec 2017 #10

My cousin is a top lawyer in London, and 4 of his top 6 clients OnDoutside Dec 2017 #13

The message from the top where I work is our future is in France Sen. Walter Sobchak Dec 2017 #16

I love le Sud Ouest too...was in Castres in Oct, Biarritz next April. OnDoutside Dec 2017 #18

Sounds like Ireland is saying, not so fast eh nm AmericanActivist Dec 2017 #6

There's too much at stake for us in Ireland to take the British Government at their word. OnDoutside Dec 2017 #7

Agreed and historically theres reason to be AmericanActivist Dec 2017 #15

Damn, if thats not an example of revenge being a dish best served cold I dont know what is. BannonsLiver Dec 2017 #8