Will Rishi Sunak Do Anything to Improve the Life of British Ex Pats in Spain? - Page 3

Jimh wrote on Wed Sep 7, 2022 10:48am:

Liz Truss made her position on the Northern Ireland Protocol clear during her campaign - she supports ripping up the protocol, jeopardising  the Good Friday Agreement and siding with the DUP line, she also wants Braverman to start the extradition of immigrants to Rwanda (Good that she can ge...

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...t the Daughter of a Nigerian immigrant to do it). She was originally Lib-Dem before she realigned to Conservatives. Remember that she only got in to power with the support of the Hard Brexit Right led by Jacob Rees Mogg who is now Business Secretary, Things are going to get frostier with Truss both with the EU and Republic of Ireland if she sticks to her campaign topics and I think she is too weak to take on Mogg's cronies.

I still remember the embarrassing speech she gave about cheese (True Stateswoman :) )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFNRUuBARM4

She was born in Oxford which is not part of Yorkshire as far as I know 

devo49 wrote on Thu Sep 8, 2022 11:13am:

Bless her , only time will tell . But she definitely is not squeaky clean . She had a two year affair with a former minister which ruined his career but she soldiered on to become PM . She has to have so grit to come thru that . 

Jimh wrote on Thu Sep 8, 2022 4:03pm:

You don't think she might have given the Queen a dose of Novichok when she visited her the other day do you?

Alicia 11 wrote on Thu Sep 8, 2022 4:23pm:

i think the BBC have written her Maj off already just hope that the Gov have a pot of emergency funds for a funeral and a coronation to follow.

DarioMartin wrote on Thu Sep 8, 2022 5:28pm:

Apparently presenters now dressed in black and looking very grave on Sky / BBC?

Plus whole family making there way to, or already at, Balmoral.  Methinks we may be receiving an announcement sometime in the next few hours.

Airtaine wrote on Wed Sep 7, 2022 10:20am:

Isn't it a given that they are both part of England and considered English.

After all, when and Irish citizen, examples here is a selective list of Irish figures claimed as British by media in recent times.

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Saoirse Ronan

Sky News reporter Richard Suchet called Saoirse Ronan “one of our own” when she received a BAFTA nomination for her performance in Brooklyn.

London Film Critics Circle (LFCC) nominated Saorise Ronan for Best British Actress.

Seamus Heaney

Heaney was famously included in The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry. He responded to his “complimentary” inclusion like this:

Be advised my passport's green.

No glass of ours was ever raised to toast the Queen.

Michael Fassbender, Colin Farrell & Brendan Gleeson

The London Film Critics Circle (LFCC) also nominated Fassbender, Farrell and Gleeson in their “British” categories. After the instant protests the LFCC reluctantly relabeled those categories as “British and Irish.”

Emma Donoghue

The novelist and screenplay writer was nominated in the Breakthrough British Filmmaker of the Year category for "Room"

Chris O Dowd

In 2001 during a red-carpet interview for the BIFA Awards, Chris O’Dowd was referred to as a British Actor:

Coming from being a British actor and working on something like Bridesmaids.

Irish actor, yep.

Irish actor, I apologise.

Conor McGregor

During a pre - Aldo fight interview, UFC president Dana White referred to McGregor as being from the UK.

All of Brazil will be watching him defend his title [points to Jose Aldo], all of the UK will be watching (points to Conor McGregor).

Ireland will be watching.

Ireland, Ireland. I thought that was the same thing, apparently not.

It is most certainly not.

Cillian Murphy

Cillian Murphy during an Interview for Inception

You both are British…

No, I’m Irish.

Yeah I know, British.

No, no, no, I’m Irish.

Oh, sorry.

Ruth Negga

Negga was called a "British Rising Star" by Telegraph and Evening standard for her role in "Loving"

Golfer Paul Dunne

BBC commentator Eddie Pepperell labelled him as British during the British Open recently

Domhnall Gleeson

GQ, The Guardian, the Evening Standard and the Daily Mail have all praised his performance in a Burberry Advert referring to him as a British Actor.

What makes me laugh is the amount of English people I meet here  is when they ask where I am from I tell them Dublin 75% of the time they ask is that North or South.  

So, if you are Scottish or Welsh, I apologize for my including you in the comment.