Why Ireland Is Emerging as Brexit's Biggest Winner

When the UK decided to leave the European Union, few anticipated the ripple effects it would have on its closest neighbor, Ireland. Dublin emerged as the unexpected winner, drawing global financial firms and solidifying its role as the EU’s gateway. But how did Brexit reshape the Irish economy, redefine trade across the Irish border, and boost Ireland’s global standing? In this video, we dive into Ireland's remarkable rise in the shadow of Brexit, uncovering the strategic moves, surprising outcomes, and what it means for the future of the UK-Ireland relationship.
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[@Bolsonaro_em_Haia]

Brexit seems to have been carefully conceived to benefit everyone except the UK.

[@YurinanAcquiline]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Nickname-ef9tv]

It is still a net loss for everyone. Even the Irish, despite their good crisis management, would be better off. It is just that the UK as the epicenter of that crisis is magnitudes worse off than the EU, to whom crisis management is part of their raison d'etre.

[@howardosborne8647]

And in that guise it worked very well🤣

[@JoopHbR]

Putin is a big winner in this, anyway!

[@yeahdude7]

This is what the British wanted and what they voted for.

[@Tridhos]

Always remember not long after the UK had decided to leave the EU, Farage went on an Irish radio show and told the interviewer that Ireland would soon follow the UK out of the EU only to be told that the latest Irish poll had shown over 80% in favour of remaining.

[@donaldeeney]

The Irish electorate have yet again voted in the same gangsters and gombeen men/women that are wrecking Ireland with Open Borders, the Emigration of the youth, no social housing for the local young generation, high end property prices, and domestic laws and policies that are destroying social cohesion throughout Ireland.....the price of 'progressive' politics.

[@jimmorris1424]

A lot of people seemed to forget what a scumbag Farage is actually. UK public is the easiest to sway. I can bet after few years Keir Starmer will be looked more favourably. Because British people have a memory of a goldfish.

[@tomweldon7608]

And yet when we had an actual vote.. the lisbon treaty it was totally different

[@johndevoy5792]

@ According to the most recent eurobaromer, Ireland is at 89% support for the EU and 77% positivity about the future of the EU

[@johnhale4258]

Seems the Irish are not so stupid to believe Nazi Farage and his lies as the English. Who would ever have throught that !. Also an Irish passport far more powerfull than the new black, tatty UK one.

[@alawoye]

Good for ROI 🇮🇪 , as a Brit, I wanted Stay, but happy to see Ireland benefit, I wish them greater success ahead and will relocate myself as soon as possible 😊

[@HenryBaggins-rz7mq]

I wanted the UK to stay as well. The EU is far from perfect and it badly needs to be reformed. The UK has the clout to do that but now it's not possible. It's a power grab by a handful of little Napoleons. Good luck but it's a pity you left.

[@tonymurray814]

@@HenryBaggins-rz7mqgood point

[@BASSER81]

Well man it may look like we are succeeding but the average joe can’t afford a home!

[@LeonVEKH]

​@@BASSER81It is the same in pretty much the majority of the world, I think if the giv' does not makes some much needed changes, like putting in a proper rent cap would be a start, there is likely going to be yet another brain drain over the next few years sadly.

[@FennessyMusic]

And you'll be welcome!

[@Alex-pr6zv]

Ireland is now also the No. 1 destination for Erasmus students from the EU studying English. Study places at Irish universities are more sought after than ever before. This lively exchange also brings benefits for science and research, which the UK turned down.

[@alexanderromanov737]

And the opportunity for the young Irish students to mate with a wonderfull gene pool of healthy, multi lingual, Swedish beauty queens and Italian beach stalions. Bingo, culture, education and some Guinness fueled interaction.

[@louisebrigidobrien772]

Dublin negotiated that Northern Ireland stayed in Erasmus

[@Bolsonaro_em_Haia]

Yeah, hasn't Brexit kept the UK away from Erasmus as well? It is incredible that they went so deep in their efforts at self-harm.

[@merkvandermeulen3978]

University students usually also pick up part time jobs to pay their way, like in hospitality and services. UK lost 75% (!) of them, going from 36,000 to 12,000 while Ireland saw its applications more than triple between 2017 and 2022.

[@GlynBoughton]

Erasmus cost the UK £160M a year

[@maxharbig1167]

Rees-Mogg's investment management company Somerset Holdings quickly registered two subsidiaries in Ireland in order to continue to have a foothold in the EU. When an arch Brexiteer hedges their bets like that it highlights just what a chancey operation Brexit was viewed as even by its leading advocates.

[@malahammer]

There was a couple billion pounds involved and all taken out of the UK. Less earnings for the UK. Thank you Rees Mogg!

[@bigrobsydney]

That alone tells us what the truth is about Brexit. And yet, people like JRM managed to con so many voters. What a scumbag.

[@geraldgallagher7243]

@maxharbig1167 yes and the Govt of Ireland put a stop to crooks like him "brass plating" so called Companies to avoid the damage his Brexshit lies caused!

[@tonymurray814]

Rees moggs is a prat and an anti Irish bigot end of!!

[@AnBreadanFeasa]

Did you know that Londonderry is the only word in the English language with SIX silent letters? It's actually pronounced D E R R Y ☘

[@jackkelly335]

How about Derrylondon?

[@hibernia51]

🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@AnkhaLover333]

It's the same name except Londonderry is just the older name. That's all

[@williamcreighton1417]

Stroke city

[@LambentIchor]

@AnkhaLover333 Why do people like you make such ignorant comments when Google is right there?! The original name for the place was 'Daire Calgaich', where 'daire' means 'oak wood'. This is back about 1500 years ago at least. After that it became ‘Daire Columb Chille’ in honour of the Irish saint Columba. All still in the first millenium. Daire became Doire, which is still the name in Irish. This was anglicised to Derry, and it was only in 1613, the prefix ‘London’ was added.

[@davidh6543]

Britain's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity. Never a truer word was spoken. Britain DID try to bully Ireland over the Border post-Brexit, but soon realized that their customary contempt and disregard for Ireland's concerns didn't wash, Ireland played a blinder with preparing for, and mitigating the damage of a possible Brexit majority in the UK, which is more than the Brits did. Very few in Britain thought enough people there would be dumb enough to vote for a pig in a poke, and the pro EU campaign was lack-lustre....oh well there ya go.

[@geordiewishart1683]

The Brits. Do you refer to Pakistanis as Pakis?

[@redbagsrambler9326]

I’ve never seen a nation commit mass economic suicide before. Anyone capable of logical thought could see what the future held for the UK upon departure from the EU.

[@andylucas1175]

Wholly correct, though Brexit was really conceived as a way of avoiding tax and continuing money laundering for the wealthy. Brexit only required a sustained propaganda campaign, targeted towards xenophobic and racist groups, to succeed; it easily found those groups within British society (all those diversity courses people attended, via work programmes, proving to be a complete waste of money because the attendees learned only to cover their own backs), thus demonstrating the low moral compass of the majority of the electorate. I loathe everything about Brexit, however, I have to admit it engineered an impressive propaganda campaign. Due to the risk of creating thinking people, as opposed to servile, acquiescent, workers, critical thought is not included on the educational curriculum and never will be included.

[@evancleary3315]

its a lot of fun to watch

[@tedcrilly46]

And cultural. UK could have just kept EU immigration. Cut the rest. But oh no, brexit brexit brexit.

[@ettoreatalan8303]

The UK is not even ahead in economic suicide. A few years after Brexit, Russia has surpassed the UK.

[@Nehmi]

The US just voted Trump in so just you wait.

[@davew4939]

There is no Irish border, there is the British border in Ireland. Ireland’s border is the sea.

[@PaulJohnston-n5w]

@@davew4939 Just idiotic semantics. Since it is a border between 2 jurisdictions within the Island of Ireland it is not unreasonable to call it the Irish Border. Since it is the demarcation between the United Kingdom and the Irish Republic you can call it the British border if you like. It is certainly recognised in the Good Friday Agreement - approved by simultaneous majorities in both jurisdictions on the Island . Recognised also by both police forces and by the courts. And outside the island and certainly outside these 2 Islands it is referred to as the Irish border to differentiate it from other borders . Like many landmasses it is surrounded by water and like several landmasses it has several nations or parts thereof within in it. Just ask the North Americans which have 3 nations within a lands mass or South America which has many more - and their definition of their nation is not that it is surrounded by water. Even the US is not contiguous with Alaska and Hawaii.

@@PaulJohnston-n5w It is temporarily recognised so it can be removed. There is no future in england's dreaming.

