What's Happening in Ireland ?

[Alex]

Is Northern Ireland still part of the EU  ? 
Is Britain a 'safe' country ? 
We've already taken back 50 asylum seekers from the Republic of Ireland, will they be handing over all the illegals littering Dublin streets ?

Confused

[dextrous63]

I wonder if the RoI could try to repatriate its travelling community.

[muddy]

I would even contribute to their fare back home to the old country .

[dextrous63]

I would even contribute to their fare back home to the old country .

You probably have already paid for the court (and subsequent bailiff/police) costs of evictions, insurance hikes due to their criminal activities, plus the clean up of their fly-tipping.

But never mind, they claim to be misunderstood victims🙄

[klondike]

There was a section of road with very wide grass verges. The verges attracted our friends in caravans towed by transits who when they left seemed to have forgotten some of their possesions. The council adopted an innovative clean up technique. Tipper lories would arrive and cover it up. The resulting mud piles over time became grassy knolls which were completely unsuited to the parking of caravans. Now the entire section of road looks like it was landscaped.

We used to get the local recreation ground invaded but haven't been blessed with a call for quite some time. I'm not sure why. I had given some friends a garden bench with cast iron ends and wooden slats. They renovated it and it was in their front garden. During one of the treveller visits it vanished. Not enormously surprising but what was surprising was that half a dozed pound shop solar lights went at the same time. They must hve been pretty much valueless. They have replaced the bench. That one is bolted down now.

[JBR]

What surprises me is that the Pikeys seem to be effectively above the law.

If I did what they do - parking up a caravan in the middle of a park, nicking things, leaving shit, ruin and a general mess wherever I stay - I'm sure I wouldn't get away with it.

Is it that they are a highly regarded specie or is it simply that the coppers are afraid of them?

[muddy]

They are scared of them and are reluctant to act .
Pikeys are vindictive and will wreak revenge on the families of police .
There is a big camp near Reading where the police only go in in riot gear .

[JBR]

They are scared of them and are reluctant to act .
Pikeys are vindictive and will wreak revenge on the families of police .
There is a big camp near Reading where the police only go in in riot gear .

Yes, I'm afraid that is so.
The only way to restore Britain to what it once was wen ah wer a lad is to restore our borders.
No more free passage from Eire.
No more free passage across the Channel.

The world clearly sees Britain as weak, undefended and available for taking whatever they see.
How many years before we see a strong, pro-British government?
Perhaps never.

[klondike]

No more free passage from Eire.

There is a problem with that. An open border was part of the Good Friday agreement. It is why the Brexit agreement lead to a border in the Irish sea for goods. We can hardly have one for people as NI is part of the UK.

The solution to the Pikey problem is the same as it is for so many issues - the police need to uphold existing laws and not bugger around policing Twitter etc. when somebody complains that they are offended. A smack in the mouth gives real offence. If somebody doesn't like stuff they read online then the best solution for them is to stop reading it.

[Raven]

Time to go Backwards I think, Shake the Do Gooders up and teach the trouble makers a well needed lesson. Just need the police to man up.

[dextrous63]

I once worked in a school which was so far behind the times that it was ahead of the times, and hence successful and highly regarded.

Along came a new head who proceeded to modernise it.  Standards and reputation soon fell.

I think you can see the parallel I'm making.

[JBR]

I once worked in a school which was so far behind the times that it was ahead of the times, and hence successful and highly regarded.

Along came a new head who proceeded to modernise it.  Standards and reputation soon fell.

I think you can see the parallel I'm making.

Exactly.  Same experience for me - change of head and change of OFSTED reports.
Fortunately not too long before I retired.

[Diasi]

I once worked in a school which was so far behind the times that it was ahead of the times, and hence successful and highly regarded.

Along came a new head who proceeded to modernise it.  Standards and reputation soon fell.

I think you can see the parallel I'm making.

Exactly.  Same experience for me - change of head and change of OFSTED reports.
Fortunately not too long before I retired.

Not just schools, modernisation has wrecked all our public services which is why I baled out at 50.

[JBR]

Not just schools, modernisation has wrecked all our public services which is why I baled out at 50.

I agree.  Britain has risen to the heights and peaked when we controlled a quarter of the entire world.
Now we are heading rapidly to the depths, ultimately due to our own leaders and others of influence.

I wonder whether we'll ever manage to climb back up again.

[klondike]

I wonder whether we'll ever manage to climb back up again.

I'm pretty much certain that you don't wonder that at all. I certainly don't. I have no doubt whatsoever which direction we are headed and it ain't up.