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The Trump Administration is ready and waiting to help make the UK great again. Go Brexit!

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The UK will be much better off after Brexit.

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Perhaps m'learned colleagues could explain how endangering the GFA will make the UK great again?

How will Scottish independence and the 6 counties being reunited with Ireland benefit the UK? I mean, I'm all in favor of it, but I don't think it will go down well with staunch unionists?

I can't see the DUP being very happy about it, especially with all the chatter about Sinn Fein doing the unthinkable and taking their seats in Westminster.

And the anniversary of Partition is looming, which probably won't be understood nor appreciated in modern Britain. It certainly will fire up some of the boys who see Mary Lou and the moderate Republicans as sell-outs. As her predecessor once said "they haven't gone away, you know".

The instability and volatility could lead to no small amount of chaos. And Brexit could be the spark, unfortunately.

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@toasted

Just because you are wishing these things to happen, doesn't mean they will.

6 counties will stay with the UK. 2 of them voted leave, remember?

Scotland won't become independent. 40% of SNP members want to leave the EU, remember?

The GFA will be unaffected as it has been said numerous times by the leader of Ireland and the UK, remember?

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@Wipeout

You said pretty much the same thing last week. I posted two links in response, which answer the question of the GFA.

I'm not going to bother posting them again because you won't look at them, you'll whine again and then change topic. If you are being genuine, go back and have a look at them

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Besides the fact that Ireland, the EU and the UK have categorically stated that they will not create a hard border.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/taoiseach-insists-there-will-be-no-hard-border-despite-eu-statement-1.3767158

https://twitter.com/nick_gutteridge/status/1110130145514438656

Can you tell me....apart from the phantom hard border argument, what other parts of the GFA are you afraid will be repealed?

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Who will construct this hard border?

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Given the already very low tariffs between the US and the EU it’s hard to see how this will compensate for the increased cost of trading with our nearest neighbours. I suppose it could open the doors to hormone injected beef, chlorine washed chicken and GM crops. Yum! lower food standards, just what we’ve always wanted.

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Just because you are wishing these things to happen, doesn't mean they will.

Just because unionists are wishing to maintain the status quo but leave the EU, doesn't mean things will stay the same in Scotland and Ireland.

6 counties will stay with the UK. 2 of them voted leave, remember?

If the make up of the EU can be changed in just a few short years, the same goes for the UK.

The GFA will be unaffected as it has been said numerous times by the leader of Ireland and the UK, remember?

He's warned that “There is no Withdrawal Agreement without a backstop and there is no implementation period without a Withdrawal Agreement.”

If there is no backstop, there is a danger of the British border being fortified again, which nobody wants to see.

You got your Brexit, or would have, if the DUP and other hardliners hadn't stalled. Now it's time for others to get their independence. To "take back" their countries, to use a familiar phrase.

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So it's just going to be left open then. That's what you're saying, isn't it?

I'm caliming there isn't going to be a hard border. You are. So, I ask again. Who will construct it? If you are so sure there'll be one, who will build it?

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You got your Brexit, or would have, if the DUP and other hardliners hadn't stalled.

You got your Brexit? You mean May's surrender treaty which included continued membership of the Single Market and Customs Union, and then continued FoM. All of this with added "You can't make your own free trade agreements and you'll continue paying vast amount of money into the EU budget"? Yeah, no thanks. That wasn't Brexit in any sense. It was comfy Remain.

Now it's time for others to get their independence.

You need to stop being subversive. You have got to start respecting the wishes of people who have their own freedom of choice. Northern Ireland does not show any majority towards joining the Republic.

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Irish reunification is going to happen. Partition wasn't meant to last.

There is absolutely nothing "subversive" about that.

What are you going to do when the people of Northern Ireland don't want it. Are you going to undermine them? That's pretty subversive.

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What are you going to do when the people of Northern Ireland don't want it. Are you going to undermine them? That's pretty subversive.

And that's pretty disingenous of you.