[@Driver2616]

@@PaulJohnston-n5w: What?

[@sloopy-us2uy]

​@PaulJohnston-n5w the gfa says,;there should be no physical border anywhere within the island of Ireland. Brexit meant there had to be physical borders. The solution was that the physical border is in the sea between Britain and Northern Ireland, hence no irish border

[@PaulJohnston-n5w]

@ The GFA does not say any such thing. I’d be grateful if you could point out where in the text of the Agreement that such a commitment exists. The agreement states that "the development of a peaceful environment... can and should mean a normalisation of security arrangements and practices." The government committed to "as early a return as possible to normal security arrangements in Northern Ireland, consistent with the level of threat". That included "the removal of security installations". Such installations were duly removed in keeping with commitments. There would be no need for any security to protect Customs posts providing there was no attack upon them. At no time did the UK commit to having its international economic and commercial arrangements frozen for all time. I should also point out that the Irish Republic had referenda that would have taken it out of many European arrangements re Maastricht and Nice. In fact many Irish people would point out that the Irish Govt did not accept the referendum results but just kept asking the question until it got a result with which it agreed. And of course Sinn Fein argued for 2 different outcomes on either side of the border.

[@stevefurlong79]

I feel bad for all the reasonable British people who knew Brexit was a bad idea from the start.

[@martinbanks7686]

Phuque the pack of yez 😂

[@jimmiller5600]

"never interrupt your opponent while they're making a mistake". Well played Ireland.

[@kierondurney8386]

In 2015 the Irish Government set up a committee to draw up a plan on how to protect Ireland's Economic Interests in the event of a 'Yes' vote in the Brexit Referendum. It was never envisaged that it would actually be needed but, given that Ireland had the most to lose in the event of Brexit, it was thought prudent to have one. In June 2016 on the day after the Referendum, while Westminster and the rest of Europe was in stunned disbelief at what the British had done to themselves, the Irish Government contacted all of the other 25 EU member States (Britain wasn't included) and requested an urgent meeting. Within 48 hours, with Irish Govt Ministers fanning out across Europe in a preplanned move, every one of those 25 meetings had taken place. Each Member State was informed that Ireland had a plan about how to deal with the inevitable withdrawal negotiations. The plan was detailed and covered all aspects of Irish Interests - Fisheries, Farming, Finance, Energy, Movement of goods , people and security etc etc. In each area it identified what were the threats to Ireland's economy; it further identified what was essential to protect Irelands interests and what areas Ireland might have to concede. It provided a road map for how the EU might conduct the negotiations. Very cleverly the main argument used by Dublin to sell Ireland's plan was that it would protect the N. Ireland Peace Process. No other member state had done similar work, including Britain and the plan was eagerly accepted. During the first major meeting between the EU Commission and Ireland after the referendum, it was announced at the Press Conference afterwards that Irelands concerns were the EU concerns - that the Peace Process had to be protected. Over the following years while the ruling Conservative party in the UK tore itself apart over Brexit, the Irish plan remained the foundation stone of the EU position in the negotiations, including in the Windsor Framework talks. The Dublin Government plan, drawn up with great foresight, has done an excellent job of protecting Irish interests since then. The Brexiteers were so focused on what Brussels was doing that it doesn't seem to have even occurred to them to glance across the sea to Dublin and ask 'What are the Irish up to'? Rather a lot as it turned out.

[@derekmulready1523]

Priti Patel. Threatened to Starve Ireland. Because Ireland wouldn't ratify the Brexit. Ireland produce enough food to feed 25 million people annually. Population 5.5M. 🇮🇪🇪🇺

[@seanmccann8368]

She was priti dumb that day.

[@f-ergo9670]

@@seanmccann8368 That is a priti awful joke.

[@wedjet]

Threatening Potato Famine? That's Stalin-level.

[@voodo0983]

5.5 million, and expanding rapidly and not by Irish. Looks like we are starting to feed the third world.

[@martanoconghaile]

@@wedjet Yeah. Ironically, didn't India suffer a terrible famine at the beginning of the last century? She's a silly pajeet!

[@charlotteinnocent8752]

Living in Ireland back at the time of Brexit, I predicted this. I said the UK would arrogantly believe that Ireland would prioritize the UK over the EU, but Ireland, who benefits far more from the EU, would prioritize the EU. This is all down to Tory arrogance and stupidity for the UK, and Ireland just wanted things to carry on as before and refused to be too damaged by the UK's stupid decision.

[@taintabird23]

For me in Ireland, what shocked me, was the level of sheer ignorance about the Irish economy and Ireland's world view among the loudest voices promoting Brexit. Most of their information was 50 years out of date and they were genuinely puzzled by Ireland's attitude. They really assumed that a vote in the UK would trigger Ireland leaving the EU also, because we joined at the same time in 1973.

[@gloin10]

@@taintabird23 To be fair to the British, especially the English, their ignorance about the EU is actually surpassed by their ignorance of Ireland. Yes, those among them who actually understand that Ireland left the UK some time ago, and a lot of them still haven't accepted that fact, were at least 40 years out of date when it came to "...the Irish economy and Ireland's world view..." Part of the problem is their rather lazy assumption that because we mostly speak English, we are British/English in all things, and think the same as they do. Mind you, IF the UK's 1975 referendum had gone the other way, we would, almost certainly, have followed them out, because our economy back then was still very underdeveloped, and we were still almost completely dependent on Britain for both exports and imports. Fast forward to today, and our British export dependence is about 7% of total exports, while our import dependence is around 13% and falling.

[@taintabird23]

@@gloin10 I can't disagree with any of that.

[@Videomaster89]

@@taintabird23 Denmark also entered in 1973, I never though as a Yorkshire person Ireland would leave to EU or that it was a good idea that the UK would but I did see it would hit the economy and cause border issues barely mentioned during the campaign.

[@taintabird23]

@@Videomaster89 Me too. The first thing I thought of when I woke up that morning to hear the UK voted to leave was 'what about the border and the peace process'!

[@CrookedSkew]

Delighted to hear the IDA called out here. A great bunch of folks doing tremendous work. The IDA also offer R&D grants starting at about EUR300,000.

[@timperry6948]

Imagine that. A bloc of hundreds of millions has more negotiating power in trade than a nation of tens of millions. Who woulda thunk it?

[@Lawrence4000-s3k]

Why does the UK need the same negotiating power as the EU? Australia, Singapore, etc. lack the mass of the EU and yet are far richer and better societies. It's not as though this much talked about 'heft' has seen European economies powering ahead of anywhere. You just have a lot of growth-sapping regulations. The USSR used to be the 2nd largest economy in the world. Size isn't everything.

[@Lawrence4000-s3k]

@@Buckets1000 That's easy for us to say in the west. Ask the eastern Europeans and they don't want to do anything that would weaken NATO. US disengagement could lead to disaster. Do you really think that Europe would ever act in a united way? I simply don't trust them. 8 EU NATO members still haven't reached their 2% obligations and If they haven't by now then they never will. Poland and the Baltic countries will be treated by an EU defence policy in the same way the Greeks were in the euro system. The thing to do is to increase capacity but also ensure the US is still engaged (i.e. just buy weapons from them and that also sorts out the trade deficit). Whether there's time I don't know. Putin might not stop at Ukraine...

[@Videomaster89]

@@Lawrence4000-s3k Australia is no where near Europe but the UK is and it part of the area called Europe so of course you work with nearby countries trade agreements exist between Canada and USA for example Singapore also has very low taxes on big business and Australia has a higher cost of living than the UK.

[@Lawrence4000-s3k]

@@Videomaster89 Out of interest, would you say that Bulgaria is more alike the UK than Australia? There's nothing to stop the UK looking to trade more outside the EU (as we always did and have had to increasingly since at least 2002 when the trade balance turned so disastrously with the advent of the single market). Australia has a much better standard of living than the UK - hence why almost everyone in the UK would move if we had freedom of movement with them!

[@Loffer898]

I wish us scots could just look at ireland and see how ireland has thrived outside of the uk they are now the 3rd richest country in the world and that and that could be us- Scotland needs independence.

[@martanoconghaile]

The English have nearly sucked all your oil and gas dry.

[@niallsheehan474]

I agree but there is a core of Loyal cannon fodder that cannot be shaken in their loyalty. I think the media also keeps the wool over their eyes.

[@esioanniannaho5939]

Saor Alba!

[@fawltyoldboybasil.2178]

A section of voters in Scotland in the last plebiscite for independence, were fed a steady diet of 'financial fear about their Pensions & the NHS' by the Conservatives.

