Some things probably have to be experienced before they are fully understood.
Consequently, there may be little to be gained from telling the uninitiated about what may await them.
However, if you are fortunate enough to be tutored by someone with more miles on the clock than yourself, then you are well-advised to pay attention to them.
In this decade of centenaries here in Ireland, I am reminded of precious time spent with my grandmother in Mayo as she told me about the dark days of the British occupation.
Now in my sixties, I get a sense that the folks in Brussels are currently receiving a similar hedge school education on the true nature of the Brits.
The idea that the UK government signed a deal that they somehow didn’t understand feeds the narrative that they are an ensemble of bumbling incompetents.
An alternative narrative is that they represent one of the most Machiavellian political elites on the planet.
The truth is probably between those two extremes.
However, Britain has a long history as an untrustworthy negotiator.
It is hard to dispute the analysis that Boris signed a deal with the EU intending to wriggle out of it when the full implications became apparent.
Some cynics have pointed out that this behaviour somewhat mirrors how he conducts his private life.
I, of course, couldn’t possibly comment.
This week, his erstwhile consiglieri Dominic Cummins has opened the door to the inner workings of Number Ten.
None of this comes as a surprise to those of us in the nation of the townlands.
Certainly not for my generation, who grew up listening to our grandparents and what they endured at the hands of the Brits.
Of course, the folk in the Six Counties have more immediate memories of the true nature of the British state.
So, where does this end?
Well, the EU could cave into the latest list of British demands.
For the avoidance of doubt, such a capitulation would cause an almost fatal rupture to the integrity of the Single Market.
This is worth your time.
The use of the term “gangsters” is key in this assessment by Peter Foster of the Financial Times in his conversation with James O’Brien.
Dear reader, the very idea that the EU will accept an “honesty box” agreement with the Brits is beyond satire.
The alternative to the EU rolling over is an escalating trade war with the UK.
I awoke to the brave new world on Brexit in June 2016 in my father’s town of Westport County, Mayo.
It was almost scripted to underline to me that “the never-failing source of all our political evils” had made a colossal error.
My grandparents were out in 1916, and the only reason you are reading this is that the Tans never caught my grandfather.
If he had not eluded them in plain sight, then his son, my father, would never have been born.
The Easter proclamation is the founding document of Irish sovereignty.
It states that in striking for our freedom, the Irish people were :
“…supported by her exiled children in America and by gallant allies in Europe….”
A century on, the folks in Brussels might utter “Plus ça change…” as Perfidious Albion is in danger of picking a fight with an opponent that economically towers over them.
Thanks to my grandparent’s generation, there is a sovereign Irish state with a seat at the top table in Brussels and an embassy in Washington.
That means that we have the means at our disposal to thwart the machinations of Westminster on this island.
Viewers in Scotland have their own programme.
My niece is a nurse working in Sick Kids in Toronto and has friends and classmates working in our other hospitals-shed paint a less rosy picture than Chris does.
Thanks to vaccinations we are slowly coming to grips with spread but the variants are dangerous and things are still fragile so a reversal may yet happen.
From the off this was treated as an economic issue-result we have a massive public health problem plus adverse economic results .
I have no ire for the likes of Chris he is basing his views on information that is untrue.
Many of the informants are ignorant but sadly some are deliberately peddling false info and these are the reprehensible ones in the political class and associated media supoort.
They themselves got vaccinated while advising others not to..
Anyone who looks to the US for disinterested aid is deluded Phil-they will help but their always a price.
Dont argue with yr characterization of Perfide Albion but Uncle Sam cd teach Westminster more than a thing or two about breaking treaties.
If Ireland needs support from Us vs the rump of the UK well so be it needs must-but have no illusions about the nature of the people you are cal;ing on for aid-and that swill be true regardless whether the ruling party is Democrat or Republcan.
This is the 21st Century and people like Chris are prepared to let folk die by calling it a fake pandemic and dissuading everyone from taking the vaccine.
I don’t want to lose any of my family but if Chris is happy to lose some of his then he really needs some serious help.
As a frontline worker I’m more than aware that this virus kills. It’s quicker to kill those who have underlying health issues but many people have underlying health issues without even being aware of it and are therefore more vulnerable than they think.
Chris would do better to familiarise himself with the agenda of those who are backing the anti-vaccine brigade or at least volunteer to work in the hospital wards where this virus doesn’t exist, all without PPE of course.
Smartest boy in the class syndrome here. HH
I hate it when commentators refer to Johnson by his first name. It implies a degree of familiarity that is unjustified. It also buys in to the notion that he’s some cuddly avuncular Mr Pickwick, when in actual fact he more resembles Mussolini.
There are at least two forces who would like to divide and conquer the EU, US and Russia being the main. There is a golden thread stretching from Downing St to the US then Russia and back again. England is but a disposable pawn in this stratagem whose greed thinks they will pick up many scraps from the table they sit begging beneath.
