27-07-2020, 08:28 PM
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Re: Let's Face It Ireland Got Screwed
Originally Posted by Bread
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He is a glorified civil servant. Do we have to elect every member of the civil service ?
Who was it again, critisizing the EU being unelected civil servants. Turns out that for that reason, leaving the EU was unnecessary.
27-07-2020, 08:33 PM
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Re: Let's Face It Ireland Got Screwed
Originally Posted by Solasch
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Thank you for clearing that up. In the UK civil servants are members of the government.Who was it again, critisizing the EU being unelected civil servants. Turns out that for that reason, leaving the EU was unnecessary.
The civil service work for the government though.
What are you on about ? Do we have to elect each civil servant then ?
27-07-2020, 08:49 PM
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Re: Let's Face It Ireland Got Screwed
Originally Posted by JBR
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I must say, and I don't mean to be nasty, this is very entertaining.He seems to have no idea about democratic elections and how they work.
I assume that they still have elections in the Netherlands.
27-07-2020, 08:50 PM
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Re: Let's Face It Ireland Got Screwed
Originally Posted by Bread
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The civil service work for the government though.What are you on about ? Do we have to elect each civil servant then ?
27-07-2020, 09:20 PM
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Re: Let's Face It Ireland Got Screwed
Originally Posted by Bread
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Well, there are very strong links with the Irish and the USA.
The ghost of the Famine came back to haunt successive British Governments many years later during the "Troubles" of 1969-c.1999, when Irish-American $$ supported the military campaign of the Provisional IRA.
27-07-2020, 09:44 PM
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Re: Let's Face It Ireland Got Screwed
Originally Posted by OldFogey
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That's because of the Irish Famine of 1845-49, when more than 1.5m Irish people fled to the USA. The ghost of the Famine came back to haunt successive British Governments many years later during the "Troubles" of 1969-c.1999, when Irish-American $$ supported the military campaign of the Provisional IRA.
Yeah that old chestnut
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