[@Marcus_Suridius]

We in Ireland hope you do become independent, ah there'll be some parties in both countries the day it happens.

[@Maitch3000]

Congrats, Ireland. You won Brexit!

[@DM-rp9ik]

The things and utter basket case

[@fawltyoldboybasil.2178]

I'm not sure the outcome has ever been viewed as a victory over GB - more a sense of relief that our government was proactive in planning to mitigate against potentially damaging financial & economic factors.

[@GlynBoughton]

The UK paid £350M a year to eu

[@cdrago462]

"congrats Ireland, you won Brexit". There was no 'winning ' in Brexit, for any country (Although, to be fair, from an EU pov, I think most were happy to be rid of the UK, who were always complaining and demanding more). Ireland was simply more prepared to deal with a bad Brexit than the UK. Ireland saw it for what it was, a break from the norm, a tumultuous event that would affect both Ireland and the UK. Ireland planned for an adverse effect while the UK could only see "sunlit uplands" and planned appropriately for those. The Irish government put plans in place for any eventualities that they could forsee, with money set aside for businesses that may have been affected by Brexit. Plans put in place to take on more transport between Ireland and the EU, plans put in place on how to handle trade between Ireland and Northern Ireland and GB. Irish government meetings started early with the EU where Ireland raised their issues and concerns. As for the UK. Well they planned on how to sieve the lots more money the red bus said they'd have. They planned for the billions more money they could put into the NHS and infrastructure projects. They got ready to issue their demands to the EU in the confident belief that the EU must accede to these demands, they were, after all the UK! Small businesses? So what? They were going to be enormously wealthy, the British border in Ireland? That wasn't going to be a problem - future technology after all. New trade deals? No need to plan ahead, countries all over the world would be fleeing from their EU deals to trade with the UK instead. Reality? Well, sadly the UK is living it and there are no sunlit uplands or unicorns dancing across rainbows.

[@DM-rp9ik]

@@GlynBoughton and now they lose billions in trade

[@matthiashehn4410]

Looking forward to a reunited Ireland

[@JeanneOxley-j3z]

I think there are many countries very envious of ireland .

[@SonOfViking]

The first question the Irish asked after the 2016 referendum result's announcement wasn't "What happens next?" (within literally minutes of the announcement a strategy to mobilise fellow EU members into safeguarding Ireland's peace and future had been kicked into action by the government so they knew full well what "happens next"). Instead it was "Have the arrogant and ignorant effers completely forgotten about their binding commitments under the Good Friday Agreement?". It turns out the effers had - almost every single one of them. And, as the next few years were to prove, it seems they'd never really cared much about them in the first place anyway.

[@Nickname-ef9tv]

Neither Ireland nor the UK will immediatly burn from Brexit or the UK renegading the Good Friday Agreement. _But_ it destroyed all safeguards against further troubles. Once things get violent again there won't be a status quo to fall back to.

[@chattyrat3354]

@@Nickname-ef9tv In fact the question asked was 'what happens if the UK leaves the EU and what will we have to do?' That question was first asked in 2014 when the Government of Ireland, on learning that there could be a referendum on the UK leaving the EU, commenced its brexit preparations. It meant that while UK officials in No. 10 were running around like headless chickens on the morning of 24 June 2016, Irish officials in Merrion Street were able to hit the ground running that morning.

[@seanmccann8368]

Brits britting who would have thought it?

[@christopherbrent5168]

What's the "Good Friday Agreement"?

[@SonOfViking]

@@christopherbrent5168 An international treaty.

[@breend6714]

Not always on the best terms.......Could that have something to do with colonisation, economic annihilation, famine, disenfranchisement, coercion and repression? Perhaps a little nod to honest historical fact would be appropriate here!

[@maxharbig1167]

The English are renowned for their selective historical memory regarding their Empire. .

[@hughdoyle7059]

Irish history was not taught in UK, including Northern Ireland schools. Now I wonder why?

[@seanmccann8368]

Honesty and britain in one sentence?

[@peterrankin2985]

So true.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@niallsheehan474]

@@seanmccann8368 Perfidious..... you know the rest

[@shue143]

Brexit was the British gift that kept on giving to Ireland. Long may it go on. Britain committed an act of self harm.

[@donalkinsella4380]

Gave nothing to Ireland. Ireland in ranked third highest educated country among OECD countries. Britain doesn't make the top ten list. All the top US tech and pharmaceutical companies in Ireland were there long before the word Brexit was ever heard.

[@donalkinsella4380]

@@Buckets1000 Barclay's in Ireland since 1970's. Morgan Stanley in Ireland since 2006. Goldman Sachs in Ireland since 2007. Bank of America in Ireland since1968. TD Securities in Ireland since 1996. Please get an education before commenting. Ireland was and is out performing Britain for decades.

[@upthedubs1000]

Well done Ireland. It’s not very often that a British decision benefits Ireland.

[@dooley-ch]

The IDA is Ireland's most deadly economic weapon - Irish people don't realise just how good they are. I've seen them in action a couple of times now and once they set their minds on winning a company to Ireland there is not much other countries can do!

[@sounds.of.stereo]

Please elaborate. What have you seen.

[@Lawrence4000-s3k]

You mean your tax rates, which are basically a fraud on everyone else.

[@StrayCatInTheStreets]

​@@sounds.of.stereo cocaine and hookers 😂

[@roryoneill9444]

@@sounds.of.stereo The IDA, hired Bono from the Irish band U2 to get Google to move to Ireland for example.

[@anthonydowling3356]

@@roryoneill9444 Hiring Bono ? FFS .

[@deannilvalli6579]

I recall that so many people, experts and non-experts alike, feared that IReland would be hurt more than any other country. And British politicians publicly urged Ireland to join the UK and leave the EU. Most seemed to think Ireland HAD to join the UK- there are stil many who are unaware that Ireland does not belong to Britain. Instead, Ireland profited greatly.

[@beltrofix7667]

Anyone who thought that Ireland would consider even for a second joining the UK knows absolutely zero about Irish history.

[@gloin10]

There was more likelihood of Hell freezing over than there was of Ireland copying the UK’s Brixit idiocy! Our EEC/EC/EU membership has been the single most important factor in the utterly amazing transformation of Ireland’s society, culture, economy and material well-being. Ireland will be the LAST country to even think about leaving the EU.

[@brunsheimmasterbaitwilfrie2811]

You completly forgot about the cherry on top of the cake: back in the days UK gov pressed hard for EU ligislation to force certain foreign companies having to have some HQ inside EU, expecting with reason, that escpecially US companies were likely to put up their tents in UK. Because of language and cultural similarities, paying taxes and hiring additional services there. Now UK left EU, but this legislation is of course still in place, forcing these companies to move HQ again. Brexit actually caused a lot of these movements and UK was much responsible for the reasons why they happened. You could'nt make it up.

[@ibramgaunt4548]

And also Irish people are warmer than brits....

[@t4s_99xbm]

Not me. My boiler broke and I'm feckin freezing right now.

[@patrickquinlan3056]

Yes, we generally have bigger hearts.

[@HappyHopefullTree]

More culturally rich too

[@Gghjfyhvfghh]

The Irish #1 🍺🍺🇨🇦🇮🇪

[@anthonydowling3356]

I ( Irish man ) am generally unfriendly ,and hate small talk .You can not generalize

[@donalkinsella4380]

Ireland was thriving before Brexit. Ireland wasn't waiting for a Brexit to pursue and seize opportunities. The state is constantly seeking new opportunities. Britain would have lost out regardless of Brexit. Ireland is ranked third highest educated country among OECD countries. Britain doesn't even make the top ten list. Enough said.