Nothing subversive about aspiring to a United Ireland. Post-Brexit, this is likely to become a reality.

Supporting the unification of Ireland is nothing sinister. Please don't conclude that it is.

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You aren't content with leaving Northern Irish people to make the decision themselves. You want to work against that will. That is sinister.

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You aren't content with leaving Northern Irish people to make the decision themselves.

You want to work against that will. That is sinister.

Twaddle. The people of Ireland, north and south will eventually vote in favour of a 32 county Republic.

Aspiring to that, by peaceful means, in a democratic fashion is not sinister.

Your attempts to smear me, however, are cause for concern.

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The people of Ireland, north and south will eventually vote in favour of a 32 county Republic

But Toasted. What if they don't. What if they want the opposite of what you want?

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@Zichi

And where in signed agreement between the EU and the UK does it state that when the current agreement includes the backstop.

All three parties have stated it.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/taoiseach-insists-there-will-be-no-hard-border-despite-eu-statement-1.3767158

https://twitter.com/nick_gutteridge/status/1110130145514438656

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But Toasted. What if they don't. What if they want the opposite of what you want?

Dialogue.

Not violence, not underhanded tricks, not smears or sectarianism.

Certainly not the jingoism and falsehoods promoted by Johnson et al.

Irish people want reunification. But it must be peaceful, democratic and inclusive. Otherwise it can't work.

I'm not sure what you want me to say - just what exactly are you implying?

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Then please provide a link to the document signed by the EU/Ireland/UK agreeing there will no border under any circumstances between the North and South of Ireland, and that the already agreed backstop is amended and cancelled

Why would there be a document? I have never said that there is an agreement between them. I am saying there'll be no hard border because all three parties have said they'll not construct/enforce one.

You need to produce some evidence of the EU, UK or Ireland stating that they'll create a hard border. Do you have such evidence?

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Irish people want reunification. But it must be peaceful, democratic and inclusive. Otherwise it can't work.

Can't speak for the Republic, but Northern Irish people don't want it. You need their consent. You believe they want to rejoin Ireland, but I'm telling you they don't.

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@Zichi

You can't say all the people of Northern Ireland do not support a united Ireland

Yes, you can. If that changes in future, then you can say the opposite.

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Can't speak for the Republic, but Northern Irish people don't want it. You need their consent. You believe they want to rejoin Ireland, but I'm telling you they don't.

I can't speak for the Irish people ( of the 32 counties) but there was no consent when Partition was forced upon the country.

I'm telling you. The days of "no surrender" triumphalism and discrimination against Catholics are long over.

From Ballymena to Bantry, the bells will be ringing when the chains are finally broken.

5, years, 15, 25... it's going to happen. And to think, it was Brexit that broke the union!

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I'm telling you. The days of "no surrender" triumphalism and discrimination against Catholics are long over.

Yes, the days are over. So, stop trying to force your will on others.

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@Zichi

It's starting to feel like I'm having a conversation with an automated voice service.

Because all government agreements require a legal signed document not just "he said so!"

I. AM. NOT. SAYING. THE. UK. AND. EU. HAVE. MADE. AN. AGREEMENT. TO. HAVE. NO. BORDER.

They have all stated that they themselves will not construct one.

The backstop is a hard border. The EU requires a border between itself and the other non EU countries just like in the case of the UK/France.

Not my question. One last time. WHO. WILL. BUILD. THE. HARD. BORDER?

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@Toasted Heretic,

youre the one who said when people are fighting for their freedom there are going to be casualties.

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youre the one who said when people are fighting for their freedom there are going to be casualties.

Yes, see the peaceful Civil Rights marches in Derry and how British soldiers murdered protesters.

You haven't replied to my initial question, btw. About the GFA, and how it will make the UK much better off, being endangered.

I'm presuming you don't wish for a resurgence of the troubles and children's being intimidated on them way to school.

Do you think the DUP have a leg to stand on?

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