As Irish Deputy Teasack
Coveney's statement was issued to the press, we provide a translation from the gaelic.
COVENEY
Covid-19 has made what is already a very, very difficult timeline to get agreement virtually impossible. Given the added complications of Covid-19 it surely makes sense to seek a bit more time to navigate our way through these very difficult waters in the months ahead so that we can get a good outcome for the UK and EU. I think anybody looking at this from the outside could only conclude it makes sense to look for more time but the British Government has decided that's not what they want and they have made that very clear both publicly and privately. I wouldn't be raising expectations around the British Government agreeing to seeking more time. If we're going to have any chance of persuading them to take more time then we need to be careful about how we do that because demanding it from them ... almost as a concession to the EU, is certainly not the way to do it.
TRANSLATION
We're buggered. Our demands for their fishing waters, subservience of British law to the ECJ and a ball and chain on their trade options are just unrealistic - they won't accept them. Even our effort to weaponise the Northern Irish border by demanding an office for the EU Gauleiter in Belfast has been rejected. We're not going to get an EU-weighted deal.
Anyone looking from the outside can see we're on the back foot and Germany will force through a trade deal anyway because her industrial sector demands it. And we need the City of London's services now more than ever - whatever Covid recesssion financial deal the ECB and Brussels stitch up, we will depend on London to be able to carry it out.
Begging the British government to give us a one or two year extension really isn't a good look. And they wouldn't even think about it - right now they can hide whatever minor economic ding will be caused by a third-country trade deal in December by the Covid fall-out, which will be ten times worse.
The Teasack needs to get ready to bite the pillow and ask the UK for a bail-out at the end of the year.
25 comments:
You've got your exit, you've got your Tory government, and yet the bile just grows ever the more bitter.
What is the matter with you?
Boris, Gove and Cummings had better hold firm. Any extension and those lent votes will be withdrawn forever.
When the Teasack comes begging, he should be re-directed to Brussels, and they in turn can go begging to Berlin.
Anonymous doesn't seem to grasp the bitterness and contempt from the leaver side was caused by the EU and the remainers. You reap what you sow!
JPM - amused, not bitter. I'm a believer in Karma.
Anon at the top is correct
You have got EXACTLY what you wanted & voted for & now you are complaining
Quiet Ma,
No:
The "leaver" side contains 2 components
The manipulators who stand to make hi=uge amounts of money from all of us And the bitter xenophobic Gammons who hatee anyone with not white skin &/or speak another language - who have been conned by the former
Amazing, Greg T provides a perfect example of what Quiet_Man mentioned.
Most of teh Leavers I know are neither of those two components - not even close - so you are a troll or just plain stupid.
@ Anonymous 08:31
"You've got your exit, you've got your Tory government, and yet the Remainer bile just grows ever the more bitter"
There, fixed that for you. And I offer Greg T's comment as evidence of Remainer bile.
@Anon
This is just rejoiniac projection. As the sheer scale of the disaster unfolds, the more desperate they are to get us sucked into it. It really has been an eye opener these last few years to see just how intense is their pure hatred for their own country. All they want is for this country to be destroyed, utterly.
As for Ireland, it isn’t even shite on their shoes, any more than Greece was (is). If paddy does ask us for a bail out (which would tax the legendary silver Irish tongue somewhat) I can’t imagine the Reich would be too pleased. Their fury would be amusing to watch from here, but it’s difficult to see what further damage their spite could do to Ireland that their hubris and arrogant incompetence hasn’t done already.
Germany has given notice that it's not going to bail-out anyone, anymore. The first overt step has been taken, Germany is going to take control of the EU, to save it (?), or Germany will leave the EU.
We live in interesting times..
Once we have truly left the EU at the end of the year, Constitutional Reformation is on the cards. What form this will take is up for discussion but certainly a reactivating of the Treason Act. So giving aid and comfort to HM enemies whilst employed by the state would be treated in the same way that Philby, Burgess, Maclean, Cairncross, Blunt and Vassall et al were treated. In time of war of course they would be dancing the hempen fandango and people like Blair and Major interned.
Awa an' bile yer heid, wee anonymous nyaff.
We voted to leave and forced the issue in the end because of people like Greg T.
Quiet Man
My late father, who was in Germany late May '45 to April'48 ( Civ Mil Gov, having spent most of WWII making & testing explosives! ) was a profound beleiver in the EU, for obvious reasons that you bloody idiots seem to have forgotten.
I first went there, with him, in 1965 & I've been back many times since & to other places, of course.
Brexit is complete, utter, total insanity.
And self-harm.
It's the British version of Juche - & we all know how well that works, don't we?
Show me ONE ACTUAL ADVANTAGE ( NOT "We could do this" ) of leaving not just the EU, but the co-operative organisations like:
Erasmus / EHIC / Euratom & all the other scientific & technical groupings - for what - some of Trump's wooden dollars for a greedy few & corrupt swine like Murdoch?
Not bile - reality:
WHO ARE YOU GOING TO BLAME, when it goes all pear-shaped, as it will?
The Jews?
READ MY FIRST SENTENCE, above.
Arkus
By the narrowest of majorities, on a fiddled electorate on false misinformation.
QUESTION:
Do any of you read that dangerous, left-wing socialist newspaper ... "The Financial Times" ???
I do - it might suprise you, very unpleasantly.
Could you please remind us bloody idiots what those obvious reasons are.
Could you then please rationalise these obvious reasons with the reality of the EU which is clearly in the process of falling apart.
And who are you going to blame?
If you want to blame us inselaffen please feel free. I'd be delighted to think we brought the whole rancid edifice down.
@Greg T
You can't help yourself can you? Nobody will *know* for many years whether Brexit was a good idea or not - although we all have our differing opinions right now.
But if the EU was so wonderful why did so many people vote to leave? If they were all misled then perhaps others who wanted to join or remain were also misled. Fiery rhetoric (on either side) does not validate the opinion.
And since the FT was pro-remain reading it is no confirmation of your credentials.
I remember when several journos on the FT also used to write for Marxism Today. No great surprise. Globalists and Marxists share many tenets - supranationalism, world government, a global system of laws, the rule of technocracy. All the things, in fact, that UK voters rejected on 23rd June 2016.
The reason we're leaving, Greg, is .... democracy.
A pity you have to misspell Taoiseach.
Demonstrates a lack of respect, on a par with a naff comedian who can only raise a laugh by swearing.
@DiscoveredJoys
How can you doubt? Of course it was a good idea.
There'll be the 350m for the NHS.
50000 new jobs for our own red tape.
The easiest trade deal which we've got in the bag.
Blue passports.
No need to wait.
An exercise for the imaginative mind. What if there is a 1% chance that Mr. Coveney is correct?
It says something when Greece and Italy look upon England with pity.
Could it be that the speech Boris read in his address to the nation was actually his article for the Telegraph? Different standards between T-readers and the nation.
What about Ireland. Do they pity us as well?
Greg T 15:33
Anon various.
You guys really don't get it, do you? If someone was asked to make a raving lunacy Remainer-esque post Greg has done it to a T. Can they REALLY be so totally blind and unaware?
We won not just a referendum, but numerous euro elections and national elections - many with overwhelming and ever increasing margins .. again because of people like you Greg T.
Let me reiterate... we won because of you and your rage. You steeled our resolve.
You.
@Mark - nothing in the news so far.
Well I suppose they would need the Reich's permission
Post a Comment