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

*Thriving

[@donalkinsella4380]

@TheLastAngryMan01 Predictive text, it knows me too well. Thank You

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

@@donalkinsella4380 It’s a bugger, isn’t it? 😂

[@johnfinbarr1160]

Britain’s dilemma is existential and constitutional. The tentacles of its powerful empire and superior mentality are so entrenched in its image of itself that it struggles and panics to find a place for itself post empire and after the economic competition has not only caught up but supersedes Britain in so many ways. I’d say with Brexit, it thought it was about to launch a new Industrial revolution effect on the world, only to discover that the world is already ahead on so many measures of economic excellence than Britain. It’s now remembering why it joined the EU in the first instance to open tariff free trading of its goods and expand trade, given that no new trade agreement of any significance has emerged between Britain and regions/countries outside the EU. Britain seems to have run out of cards to play and with its economy not generating enough income to pay its bills, may be looking a downward spiral with the price of its current outstanding debt being high at the moment and may go higher in the near future with the bond market starting to turn against it. There’s 2 choices, either vote Farage in as prime minister and behave economically like Trump’s America (basically, go back to the past) or vote to go back into the EU and start to modernise its image of itself. Further, I do believe that constitutionally Britain should get rid of the monarchy which only copper fastens an antiquated class system. The citizen should be put at the heart of the new constitution and an English republic declared. Multi seat proportional representation should replace the first past the post electoral system. The House of Lords should be abolished and a partiality elected upper parliamentary house brought in. England should then devolve in several regional parliaments like most European countries. Finally, Scotland and Wales should be free to choose their own destinies. It goes without saying that Northern Ireland be united with the Irish Republic. Otherwise, Britain will only get poorer and poorer as it grapples with its identity while surrounding countries get richer e.g. hard to believe that most consensus forecasts for Poland’s gdp per capita will exceed that of Britain’s by 2030. Imagine that! Poland, a country less than 10 years ago which was exporting its workers to the UK, will now be richer than the UK in 5 years time! This is indeed an extraordinary descent for Britain, once a great engine of wealth creation, now unable to find a place for itself in the modern world. Very sad indeed.

[@ch0293]

The poor neglected people thought it was immigration, but the political elites dreamt of glory old days, don't blame everyone

[@fawltyoldboybasil.2178]

As an Irishman who emigrated to the USA in the 1980s, I was utterly bewildered by the British Government (the Conservative Party to be accurate) decision to push an agenda to leave the EU when it first emerged. I know that this has been a long time goal of the Tories (first debated during the Thatcher era) but back in 2010, it seemed an illogical economic path to pursue even then. Hindsight and all that put to one side today, the ideology of/promoting of/planning for/outcome of Brexit was/is an unmitigated disaster for Great Britain and the people. As I avidly follow the day-to-day of politics and events in my homeland and GB, I remember the level of anxiety and uncertainty rising in Ireland as the 2016 plebiscite drew closer - people were worried about the impact to our economy as our biggest trading partner (GB) upped stakes and withdrew from the EU. A number of conservative media publications/platforms speculated that the RoI would have no choice but to follow Great Britain out the Exit Door once Brexit was fait accompli. What still bewilders me is the refusal of a large section of the voting public (who voted for Brexit) to acknowledge that (a) Brexit is a disaster on multiple levels, (b) that the Conservatives completely mismanaged their handling of the post-Brexit trade issues and, (c) that they the voters were lied to by the politicians & public figures who promoted this insanity from the start. 15 Years of Conservative Party Rule (with the aid of their Mega-Wealthy Supporters) have bankrupted the nation, leaving a generation of voters who have been 'brain-washed' to believe that British Sovereignty was being destroyed by the Bureaucrats in Brussels & the 'Hordes of Illegal Immigrants' invading the island. How similar is that pov to the MAGA creed here in the USA - the Rupert Murdoch propaganda-cancer of 'Make America Great Again' & the 'Invasion of Millions of Illegals-Criminals over the Mexico-USA border'.

[@Lawrence4000-s3k]

@@fawltyoldboybasil.2178 You must be even more bewildered when you see the economic numbers and they show that Brexit has had practically no effect at all. Then again, I remember commentators were saying back in 2008 that Ireland was bankrupt for a generation and Iceland for a millennium. Both surpassed UK gdp per capita by 2016. Can you pleas provide evidence for your assertion that Brexit has been 'a disaster on multiple levels'? Please try to use actual figures and not counter-factuals.

[@kathyschreiber9947]

@@fawltyoldboybasil.2178 Nailed it.

[@paulbrandon422]

@@Lawrence4000-s3k Here’s a fact for you....take out London and the south-east and the UK is one of the poorest regions in Europe, worse off than the poorest US state of Mississippi. And the decline continues. Brexit and incompetent economic management by a succession of Tory governments since the GFC in 2007-08 have greatly accelerated it.

[@Loffer898]

So Brexiters basically voted to make the uk poorer & ireland richer(Geneius)

[@Robbikelly]

One could conceivably call this reparations 😅

[@toekneekerching9543]

@@Robbikelly Is Ireland richer though? most of this money doesnt stay in Ireland and companies like Amazon flat out refuse to pay tax there with no punishment coming from Ireland.

[@Robbikelly]

@@toekneekerching9543 Than Britain, I don't really care. Compare us to 30 years ago. It's a different world. We have many problems, some of them are self caused, but generally speaking I would pick our direction over the UKs any day of the week. That's not me saying we're great and don't need to change in certain directions, but generally speaking we're not doomed. Also not me in favour of the US takeover, but our policies have changed drastically over the past few years to diversify, to other countries.

[@toekneekerching9543]

@@Robbikelly personally i dont like either the EU or the US, they are both corrupt in different ways, the EU is no where near as bad but that doesnt make them good, i voted Brexit myself because i thought the EU need reform and it never would, i really dislike the political side of the EU but what i really hate is the idea that we should suck up to the US instead. As far as i was concerned we were supposed to partner with emerging markets and countries like Canada and Australia but that never happened , it seems no one bothered to make new trade deals. Its been 10 years since the vote and still nothing has happened and the brexiteer politicians just pretend they won Brexit and promote sucking up to the US, this is not what i voted for , over the past few months i have considered if it was a mistake but then the smug comments from Eu leaders like Macron get my back up all over again, Britain is in a bad place , we can argue if it was good or bad but at the end of the day our politicians are completely incompetent and would probably have made a mess no matter how the vote went. UK politicians seem obsessed with selling off our national assets, i cant believe they sold Rolls Royce and allowed the sale of Cadbury , its a joke, they allowed national symbols to be sold ,they sold the steel industry to India and allowed them to asset strip the place, even the military is a joke, we own BAE and yet we gave billions to an American company to design a new IFV which has been an over priced disaster. everyone in Europe is buying BAE and we are buying US junk.

[@Robbikelly]

@@toekneekerching9543 Gotta start off by saying I agree with everything you said in your comment. I used to hold a very similar opinion to you and mostly still do. But honestly, the last year in a weird way has been encouraging. There has seemed to be an awakening among a lot of people. I'm starting to believe a reformed EU could be a realistic goal. Britain needs to be a part of that. Both for us and you. I honestly don't like a lot of the posturing and jabs either, but what I do like is the voice other countries are gaining. An EU not dominated by a couple countries could actually be a wild success for all of us. Very much a fan of the expanding that also though. At the moment pretty much everywhere barring the US. That's the main PO problem I'm seeing for the foreseeable future. Regardless of any differences, I hope you're safe and well my friend. These differences mean very little and I fear we're entering more weary times, good people regardless of where they come from should stand together.

[@thomasdelany2034]

It's Derry, we don't need reference to the old decomposing empire's capital.

[@Marcus_Suridius]

Yep, it was the only negative I had of a very good video.

[@deise69]

@@Marcus_Suridius Apart from, the ROI is a soccer team, the country is called Ireland and NI is a part of Ulster, it is not Ulster.

[@AnkhaLover333]

It's the same name, but Londonderry is just the older name, that's all

[@ranica47]

​@AnkhaLover333Confidently wrong again. Even the quickest search would show the added name was only introduced in the 17th century and Doire or Derry had always existed for centuries.

[@AnkhaLover333]

Whatfuckingever

[@TomChambers-dz7cy]

And Scotland was taken out of the EU against its wishes

[@Icebartelby]

The people of the UK are very generous giving up all those benefits and rights to make Ireland thrive what a great and kind nation of people those Brexit voters were sacrificing their and their children's future to look after the Irish.

[@gloin10]

Now now, behave. You know that’s it’s NOT nice to mock the afflicted!

[@helenaville5939]

😂😂😂

[@johnny88j9]

Brexit was always about English nationalism, it is why it did not win in NI or Scotland.

[@Irishman0855]

💯

[@emmetoriordan6709]

Everyone in Ireland thought that Brexit would severely hurt our economy and our prosperity. And it did for a while.. but it wasn't as bad as we feared. We were dependent on Britain for so many things, because European services always routed via the UK, British and international products also routed completely through the UK. And since UK companies bought up all our "high streets" in the 1990s, all our M&S salads were made over in England... but that's changed now. So we got more investment from the UK itself... Ultimately though, it made Amazon put distribution centers on the island, the ferries re-routed, the airlines created more direct flights and so on. It could have gone very wrong - because it put the possibility of the northern conflict happening again as NI voted against Brexit, and the UK tried to implement the sea border and so on. Either way, airport traffic got bigger and more flights to America. And for American companies - we are 1 hour closer to America than people in Britain, and the traffic is better, plus we have US immigration in Dublin airport, so there's less of a delay when you are travelling to America also... this causes a lot of business people from London and Manchester to hop on ryanair then fly Dublin to New York, and do the much faster US immigration part in Dublin Airport. So things are a little better nowadays... but it's not Miami.

