tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post8386243218821191751..comments2024-03-28T13:35:30.500+00:00Comments on TPQ: Bring Back The Punt ✑ A Critique On Ireland’s EU MembershipAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-8660523828859157462022-04-20T08:36:37.493+01:002022-04-20T08:36:37.493+01:00Christopher - I am not sure there is a lack of ide...Christopher - I am not sure there is a lack of ideology. There are less rigid and deterministic ideologies and more of an ideology that is grounded in pluralism and secularism - all of it underpinned by the logic of capital. <br /><br />I think the Gemma boat has long sailed and the Right hunger for any form of Irexit will not be satiated from that source.<br /> <br />Of more significance than AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-91923722407628689422022-04-19T22:56:21.306+01:002022-04-19T22:56:21.306+01:00AM,
It certainly has been a mess. However, those ...AM,<br /><br />It certainly has been a mess. However, those who will argue the case will simply bide their time. That observation re. Lisbon, to me, highlights the lack of ideology and embrace of unadulterated opportunism in southern politics. I think said alienation will play a factor in a cultural breaking point (whether that be Irexit or something else) and it should be discussed. I have no Christopher Owenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05236891604706531905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-24046874239158709762022-04-19T22:46:24.506+01:002022-04-19T22:46:24.506+01:00Is it true it was only called the Punt because it ...Is it true it was only called the Punt because it rhymed with Bank Manager?Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-33147002683674918922022-04-19T18:46:28.964+01:002022-04-19T18:46:28.964+01:00I think the view of Brexit down here is that is ha...I think the view of Brexit down here is that is has been such a mess that there is no real appetite for leaving the EU. Many of those prominent in opposing the Lisbon Treaty now enthusiastically embrace the EU. I doubt the alienation you point to is going to manifest itself in Irexit - it might in a lot of other unsavoury things. This is a very pro European society and if that is to be usurped itAMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-73370734212773264762022-04-19T16:44:47.084+01:002022-04-19T16:44:47.084+01:00This is a really good piece which puts forward log...This is a really good piece which puts forward logical arguments instead of shrill chest beating.<br /><br />I do feel that there is fertile ground in the south for an Irexit movement (look at how the EU basically told the electorate to vote again after the rejected the Lisbon treaty in 2008). As well as that, there are still a lot of disenfranchised people, those who feel excluded from “officialChristopher Owenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05236891604706531905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-90662846204137435762022-04-15T11:18:20.213+01:002022-04-15T11:18:20.213+01:00My opinion on today's society is shaped by the...My opinion on today's society is shaped by the people who live in it rather than by those who used to live in it. I tend to view early 20th Century thinking much as I regard medicine from the same era: limited in its application. AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-13328976557368050142022-04-15T10:35:48.099+01:002022-04-15T10:35:48.099+01:00Thanks and yes unfortunately true, when elements s...Thanks and yes unfortunately true, when elements such as those are involved it is most difficult to make a persuasive argument for it. Connolly’s 1897 essay ‘Socialism and Nationalism’ helped shaped my opinion on the matter. Yet today such rhetoric can be a minefield and it is easy to give people the wrong idea. I think people need to unshackle themselves from reactionary labels because then all G Reid Patrick McKennahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04749026640450221389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-21580601982054998782022-04-15T08:03:39.690+01:002022-04-15T08:03:39.690+01:00There is never plenty on the Left to begin with. A...There is never plenty on the Left to begin with. Amongst those who are there are some who have always been Eurosceptic. However, they failed to make the running or capture the public imagination in either Ireland or the UK. When I think of Irexit the image of Nigel Farage coming over to campaign for it is the first thing to my mind. Whatever the merits of an exit, in the public mind it seems to AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-82395226622209770412022-04-14T21:23:06.177+01:002022-04-14T21:23:06.177+01:00Thanks AM. There are plenty on the left who are eu...Thanks AM. There are plenty on the left who are eurosceptic - there seems to be a mainstream agenda (somewhat reactionary) that assumes anyone who is eurosceptic is on the right - this is not so. ‘The Irish people will only be free when they own everything from the plough to the stars.’ JC. G Reid Patrick McKennahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04749026640450221389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-85206882712599048302022-04-14T20:37:58.722+01:002022-04-14T20:37:58.722+01:00If there is to be an Irexit (which I very much dou...If there is to be an Irexit (which I very much doubt) it is going to be driven by the Right rather than the Left, the type of people who are the polar opposite of the Connolly socialist Gowain feels he is. Unlike England, there is no detectable appetite for it. AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-91556417980846358872022-04-14T20:17:54.206+01:002022-04-14T20:17:54.206+01:00The problem is people have mistaken comforts for f...The problem is people have mistaken comforts for freedom! People fear if they leave the bosom of the EU they might lose a few pound or things might be ‘hard’ for a while - yet there are far worse things than that. People only think in the short term. EU has nothing to offer this country or its people - unless they want to destroy it. <br />Thanks for the comment. G Reid Patrick McKennahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04749026640450221389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-48589913401142247982022-04-14T19:26:09.642+01:002022-04-14T19:26:09.642+01:00Brexit has been a total shit show. Please let the...Brexit has been a total shit show. Please let there be no Irexshit.Barry Gilheanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220262677398695734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-25334539690669611882022-04-14T07:05:40.848+01:002022-04-14T07:05:40.848+01:00That's another kettle of fish! UK has regained...That's another kettle of fish! UK has regained control of mackerel, herring and shellfish stock along the Scottish coastline, and exports are strong. So Scottish fishermen are doing well. Fish processing in England/UK is thriving also. Some teething issues with UK fisheries is to be expected, and granted English fishermen have suffered. Thanks for the comment. G Reid Patrick McKennahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04749026640450221389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-43157080233408900312022-04-13T22:20:43.602+01:002022-04-13T22:20:43.602+01:00Ask English fishermen how their exit from the EU i...Ask English fishermen how their exit from the EU is working out for them. The Skinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14143160876578245037noreply@blogger.com