by nabidana | May 11, 2019 | Brexit, Europe
If we’re being scrupulously honest, very few of us would have considered where we are now in the Brexit process to be the pink of perfection. We aren’t, to put it mildly enough for some of my more sensitive Twitter followers, exactly cock-a-hoop with...
by nabidana | Nov 19, 2017 | Brexit, Europe
TL;DR: Brexit is a good thing; we should be throwing a fucking party. The price of freedom is to want for nothing more. We should be ready to walk away from a bad deal. Share on X Hurting Ireland in a no-deal Brexit would be unfortunate, but the UK must follow its...
by nabidana | Jun 2, 2014 | Conservatives, Europe, politics
“What is one to make of the rise of UKIP?” – asked nobody with any commonsense, ever. That having been said, there are plenty of people with no commonsense desperate to shrinkwrap a simple answer to the problem of the purple and yellow party (by remarkable coincidence...
by nabidana | Dec 6, 2011 | Europe, Ireland, politics, unstupidity
To the lovely (and now engaged) @sharonashambles. Ireland is screwed. From the moment some moron decided to break away from the greatest nation on Earth, through the moment someone thought it’d be a good idea to shoot the chap who negotiated peace with the...
by nabidana | May 10, 2011 | Europe
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN_9r8XWPv4 Obvious but necessary
by nabidana | Nov 18, 2010 | Europe, Ireland, politics
The striking thing about the Irish Sovereignty arguments re: the bailout is how non-sovereign and dependent Ireland has been since the beginning of the twentieth century. First, between 1900 and 3 May 1921, Ireland was under British administration; clearly not...