[@petergibson2318]

Now that the “troubles” are over and the economy is doing well another benefit has emerged. The “Global Peace Index” has ranked Ireland the 2nd “most peaceful” country in the world. Only Iceland ranks better at No.1 (as always!) and Denmark is in 3rd place.

[@HenriBourkel]

It turns out Brexit was a brilliant idea....for the European Union ! 😊

[@Lawrence4000-s3k]

@@Buckets1000 You can do better than that. Please explain how you have arrived at that statement?

[@markhodge3112]

@@Lawrence4000-s3kthe hapless deal the UK negotiated is great for the EU manufacturing countries the goods they produce can be sold into the UK tariff free unfortunately the UK is no longer is a manufacturing economy it’s a service and financial services in particular based economy and the EU didn’t give the UK a deal covering finance so the EU are winners in the deal .

[@Lawrence4000-s3k]

@@markhodge3112 That's very true and we should revisit that at some point. Fortunately we haven't applied tariffs against Chinese vehicles so that's a start and the consumer will see cheaper cars in the UK as a result. I imagine in time the idea is to strike many , many more free-trade deals and then the EU trade deficit might start to become more balanced. It's always difficult because of vested interests such as farming. You're right about the UK being a services economy and that's the reason why the single market was much less important to us and so it made little sense to see the entire economy regulated in a way to serve the interests of others. I don't think the EU has won at anything in the last 20 years, tbh. Estranging one of your main security partners while having Putin at the border is a strange one. Not as strange as making yourself energy dependent on Russian energy, paying Putin hundreds of billions of euros with which to build his army, and at the same time promising and then failing to increase defence spending to such an extent the US has threatened to withdraw from NATO. We really deserve better than the clowns in charge at the moment.

[@Terry-uo8gs]

Eire, education system is second to none. A highly educated population.

[@smiley9872]

As are the Catholic population in Northern Ireland.

[@senzen2692]

It's extremely silly to put Starmer's face when the ones it stings are Boris, Fromage and the rest of the brexiteer freaks.

[@geraldneary]

Your projecting.

[@supereliptic]

@@geraldnearyhe’s no. Brexit was a project of Farage and propped up by Johnson. This shit isn’t on Starmer.

[@JanAndersen-dg4mh]

I feel sorry for the Scottish people who voted REMAIN

[@stevehart3472]

@JanAndersen-dg4mh Scots got suckered again by the English. Total bait and switch on the referendum. You know what truly defines a sucker? Accepting the switch.

[@Driver2616]

The “Irish Question” or the “Irish Problem” really are a British Question and a British Problem…..

[@henrybrennan6738]

Thank you Brexit! Love from Ireland.

[@garyb5998]

Part of the Nation gained independence. 6 counties continued to be occupied by the English. The partition of Ireland was forcibly imposed on Ireland Loyd George through threats of total war .

[@hector7187]

People in the north are happy to be British . U can be happy to be European.

[@christinequinn5355]

@@hector7187 "Some people......". Let's keep it real.

[@geordiewishart1683]

Northern Ireland is occupied by the Northern Irish. Very few English here. And the partition was agreed by the Irish government of the time. Facts are facts. Salty republican lies are rather sad and pathetic.

[@DesInDublin]

From Ireland I say - Britain remains a huge economy with high urbanisation and population of human and cultural brilliance. It is advanced in every way except perhaps its political system. It is the oldest parliamentary democracy, however it might be reasonably said “showing its age”. As Ireland moved from the initial violent break from the UK in 1921, it transitioned to effectively a ‘semi free’ dominion of Britain. The Irish government decided to ‘effect’ an independence by examining and upgrading the British system with a written constitution and a new voting system of Proportional Representation by Single Transferable Vote (invented by an Englishman). This led to a sort of 21st century re-engineering of the Westminster system. Largely the work of a small number of exceptional civil servants and in fairness the revolutionary leader Eamonn DeValera who insisted that the Jewish faith would be given equal protection to Christianity in this 1937 constitution. The first time Judaism had been given constitutional protection by public referendum anywhere. The Holocaust was to follow. The constitution also separated and protected the independence of the powers of the state between the parliament, the judiciary and the presidency (monarchy). All carefully written to merge perfectly a new upgrade to the British system. In plain truth, had the British spent less time sneering and belittling the Irish, they might have copied the reforms. If this had had happened I am confident in saying 100% Brexit would never have happened.

[@markeightfourone8693]

😆 'less time sneering' very true. I like the Brits but they seem to have a streak of gloom running through them and now seem to have it on a national level - it's a shithole over there at this stage. They need some positivity and none of their main parties seem to have any

[@gloin10]

The Single Transferable Vote/Proportional Representation(STV/PR) was in place in Ireland from 1922, as was universal suffrage without property requirements for all over-21s. Dev’s Fianna Fáil party tried, TWICE, to amend the 1937 Constitution of Ireland and bring in the UK’s First Past The Post(FPTP) voting system. Dev was many things, but an angel he most definitely was not

[@DesInDublin]

@@gloin10 I agree no angel - yes you are correct in 1921 as the south of Ireland was granted something like the present day Scottish parliament, the London government insisted on PR stv … actually it was first tried out in 1919 in Sligo corporation. But I guess i mean that these changes were put into a written constitution in 1937. The reason DeValera could not change and disregard PR is that it had to pass a referendum to achieve change. The government, even the parliament, does not have the power to make constitutional changes. They must consult the public in a referendum.

[@gudlisner501]

It’s a border problem created by the British. It’s not the creation of the Irish Not now not ever.

[@gloin10]

The Irish border is the beach

[@Irishman0855]

Well said there is no Irish border just a British border in Ireland unfortunately

[@PaulJohnston-n5w]

@@gudlisner501 it’s a nonsense that the British wanted partition. Two groups of Irish men raised militias/ Defence forces and were heading towards a possible clash before WW1. The result would have been very bloody and the outcome far from certain for the Southerners. As for post war - since a civil war ensued among Republicans we can assume that any fight with Northern Unionists would have been equally if not more bloody. Furthermore - massacres of Protestants in the South such as Dunmanway reiterated to Unionists why this was not a State in which they wanted to be included.

[@denniskrust2137]

Brexit was a partial repayment to Ireland for Cromwell.

[@Lawrence4000-s3k]

@@Buckets1000 The Scottish settled in Northern Ireland in the 1600s. How long do they have to be there before you allow them any rights?

[@Lawrence4000-s3k]

@@Buckets1000 So a person doesn't become 'indigenous' for at least 400 years? You do realise that's pretty much everyone in North America, Australia, South America, etc. No doubt you would like to see the Northern Irish deported or at the least you don't recognise their right of self-determination? I can see now why de Valera sent the note of condolence to the German embassy in 1945!

[@Lawrence4000-s3k]

@@Buckets1000 So you agree they have the right of self-determination. They voted on it in the 1973 where an absolute majority of the electorate rejected unification. The IRA continued to murder people.

[@Irishman0855]

@@Lawrence4000-s3k they have rights what do you mean? They don’t have the right to steal our country if that’s what you mean by ‘rights’

[@Lawrence4000-s3k]

@@Irishman0855 Well, by rights I mean after 400 years I think most people would say the people have the right to determine their own future. They are clearly a distinct community. By the logic you seem to be advancing, the Americans, Australians, most South Americans, etc. should have no rights either. The likes of present day Jamaicans would have to go as well. Thinking about it, the native Americans undoubtably murdered the original inhabitants so this could get very messy. What is the claim the Irish have to the whole of Ireland, btw? Was it ever a united country or more a hodge-podge of disunited groups?

[@gordondavies7773]

Brexit has greatly benefitted young Irish graduates for 2 reasons: - Irsish students do not graduate encumbered by large debt - because of the Common Travel Area they are the only foreign workers who do not have to apply for visas or residency. In other words, they benefit from publically funded 3rd level education and freedomvof movement!

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

Europe will be in no hurry to let the English and their two little colonies back in. Charles de Gaulle had it right.

[@Robbikelly]

Love to take them all back in but as independent countries.

