I wasn't convinced, and it's a real shame that both sides haven't been more positive.

and between NI and England, as they're enshrined by the Good Friday Agreement.

Fun Brexit Fact:

If we leave the EU, the Republic of Ireland will stil be in the EU.

There will still be open borders between RoI and NI, and between NI and England, as they're enshrined by the Good Friday Agreement.

Irrelevant. It's all covered by the CTA anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Travel_Area

Irrelevant. It's all covered by the CTA anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Travel_Area

Well, if we exited the EU, you'd rather expect that we'd exit the CTA.

Because the ROI has contingent free travel arrangements with the EU that we would no longer be part of.

If we exit the CTA then you wouldn't be able to travel to the IOM or the Channel Islands freely. I would expect Ireland would have to exit the CTA if anything, considering they'd still be in the EU.

With apologies to our Manx brethren, same difference.

Anyway. I might be eligible for an Irish passport. unless having kids has fucked this

About 10 people have asked me if I've applied for one yet. Despite my name, I don't qualify at all.

Dickface?

Despite my name, I don't qualify at all.

US colleague told me she had Irish and Scottish roots, said family was "probably from somewhere near the border between the two"

US colleague told me she had Irish and Scottish roots, said family was "probably from somewhere near the border between the two"

I love it when colonials tell me they're proud of their Irish roots and decorate their pages on sinister Facebook with celtic patterns and slightly disturbing views on Anglo-Irish history. Usually it amounts to one great-grandfather who lived in Co. Tipperary in the 1870s.

Leaflet watch: 50% off Dominos and a catalogue for stair lifts and disabled access bath tubs.

...Well, cometh the hour and all that, home straight now.
I don't know whether it is wishful thinking/hubris on my part, but I've always said that I just can't see the British people voting Brexit, and I stand by that. Nationalism has (generally) never found as fertile ground here like it has in mainland Europe; the "British sense of fair play" isn't entirely a product of fiction, and parties ranging from the National Front, EDL, BNP and UKIP haven't won a single parliamentary seat between them. When push comes to shove (SNP aside), and whatever the polls suggest, we always pull back from the brink. Unity and collaboration trumps spiteful isolation and myopic, delusions of grandeur induced selfishness.

Until quite recently, I thought Farage was a "lovable rogue" type character; okay, I didn't agree with his views (not least because of my Eastern European parentage, but also because I believe in unity and hope, not division and "othering"), but heck, I thought - I can share a pint and a smoke with the man, he seems jovial and "real" enough. Slowly, though, and for me at least, the mask has been slipping, the wolf in sheep's clothing has been ever more evident. The final straw? That poster Cras posted the other day, and the unbelievably close facsimile to Nazi material of the '30s... a dark warning from History indeed.

Come on UK, we're better than this. Let's show that grasping mop-haired twat and Kermit the dustbin of history.

I do, however, deplore the shitness of the Remain campaign;

parties ranging from the National Front, EDL, BNP and UKIP haven't won a single parliamentary seat between them.

Until quite recently, I thought Farage was a "lovable rogue" type character; okay, I didn't agree with his views (not least because of my Eastern European parentage, but also because I believe in unity and hope, not division and "othering"), but heck, I thought - I can share a pint and a smoke with the man, he seems jovial and "real" enough. Slowly, though, and for me at least, the mask has been slipping, the wolf in sheep's clothing has been ever more evident. The final straw? That poster Cras posted the other day, and the unbelievably close facsimile to Nazi material of the '30s... a dark warning from History indeed.

I don't believe that most people are that stupid. I think people who argue that Farage isn't racist don't believe a word they are saying. It's like a nudge nudge wink wink thing between him and his supporters. Fuck all of them frankly.

o/

What's wrong with an EU Army? Why should I be terrified by it?