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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jun 27, 2016 20:14:11 GMT
George Will, veteran conservative US pundit, has formally left the Republican Party - he changed his voter registration from 'Republican' to 'unaffiliated' after Paul Ryan endorsed Donald Trump.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Sept 5, 2016 12:04:59 GMT
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Post by greatkingrat on Sept 5, 2016 13:11:33 GMT
Has Ireland rejoined the UK without me noticing then?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Sept 5, 2016 13:18:54 GMT
Has Ireland rejoined the UK without me noticing then? The Republic of Ireland is not a foreign country: Ireland Act 1949 s. 2(1). |
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Post by MeirionGwril on Sept 5, 2016 13:48:20 GMT
Tell that to the Irish .....
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Sept 5, 2016 13:58:52 GMT
If the Irish were considered foreign, they would not be able to enter the UK without any controls, to live and work here on the same basis as British citizens, and to vote in UK elections if resident here.
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Post by Kristofer Keane on Sept 5, 2016 18:29:54 GMT
If the Irish were considered foreign, they would not be able to enter the UK without any controls, to live and work here on the same basis as British citizens, and to vote in UK elections if resident here. Well, will this still be the case after Irish reunification? |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Sept 5, 2016 18:34:38 GMT
If the Irish were considered foreign, they would not be able to enter the UK without any controls, to live and work here on the same basis as British citizens, and to vote in UK elections if resident here. Well, will this still be the case after Irish reunification? Difficult to say given there's no proposal for Irish reunification at the moment. Of course if Ireland is reunified as part of a United Britain, then there would be no problem. |
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Post by MeirionGwril on Sept 6, 2016 8:28:29 GMT
Well, will this still be the case after Irish reunification? Difficult to say given there's no proposal for Irish reunification at the moment. Of course if Ireland is reunified as part of a United Britain, then there would be no problem. More likely to be a federation of Ireland and Scotland before there's a united North West European Archipelago, heh heh  |
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Post by Lord Twaddleford on Sept 6, 2016 11:38:18 GMT
Difficult to say given there's no proposal for Irish reunification at the moment. Of course if Ireland is reunified as part of a United Britain, then there would be no problem. More likely to be a federation of Ireland and Scotland before there's a united Britain, heh heh To be unreasonably pedantic, there already technically is a united Britain. Since 1707 I do believe. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2016 19:29:25 GMT
If the Irish were considered foreign, they would not be able to enter the UK without any controls, to live and work here on the same basis as British citizens, and to vote in UK elections if resident here. Apart from voting rights in national elections these are the same rights people in the Nordics have in each other's countries, so that only indicates an especially close connection. |
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Post by john07 on Sept 7, 2016 20:07:46 GMT
If the Irish were considered foreign, they would not be able to enter the UK without any controls, to live and work here on the same basis as British citizens, and to vote in UK elections if resident here. Apart from voting rights in national elections these are the same rights people in the Nordics have in each other's countries, so that only indicates an especially close connection. There has always been passport free travel between the UK and ROI. Unless you travel Ryanair! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2016 20:10:42 GMT
Apart from voting rights in national elections these are the same rights people in the Nordics have in each other's countries, so that only indicates an especially close connection. There has always been passport free travel between the UK and ROI. Since 1952 in the Nordics. |
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Post by john07 on Sept 7, 2016 20:52:28 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2016 20:58:57 GMT
Well, its still passport free. Just photo-ID for Nordics. |
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Post by john07 on Sept 7, 2016 21:47:15 GMT
Well, its still passport free. Just photo-ID for Nordics. But you don't need photo ID to go from UK to the Republic. At least for travel by sea or land. Or not when I travelled there last. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2016 21:54:30 GMT
Well, its still passport free. Just photo-ID for Nordics. But you don't need photo ID to go from UK to the Republic. At least for travel by sea or land. Or not when I travelled there last. No, but the temporary situation in connection with the refugee crisis has little to do with the general principle, which was why I brought it up in the first place. Except the national suffrage (which is mostly a matter of the Nordic countries having written constitutions that are quite difficult to change) the situation is by and large similar, so the UK/Ireland situation isn't unique. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2016 22:45:31 GMT
But you don't need photo ID to go from UK to the Republic. At least for travel by sea or land. Or not when I travelled there last. No, but the temporary situation in connection with the refugee crisis has little to do with the general principle, which was why I brought it up in the first place. Except the national suffrage (which is mostly a matter of the Nordic countries having written constitutions that are quite difficult to change) the situation is by and large similar, so the UK/Ireland situation isn't unique. Temporary? I doubt it. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2016 22:59:02 GMT
No, but the temporary situation in connection with the refugee crisis has little to do with the general principle, which was why I brought it up in the first place. Except the national suffrage (which is mostly a matter of the Nordic countries having written constitutions that are quite difficult to change) the situation is by and large similar, so the UK/Ireland situation isn't unique. Temporary? I doubt it. The refugee crisis isn't temporary, but the Danish-Swedish border control is. The Greater Copenhagen-Malmö-Lund area is basically one integrated city area and its not sustainable long time. Its like imposing border control between London and Essex (though some would probably think that was a good idea..). |
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Post by froome on Sept 8, 2016 6:33:36 GMT
The refugee crisis isn't temporary, but the Danish-Swedish border control is. The Greater Copenhagen-Malmö-Lund area is basically one integrated city area and its not sustainable long time. Its like imposing border control between London and Essex ( though some would probably think that was a good idea..). I hear walls are coming back into fashion now...  |
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