[@jcronin3155]

In Ireland, you can work all day and work all night, but you'll still sleep on the street.

[@ciaranjsmith]

It's Derry not London derry

[@Irishman0855]

There’s no London in Derry mate

[@claretblue2509]

It's just a name bro, not that deep.

[@Irishman0855]

@ it really is if you knew the ramifications

[@PaulJohnston-n5w]

@@Irishman0855 there clearly is a London in derry . And if you had the basic knowledge or courtesy you would know that there are plenty of Derrys with different prefixes. It means “ Oak Grove “ and since the one on the Foyle River was one of many it has to be distinguished from , for example, Edenderry or many others. It really is pathetic that people drop the London ( in fact a Roman name) because they feel it emphasises the link to the rest of the UK. Even independent countries that are confident in their own ability don’t change everything on Independence - eg New York. Sydney etc. I am more than aware of the ramifications and still find it pathetic that people feel the need to incorrectly “correct” people instead of letting people call it either of the names according to their cultural heritage. It doesn’t say much about respect for each other’s identity that is often vaunted by Republicans but only seems to cut one way. I think the GFA talks of “mutual respect” I think one of the poets said that while some say Londonderry and others say Derry both are happy to be called “ Derrymen”. Londonderry remains a great place and of course the second City of Northern Ireland.

[@Irishman0855]

@@PaulJohnston-n5w yapachino mate🥱 Free Derry always🇮🇪

[@PaulJohnston-n5w]

@@Irishman0855 Ahh! The Intellectual and reasoned response ???????? Well I’m sure that the people of Londonderry won’t waste too much of their time mulling such a scholarly contribution.

[@MeinenNamenSagIchNicht]

One more Benefit for Ireland is: the Language. In Ireland they speak English as well. That makes relocating from UK way easier, because they don't have to learn a new language.

[@johndevoy5792]

From an Irish perspective, it NEVER was 'the Irish question' it was always 'the British question.' For generations, but more particularly since 1979 - and the 'troubles' in the 6 counties - Irish ministers, diplomats , ambassadors, and ordinary citizens were constantly having to explain British history (vis-a-vis Ireland) to the British!! Even today, its pretty shocking, no, its embarrssing, how little they know about Ireland, and that is a unique state of affairs for almost any neighbouring country anywhere in the world. The UK, under the Conservatives, were so far behind the curve re, the so-called 'border' in the north, that the Irish Govt and the 'proverbial' dogs in the street knew what the central issue would be...the border!! That's why 6 months BEFORE the Brexit Ref. the Irish Govt AND the Opposition told EVERY Irish ambassador, diplomat, politician, to inform every capital in Europe and Washington, of what this 'central' issue would be. Meanwhile the Conservatives either hadn't a clue or PRESUMED (not understanding Ireland and its sizeable and diverse global economy) that Ireland would HAVE to leave with the UK. Which was never going to happen. Stupidty of the highest order!! Your statement '...look at the map...see how (EU) members are 'leveraging the Irish ports to bypass Britain' Mon Dieu!! Geez...as if Ireland had nothing to do with this !!!!! Its the other way around, its Irish business leveraging Irish ports to bypass Britain. But, and once again, this comes down to a very 'English' -Anglo centric mentality re. Ireland. The UK but esp. England, has both historically and right up to recent times, Brexit being the latest proof) has simply never understood its nearest neighbour. PS. it's not Londonderry, no one but unionists calls it that. The city in Irish is Doire, anglicised to Derry. PPS Ireland does NOT share a land border with the EU. It shares a land border with the UK, ie the 6 counties. re cultural similarities....oooh!!! every Brit I've ever met says much the same, they were not expecting so many differences living in Ireland.

[@Lawrence4000-s3k]

I think the real reason for everything is that Ireland simply doesn't figure in Britain very much nowadays. The Irish used to be one of the largest immigrant groups but there's been such huge immigration in the past 20 years that it's now a relatively small group and others have far greater infuence

[@cdrago462]

​​@@Lawrence4000-s3kin fact, per capita, there are more Brits moving to Ireland than Irish moving to Britain these days 16:08 .

[@Alvar2001]

Sobre las similaridades culturales entre irlandeses e ingleses, como español tengo que decir que son innegables, hay bastantes matices diferentes, sí, pero negar que las compañías estadounidenses se establecen en Irlanda por el idioma común es intentar tapar el sol con un dedo. El inglés es la lengua dominante entre el 95% de los irlandeses, es la lengua en la que piensan y sueñan.

[@Lawrence4000-s3k]

@@Alvar2001 Sorry, I don't speak Spanish and I don't know if this translates well but I do like the phrase, 'trying to cover the sun with a finger' 😃 In England we wouldn't use the phrase because we rarely get to see the sun!

[@johndevoy5792]

@@Alvar2001well, I guess...as you say, as a Spaniard, you will see things, dare I say, superficially but trust a veteran local, who btw, is married to a wonderful English lady and knows many great English people...there are deep societal/cultural/political/world-view/ linguistic...not to mention, historical , differences between Irish and British. It certainly is nothing like Catalan to Andalusians differences...they are all Spanish after all!! Irish people are quite different from their neighbours in a much more profound way than let's say Canadians from citizens of the United States or Ozzies from Kiwi's!! To an outsider, the shared language masks so much of this, but ask any English person who comes to live in Ireland and they will tell you. As to language and US corporations being in Ireland, trust me, that has little bearing on this topic. Language?? Ask a French speaking Belgian is he/she similar to a French!!!

[@ricknoisable]

In other words, they simply gave their riches for free to Ireland and some extremely arrogant people still think brexit was the best idea

[@anonitachi6966]

Ireland: Republic of Ireland & the occupied North

[@claretblue2509]

@@Buckets1000 Why do we call them "ulster Scots"

[@claretblue2509]

@ The Plantation of Ulster in the early 1600s saw 60-70% of settlers being Scottish, mainly Presbyterians, with the rest being English and displaced Irish. The Scots played a major role in shaping Ulster's culture and religion.

[@claretblue2509]

@ So calling them "English plantations" would be a bit misleading then? since the majority are not English. Maybe British would be a better word.

[@Mario-xr3jo]

Graphics and photography in this series are amazing.

[@Fern9892]

Yeah, some great graphics especially pie charts and bar graph animation, loved the Intro animation, Editor done a great job , great stuff economy talk keep up with quality like this🎉

[@funkduck210]

Still cant believe something as monumental as brexit was accepted with only a 2% lead.

[@dodonovan32]

I would also have thought that Ireland now being the only english speaking country in the EU would have been a significant advantage in attracting North American investment.

[@skyplug1]

Brexit was perfect ...100 years after the 1916 rising , we at last got some recompense from decolonialisation

[@bikeman9899]

The speaker missed one of the most important advantages of moving to Ireland. The English language. Proximity, taxes, CTA, all matter too, but language is a big factor. If UK voters in 2016, had listened to the warnings, and understood that some many businesses would up sticks and leave, they wouldn't have voted to leave, IMO. The damage from Brexit is long team to the UK. I'm sure they will figure a solution, but it's going to take decades.

[@minhduong1484]

Yes and no. While English is not the predominant language in Europe, many people in Germany, France, and the Netherlands speak English especially in the major cities. In Ireland, it might be hard to understand some local accents (from experience). There were a few times where I thought, "I know they are speaking English but I can't understand what they are saying."

[@bikeman9899]

@minhduong1484 Well, yes, it's a combination of things. Regional accents are certainly tough to understand. But MNCs are hiring grads and professionals so accents tend to be clearer. Regional accents are a factor in England and Scotland too . I've had difficulty understanding ppl from Yorkshire at first. It wasn't the speed as much as the non use of the definite article. Glaswegian, is a whole different game. At speed, I'd miss maybe 40%. For a non native speaker, quite the challenge I expect. I don't see Brexit being undone anytime soon. Even now, when the evidence is clear what a screw up it was, only 60% or so think the UK should rejoin. Something like 35% still think it's was a wise move. This shows the persuasive power of the tabloids. They haven't let up their anti EU venom, and their readers are as poorly informed, as ever.