No offence, but your not seeing the full picture.
The Banking organisations that create money out of thin air and lend it to governments are the true rulers. With unlimited power they sit above all countries/regions & move the world in their desired direction. And that direction is always more power and control for them and less for the masses. This has ALWAYS been the game.
Its very simple.
The fake pandemic ticks all boxes for this agenda.
The problem with the sleeping sheeple is they have been fed television programming all their lives. They are fixated on the programming and believe what the bought and paid for stations and news outlets tell them. Its a puppet show, theatre for the masses. At the very top level they all work together.
Some simple things for the sleeping masses to consider
To start with heres a wee reminder. Ever since humans began, humans have always died. It happens, theres no way of stopping it. You know the old saying… only things that are certain are death and taxes. & death is the more certain of the two.
The covid19 “deadly pandemic” has had no material effect on the overall death rate. In fact in some countries deaths have been lower than normal.
So to believe that this pandemic exists, by default you have to believe in miracles. That somehow magically covid19 has prevented deaths from flu, heart failure, liver disease, car accidents, all the usual stuff. Oh and we are expected to believe that the flu, which has been forever, took a year out last year.
Onto how they are counting covid19 deaths and the PCR test.
The guy who invented the PCR test stated that the PCR test is not a test which can be used for infectious disease. Moreover the WHO and Anthony Fraudci himself has stated that running the test at over 30 cycles gives meaningless results. Goverments around the world have been running the test at 40-45 cycles. MOREOVER, since covid19 has never been isolated & identified, then there is no target for the PCR test.
So we have a test, which is not a test, testing for something that has never been identified & ramping up the test to a level which they have admitted gives meaningless results.
Any deaths within 1 or 2 months of positive test from above goes down as a covid19 death.
Thats just for starters.
I mean cmon, seriously.
Folks, you have to wake up. Fascism is at the front door.
If you tolerate this mandatory vaccination, then the kids will be next and it’ll be vaccines every year or you’ll be blocked from living your life. The medical apartheid has already started in the UK and Ireland. Can’t access certain places or go to work if your not vaccinated. I recall the Nazi’s used similar rules for the Jews.
Thankfully the French have pushed back, Macron had to back down on his stance because of the protests.
Check out the below, some brave souls who are standing for our freedom. Don’t take notice of wikipedia entries for them. Anybody who speaks out on these issues is blacklisted by big tech.
https://brandnewtube.com/@DrVernonColeman
https://twitter.com/BBGRichie
https://yourhealthdefender.com/
As the theme of the article states, wait until you see family members die from COVID which I hope you never do as it is brutal.
Is that right……… Aye !!!
Chris, I would say that Covid has lowered the amount of deaths from flu and car accidents. People weren’t mixing so much because of the restrictions so couldn’t pass any flu on and there were millions of less cars on the roads so obviously there will be less accidents and hence deaths.
You’ve not really thought about this have yourself have you? You’re just spouting garbage you’ve picked up on websites aimed at gullible people.
Is that the same Dr Vernon Coleman that worked for The Sun newspaper and wrote “It is now my considered view that the disease we know as AIDS probably doesn’t exist and has never existed” and that heterosexuals couldn’t catch it?
Is that the same guy your getting this stuff from?
It’s people like you that are stopping any real change by happening by getting caught up in and promoting batshit crazy conspiracy theories from grifters who will make videos saying anything as long as people are giving them money to watch their shite – the H is meant to be in there btw.
As a Doctor so perfectly put it…”So let me get this straight in my head, I can have Aids, Chlamydia, Gonorrhoea, Ebola, Hepatitis, Meningitis and conjunctivitis.. and I can eat in a restaurant and go to the pub.. but if I haven’t had a vaccine for covid-19 (aka nasty cold virus) … I’m barred”
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a danger to every man woman and child in the U.k.
“Sovereign Irish state” Phil what planet are you on.
Being part of a dictatorship isn’t sovereign. You now have medical apartheid in Ireland , also coming to the UK and rest of Europe.
The EU like the Uk and anywhere else is under the control of the banking elite & now also Billy Gates Big Pharma Industrial Complex. Its a big club and your not in it , as George Carlin said.
Dictating every part of the “useless eaters” lives. Crushing small businesses, purposefully destroying any hopes for the future we had. Hyper inflation is imminent because of these parasites.
Now its got to the point, where the sleeping masses fixated on bread & circus events, are happily taking an experimental injection with no long term safety data & a technology never before used in humans nor successfully used in animal trials. All for a “pandemic” which has so many holes in its story that it really does require the mentality of a sheep to believe it.
Chris, you need a nap. There’s a potato where your brain should be.
Turn off Fox News, or whatever bullshit program you’re getting your information from. Thinking like this is literally getting people killed.
The holes in the “pandemic story” do not come remotely close to the size of the hole between your ears. This disease IS truly awful and it could be many years before it becomes clear just how awful it really is.