Yes, that’s exactly it. Of course we can manage without and won’t die, but we shouldn’t have to
Too much British stiff upper lip and war time ration book spirit covers up the total incompetency of our government and the disaster the Brexiteers have landed us with
So I say moan away, blame the people responsible and make sure they don’t wriggle out of it
How much should we put up with? Tomatoes today, what next?
Our lives are being diminished, drip, drip, drip and we know whose fault it is
Maree, you sound like a person planning a trip to Europe 
I am seriously considering a career as a Brie and Tomato smuggler. Whereabouts on my person should I hide them? 
But other than that, no, no trips to Europe
I love it here and I’m very patriotic and you don’t ditch your country when it hits a bad patch
So I’ll stay right here trying to help put things right, while never letting the people who caused this bad patch forget that it’s their fault and never trusting or respecting them again 
Just checking Maree, we don’t want this situation becoming Single-Issue do we. 
Yes .
Like Boris Johnson whose father has French citizenship .
So Boris and his numerous offspring can claim it too .
So he won’t be affected .
I’m astonished at the number of people I know who voted Brexit who are now finding European roots and applying for dual nationality so that they can have their brie and eat it too.
Frankly, given how difficult it now is for third country nationals to gain residency in European countries, I’m not surprised people seek the Irish passport route if they can. Unless you are retired with your S1 or are going to start in full time employment in that European country, you effectively need to present a business case of how you will secure sufficient money to live on (and not be a burden to the state). Savings are not usually viewed as sufficient evidence - a way to obtain earnings is needed. Even then you enter the country with a work visa and have to apply for temporary residency when you arrive. This requires significant amount of documentation, interviews, etc. And that is a residency for one year; you need to do the same again the next year. And the next, in total for 5 years. And then you apply for permanent residency. This has doubtless put off many who would have moved to a EU country when the time was right.
If you can gain an Irish passport then you can simply enter the country and live there. Nip down to the shops and buy your brie.
But I fully agree, that if you voted Brexit whilst sure that you could obtain an Irish passport to facilitate this easy immigration then you were knowingly crapping on your fellow would-be migrants whilst smugly certain that you’d be ok. Very nasty behaviour to force so many to suffer the stress, complexity & delays of the TCN process whilst “I’m alright Jack”. Not someone I’d like to know.
(Note - I’m referring to the French process, other EU countries may have slightly different processes.)
Stopping the rats deserting the sinking ship should be a priority. 
You admit it’s sinking then ?
Never not admitted it, it’s been sinking for decades, folks just enjoy attributing different labels to it along the journey.
Hang on! isn’t people leaving a good thing for an Island that the inhabitants claim is over crowded?
it’s the wrong people leaving
The wrong ones? The ones with a bit of “get up and go”?
Those are the ones who good for a country .
Bruce, I think you were part of the problem, not the solution 
it exposes the racism that the EU parliament has against the British if nothing else.
The UK gave around 6 million EU nationals the right to stay when we left the EU. The EU did not replicate the same arrangements which says it all about how nasty, vile and vindictive the unelected elite that rule 27 countries are to those who won’t put up with their authoritarianism and bullying.
Thank God we left.
the ones with money and talent
I think the innate European trait of “xenophobia” is the word you are searching for, natives from the EU and UK are the same race.
Maybe so, but there is different heritage at stake.
I bet that’s what they said in 1067