[@trident6547]

@@bikeman9899 The fact is that brexit cannot be undone. Article 49 of the Treaty of EU says any European state may apply for membership if it respects the democratic values of the EU and is committed to promoting them. By repeating "undoing brexit" the people of UK, who are still extremely uneducated of what EU is, how it works and how to join in 2025 happens, believe that UK will go back to what it had. That will never happen. UK has to apply after complying with the Copenhagen criteria. Negotiations take place in intergovernmental conferences between member states and the candidate country. They relate to the conditions under which the country will be admitted to the EU and focus on the adoption and implementation of the EU's body of law (the acquis*). The acquis is divided into a number of chapters*, each covering a specific policy area. Negotiations help candidate countries to prepare to fulfil the obligations of EU membership. They also allow the EU to prepare itself for enlargement in terms of integration capacity. The results of the negotiations are incorporated into a draft accession treaty, once the negotiations on all chapters have been closed. For more details, see the following sections on our website. A candidate country is obliged to join the Eurozone as soon as convergence criteria are met and join Schengen. But since UK is very far from even complying with the criteria needed it will be a question for future generations to apply for membership if all the changes have been made.

[@bikeman9899]

@trident6547 Agreed

[@Lawrence4000-s3k]

We did listen to the warnings, and they were almost all flat out wrong. I can't think of much the Remain camp said that actually happened. I only wish house prices had collapsed, tbh! No mass unemployment, no recession, etc. They were right about wages increasing, though!

[@Qulize]

Brits and American fighting for that number 1 spot on who's the most gullible people lol

[@redbagsrambler9326]

I’m an American. Less than a week of the second Trump administration has proven we’re pretty much the winner of the most gullible award. England And their Wales puppet state are a very close second, though. We must remember Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain, so they’re also victims of this idiocy.

[@malahammer]

maga = brexiteer = unionist

[@patrickquinlan3056]

Right now, the Americans are in the lead.

[@Lawrence4000-s3k]

@@patrickquinlan3056 We shall see how that one works out. I'll wager that the US economy continues to grow much faster than the EU in the next decade. They made nearly 30% rea growth in the last 15 years compared to the EU and I can;t see any sign that will stop.

[@redbagsrambler9326]

Oh, come on. Not even close. I'm American and we're clearly winning that title by a wide margin. Even clueless, easily manipulated Brits can't screw things up more than we can.

[@genghisthegreat2034]

Deeper penetration of 3rd level education, better schooling, deeper integration of Biopharma and IT companies and their trusted supply chain. In short, if you secure a high paying job in Ireland, the chances are good that your partner will too. Better social capital, better ability to make JVs with European partners work. Cultural history of flexibility, on relocation, on adaptation.

[@magmilion4175]

in the end NI is part of the European Union

[@AntiDumb2023]

NI has the best of both. The unionists refuse to take advantage of it and continue to push for UK only trade.

[@liamlynch9359]

Northern Ireland should have been the big winner, the EU offered to during the early Brexit negotiations making Northern Ireland a "special economic zone" or granting it a unique status that would have allowed Northern Ireland to remain closely aligned with the EU's Single Market and Customs Union, ensuring seamless cross-border trade between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and in turn the EU. The customs checks thst exist today between NI and the internal UK market as part of the protocol wasnt something the EU were seeking, that whats special economic zone meant. The economic potential was off the charts as the EU was offering Northern Ireland privileged access to both the EU and UK markets.This arrangement could have attracted massive FDI investment, as businesses would benefit from Northern Ireland being a gateway to both the UK and EU markets, In Brussels there was by all accounts disbelief when the DUP blocked it and some empathy for the Irish snd British governments for having to deal with those headbangers

[@ashish282]

Surprisingly no one is talking about Luxembourg, silently enjoying all the benefits

[@michaelareay1037]

"Having one's cake and eating it". The Brexit lie in a few words.

[@petropavlovskkamchatskiy1917]

So many problems with this video. There are no such places as "the 'british' isles" or "london'Derry'.

[@buyndplay144]

The name london derry is an ick

[@jmo8934]

The UK have made some disastrous decisions over the past number of years to the point now where I wouldn’t be surprised if an IMF bailout is on the cards in the not too distant future which is an amazing turnaround from about 15 years ago where Ireland were in receipt of IMF loans (though the UK did also receive IMF loans in the 1970s also). Make enough bad decisions one after another each compounding the next and things can unravel at first slowly then quickly. Firms did relocate to Ireland after Brexit etc. but there are no winners from it. I can tell you that everyone in Ireland would have much preferred that Brexit had never happened. It was crazy but then there were characters like Bojo and Liz Truss as PM and ministers like Nadine Dorries, Gavin Williamson, Raab, Patel, Braverman the list goes on. They were just idiots and it will have an effect on even a country as established as Britain eventually.

[@Whightwabbit]

by 5.17 I've heard 2 wrong names used in this video, there was an armed struggle in northern Ireland and part of the UK has 6 counties of Ireland. Ulster as claimed in video has 9 counties of Ireland that is the partition of my country. Then later in the video not as bad but the correction is still needed. Londonderry is the UK name for the Irish city of Derry and to be PC about the affair here we normally call it Derry/Londonderry. Just for future :) and you're welcome

[@petergibson2318]

The BBC call it Londondreee.

[@RayDaly-sm9wv]

@Whightwabbit That's true...but does anyone else care enough about this to post a 100 word rebuttal of it?

[@Polfeck21]

@@RayDaly-sm9wvfacts are important

[@cdrago462]

​@@RayDaly-sm9wvyes, some people do, obviously because many have made the same comment.

[@pkpjjoyce6168]

A United Ireland just around the corner 😂.....with gratitude to Boris, Nigel et al......32 ☘️🇮🇪

[@Earth-v9d]

Northern Ireland Mast Det United With Southern Ireland 🇮🇪 The Brexit Was A Shitt Von Uk

[@brendandonnelly-yp3zg]

You have conveniently omitted the Irish troubles conflict between war of Independence that ended in 1922 and the Belfast Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Those brutal years had a profound impact on British Irish Relationships and should be considered when discussing how Ireland has surprisingly rebounded to Brexit Vs Britain's position.

[@geraldgallagher7243]

Just to correct you,Ulster is not just the 6 Counties. County Donegal, is also part of Ulster, though thank God remaines in the Republic of Ireland🇮🇪

[@stevefurlong79]

Monaghan and Cavan are in Ulster too.

[@geraldgallagher7243]

@stevefurlong79 I was only mentioning where I live, I wasn't excluding Monaghan and Cavan. A pity we didn't get to keep Derry though.

[@BillMcConnell-u3z]

You forgot to mention English-speaking, well-educated population.

[@joeoconnor5400]

Read James O'Brien's Broken Britain.

[@trident6547]

Isn´t it "How they broke Britain"? I bought that book on Gatwick airport.

[@shamrockgeek]

Ireland needs to get rid of the fast food, pharmaceutical companies, and media centers if they want to grow. The fastfood and pharmaceutical companies go hand in hand. Imagine a very subtle "famine". Get rid of healthy food and habits in exchange for poisonous meds. Media companies are full of radiation, so that's horrible. Regain original Irish farming practices and take care of Irish people ✌🏻❤️ Those companies don't care about Irish people, regardless of their selling points.

[@taintabird23]

Ah the good old days of poverty. I miss them too.

[@shamrockgeek]

@taintabird23 Ireland is perfectly capable of great things without such things. Sounds like you've been influenced to depend on those that would see you perish without a thought. But you keep following little 🐑. Ireland is on the decline and you're actually defending that. How about you think for a bit🧐

[@taintabird23]

@@shamrockgeek Yes, we saw what Ireland was capable of between 1922 and 1973. It contradicts your assertion.

[@shamrockgeek]

@@taintabird23 Spoken like someone not willing to work for a promising future, but who would let themselves and their country fall away. If so, then step aside and let those that will do the right thing take action , and bury yourself in your defeat, sadly. Take care ✌🏻💚

[@taintabird23]

@@shamrockgeek I was merely confronting you with reality. Having not a single iota of an idea to support your lofty claims, you shoot the messenger. You're an empty suit.

[@richy3084]

Brexit 'Freedom' flags, freedom from intelligence and a prosperous future

[@pauldillon584]

Why the hell are we Irish still paying USC???

[@cdrago462]

Ah, that's only a temporary thing. It'll never last........ Or so they told us over 15 years ago.

[@MurphysisbetterthanGuinness]

It used to be a payment to compensate for the fact we would not pay a water charge. Now it's being used to pay off our debt or so I'm told. Not the best use of taxpayer money but not the worse either. Having debt over 200 billion for a country of our size isn't smart. We might look good when it comes to GDP per capita but if you used GNP per capita which is more accurate then we're not actually better than anyone else in Europe.

[@benettnash]

Brexit definitely solidified for UK loss of a global superpower status. Well deserved, if you ask me.

