The absolute, purblind *state* of this. And *this* passes for analysis? spectator.co.uk/2017/11/the-ir…
“If British politicians talked about a majority of the Irish electorate the way Varadkar does about Brexiteers, they would rightly be chastised” - bets? That rubbish in the Sun, that yahoo Leigh in the House and not a word of rebuke or dissociation?
That the Irish response has been studied politeness in the face of astonishing rudeness and ignorance, but a polite refusal to endorse the fantasies of Brexiters, isn’t an insult, lads. It’s the polite honesty of a patient friend.
Overt rubbish about Simon Coveney - the FG leadership contest was six months ago. Just because the UK’s foreign minister is a backstabbing piece of work on permanent manoeuvres doesn’t mean you can project your misfortune as universal.
And the whole thing an open exercise in, “Do the Paddies think they’re an actual country with interests they’re entitled to defend?” Croppies lie down, how are you.
As @ConorConneally put it - some world-class tansplaining. But, worse: counter-productive. If it induces this sort of gut-level fury at such arrogance and ignorance in people like me, you can take it the reaction is universal.
We are the best friends the UK has. We are trying to look out for your economic interests too. Culturally, politically, on every level - we are the best friends Britain has.
But we are friends. We are not servants. And things like this, like Davis’ insulting e-mails, like Johnson’s boorish attempts to get us to act against our interests to save his pachydermic political hide are treating us as servants.
And we cannot help you as friends if all we get is insults and everything slung back in our face when we point out we are friends not servants.
We have all worked so, so hard to make things better. We have made things better than we ever thought possible. And things like this seem hell-bent on making things bad again. Would you not, for the love of God, stop and *think* what you’re doing? Please?
