Closer ties with Britain offer us a way out of our euro nightmare

Anglophobia fear Angela or fear of England?

“London calling”

It is not going to be pleasant but we need to plan our own future not wait for hangouts which demoralises nations as it does a person on the dole.
My Memories of 1986 and my first trip on the overcrowded boat to Holyhead;

After arriving to Holyhead then trying to find a seat on what seemed to be the most dilapidated train carriage I have ever seen the train to London departed at 3.00am it had no spare seats, no food so the three of us stood for over five hours with luggage bags and our pockets full of Irish fifty pence pieces, it seemed like English were putting on the poorest welcome they could muster up for the thousands of new “Paddy “immigrants.

My girlfriends brother was in toe he used the same suitcase his father had used when he had took the boat in the fifties it had the belt strap his father had used he looked so ridiculous at that time after all this was the 80s and all the cool dudes including myself had haversacks.

The customs and passport control were laughing at him along with the suspicious armed special branch men, he looked like someone from another era, odd they did not search his bag
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I guess they thought no one would use a case like his to carry bomb making equipment I hear this type of case is cool now, maybe he was ahead of his time and the rest of were un cool.
When we arrived in Victoria station five hours later and transferred to the tube my girlfriend’s brother got lost, within just fifteen minutes of arriving in London, later when we finally found him he looked like a lost five year old I have never seen such face before or since, he was so naïve lost in this big metropolis.

He was to be taking to his uncle’s house in Arsenal I was glad that he was not staying with us I had enough to worry about and babysitting a grown man was more than I could handle after all I was in a new world too.
Within two weeks I was in permanent full time employment and was selected for a special training program with full pay the training lasted a year I have never received this kind of in house training in Ireland.

The train may not have been welcoming but London branch of international company that I worked were welcoming friendly enough but of course some of the northern English mentioned the six counties and as you may know most of those in the British army are from northern England.

This was not easy to deal with considering time period and my beliefs but I never felt I was discriminated by the English employer and or the Londoners most of whom involved me in their camaraderie.

I was not treated as second class because of the nature of my work I did not work or hang out in Irish ghettoes and I know that some of those that did never integrated or really got to know the Londoners and I remember well how the Londoners congratulated me because Ireland were on their way the euro finals after beating the English I have never heard Irishman congratulation the English.

So it seems to me linking a new Irish pound with our next door neighbour who has forced their culture on us, some of which we have continued to use ever since, including their, laws, tax systems, ok over the years we may have infiltrated them too and in return 50% our tourist trade is from past Irish migrates travelling back and forth including the likes Louis Walsh Eke!.

Who knows what may happen who knows what going on in the back rooms EU/EZ maybe nothing; The Germans do not appear to want to change their constitution?
The euro may collapse and later it may reappear with the next generation but I think we are better off on our own even if poorer for now at least we should have a plan and may be even saying we are putting in place a plan might help our case should the euro continue (Or it might scare The Germans lol).

We don’t live in the centre of Europe surrounded by hundreds of millions of consuming people so we can never be as competitive as the Germans.

they know this so that is part of the reason they pushing us to be more austere but in doing so the debts we have are unplayable so this means we have to default or the Germans and others will have to write some of them off, as this is not forthcoming and appears less likely at the moment we need to take matters into our own hands.

so it looks like I am going back to boiling the kettle to fill the bath, no central heating, ice on the inside of the windows, the sisters have emptied the cylinder after I tuned in on for myself and the little back boiler will take a hour to heat the water, even then someone will use it.

three kettles of boiled to take water above freezing and I stand naked in the bathtub wash me-self with a wet towel and cup to rinse me ginger bits while standing in the bathtub with a mass of Goosebumps and me particles shrinking into my insides to try and warm themselves.

The door of the bathroom fly’s open with a shriek from me mam-what are doing! — I must remember the latch the next time, I am a adult now it’s Saturday and I am now ready to chase the girls, ,I will shave on Tuesday it’s just too much hassle now, anyway, designer stubble is all the rage-“the cave man look”

With the £1 I had that day I was able to buy 3 pints of Guinness and a bag chips on the way home.
From that low point, the money I earned rose and my spending power rose too right up until time of the euro.
After the euro my earnings slowed but my ability to borrow rose tenfold it was a false.

It was due to a drop in interest rates and later banks changed their lending policies the house I had bought pre euro rose stately but after the euro it continue to add the original price value year after year eventually reaching oven ten times what I paid for it.
Building materials and labour cost had not risen at the same rate as my home something was not right we were not in sync. But the banks were still lending and people were still borrowing which continued to push up prices I was not one of the borrowers as in did not make sense after all I had a home why would I want two homes.

I did not vote for the euro, nor do I want it now but it is going to be really hard to get out but some are now too but harder in the long term to stay in. we simply cannot afford to pay back the banks we should defaulted a long time ago but we are where we need to stop now Germany is not going to pay because they know we are Germany we do not in the centre of millions of consumers everything we produce cost more which means we have to pay ourselves less even if we are more efficient than the Germans.

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet,

The Euro is not going to go