[@trident6547]

The loss of superpower status was a fact after the Suez canal debacle in 1956.

[@TheBayzent]

They are still influential, but yeah it keeps getting smaller and smaller. And now ypumhave some begging Elon to make the US annex them. I'm Spanish, and the thought of having a former colony dictate my laws repulses me to the core, but it seems we have a little more decorum than the Britons.

[@Lawrence4000-s3k]

@@TheBayzent Whereas you seem happy to have the EU dictate your laws? That's interesting.

[@benettnash]

@ Actually? Yes! We still have a great deal of autonomy. Look, I live in a post-soviet country, where there are still oligarchs and grey power plays behind curtains. If we are checked and guided by some international entity, the corrupt politicians cant afford to go completely astray. And we can have an impact, too, albeit being a small country. If we present competent people with good ideas, we actually managed in several cases to push a good thing through. We have a great deal of experience with censorship, regulation and communism, so we know where it leads to, and it is our moral duty to voice our concerns backed up by our experience, when the political opinion of western countries swings too much to the left for too much subsidies and regulation.

[@cdrago462]

​@@Lawrence4000-s3kridiculous. The EU don't dictate any member states laws but I do understand that is a common little-Englander\brexiteer fallback whine. Member states agree and follow common directives so that, predominantly, trade can be harmonized. No laws forced.

[@nicolassTRAVEL]

Uk is not united anymore

[@davidbyrne9147]

The conflict was not in Ulster, but in Northern Ireland - for the most part.

[@fonziefarrell9656]

Benefit? It's gotten ridiculously expensive and all they say is. 'ah brexit'...

[@thomasduggan8755]

Perfidious Albion 🆘🤑

[@wsldave]

Mary Robinson and McAleese both visited UK as heads of state?

[@EddieMWilken]

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[@EddieMWilken]

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[@Alvin_pson]

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[@brocserrett]

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[@truddy3971]

A housing crisis doesn't sound like winning.

[@roryoneill9444]

I am not sure what you define as the Winner, the Uk has spent the last few years engaging in a Hybrid War against Ireland. However, despite this Ireland has done very well after Brexit, not due to Brexit but despite Brexit, while there has been a slow down in the Irish economy in the latter half of 2023 and the first half of 2024, there was 3.1% growth in the third quarter. As of 2024, Ireland's trade with the UK has nose dived, Irish exports to Britain as dropped by 11% from 2023 and Irish imports from Britain as dropped by 22% from 2023 & but cross border trade on the Island of Ireland have remained the same in both directions. Yes, the video is correct Ireland's financial sector has growth by over 25% in the last few years and it is mostly in Asset Management not banking or stock market sectors. Since 2019, the UK Government funded the sent up of several anti-Irish Government & anti-Ireland parties, these parties have engaged in arson, riots and attacks on elected Members of the Irish Parliament, one of these groups even paraphrased the British Loyalist leader Rev Ian Paisley calling themselves "Coolock Say No" (they even met with members of the UDA, a terrorist organisation the attacked Dublin during the Troubles). In the Summer of 2019, the unelected Prime Minister Boris Johnson stated there should be a border between Ireland and the EU. In May 2021, David Frost, an unelected British Minister, went to the North of Ireland to met with proxy terrorist groups in the Loyalist Community Council, the UDA and the UVF, to encourage terrorism against the North of Ireland and Ireland. In February 2022, the UK's ONS reported that the North of Ireland was the only place outside the money laundering City of London that had recorded economic growth after Brexit, so the UK Government got their patsies, in the DUP, to pull of the Northern Ireland Assembly until the ONS reported that the North of Ireland's economy contracted in 2024. Between November 2023 (the month of the Dublin riot you showed.... do you think that was a coincidence) and July 2024, the Irish Police, An Garda, caught over 7,000 weaponised refugees that had been shipped to the Irish Border and forced to cross (when Russia did this to Finland and Poland, there was outrage from the EU but it seems to be okay when the Uk does it against Ireland). The present UK Government has already reneged on the Winsor Framework within a year of its implementation, after the last Uk Government had reneged on the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland since 2020. Also the present UK Government has pushed ahead with a plan to attack the Northern Ireland tourist sector. The cost of the UK's brexit to Ireland was huge in terms of financial resources and political bandwidth for example the Irish Government held over 400 diplomatic meetings in every European Capital to protect the Peace Process in the North for the 12 months after the Brexit Referendum and Ireland even threatened, the BIG 3, Italy, Germany and France, to derail the Withdrawal negotiations if the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland wasn't in the Legal Framework. There is now an Electricity Interconnector between Ireland and France that cost over a billion Euros and the amount of direct ferries from Ireland to the Continent went from 4 a week in 2019 to 44 direct ferries to the Continent at the beginning of 2021, there is now a direct container route to the USA from a newly development Deep-sea port in Cork. All Irish Government agencies were focused on mitigating the effects of Brexit on Ireland's trade and tourism. All this came at the expense of dealing with the developing housing crisis and health system.....

[@dazzer273]

Well the UK’s biggest export to Ireland now has become economic migrants

[@davidsheeran5144]

Well explained video , well done

[@stevenpeaketrainsandstuff3682]

I am yet to be convinced leaving the EU has been a net positive for the UK. Is anyone willing to provide insight on where the successes lie?

[@Lawrence4000-s3k]

Absolutely. Economic and Financial 1. No Net Payments to the EU (£15 billion net pa) 2. No Contribution to the EU COVID Recovery Fund (would have been 90 billion euros; best 60 billion net) 3. Control of Trade Policy 4. No Tariffs on Chinese Cars (set. £5-8k per car) 5. No Longer Subject to EU Over-Regulation (as Draghi described it’ regulatory overload’) 6. Disapplication of the Posted Workers Directive (a total disgrace) 7. Acts of Parliament Fully Enforceable (no more Merchant Shipping Acts being simply thrown into the bin) 8. British Courts No Longer Subject to EU Law (wow, did we really allow that - that wasn’t foreseen by anyone in 1972) 9. Control of Agriculture (feel free to defend the CAP - you’ll be the first) 10. Banning Live Animal Transport 11. International Fees for EU Students (boosts university finances) 12. Independent Immigration Policy (full points based immigration system) Leaving the EU has had some advantages and few drawbacks, tbh. In economic terms it's hard to see anything.

[@gloin10]

Only another 45 years to wait for those amazing Brixit benefits, eh?

[@Lawrence4000-s3k]

Fundamentally we now have an accountable parliament - if we don't like the laws under which we live then we can change them. Wars have been fought for far less! Having to accept laws from a body containing the likes of Orban, Meloni, AFD, Le Pen, etc. is not acceptable. For specifics, well I don't put too much weight on them but here's a few: £15 billion a year net contribution is not a small amount (the UK had to cut pensioner winter-fuel payments to save £1.3 billion); Bargaining power of labour has increased (wages are rising faster than in the EU; no posted workers directive, etc.); No tariffs on Chinese cars (own trade policy so cars are cheaper); The Common Agriculture Policy has gone (largely environmental vandalism, live animal transports, etc.). I suppose I could list a dozen more in descending order of triviality but the overarching benefit is in having an accountable parliament and the ability to set regulations that suit our needs and not others.

[@steve-4045]

It is no surprise that Ireland would be a major beneficiary of Brexit. In addition to reasons given, it is also an English-speaking country.

[@Polfeck21]

It’s the British problem, not the Irish one

[@BrendanKelly-e5h]

Ireland is divided into 4 provinces. Munster, Connaught, Leinster and Ulster. Northern Ireland is 6 of the counties in the province of Ulster. Cavan, Monaghan and Donegal are in Ulster yet in the Republic of Ireland. The UK held onto the other 6 counties, and thousands of people died as a result. The general expection is that Ireland will be reunified as the UK goes down the economic toilet of brexit

[@TheDaftySage]

You missed the most important aspect. After brexit, Ireland is the only real English speaking country in the union (no, nobody is thinking about locating to Malta).

[@SeverityOne]

Apart from Gemini. 🙂 They are relocating from Ireland to Malta.

[@gloin10]

One swallow does NOT make a summer…

[@SeverityOne]

@@gloin10 It pulls out the rug from underneath 'nobody', though.

[@Muesli711]

@8:58 Some fairly random places being shown on that map!

[@adrianainespena5654]

Eamon de Valera is laughing in his grave.

[@ardakolimsky7107]

"The nation that had once been overshadowed in trade" We exported food to Britain during their famine.

[@GaiaCarney]

Erin go Braugh 🇮🇪