Re: WiFi range ...

On 07/08/2026 04:41, rbowman wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2026 22:15:20 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> Same thing happened in the EU. Many countries subsidies various exports.
>> In Ireland  you drove your cows across the border to the North,
>> technically part of the UK, and collected an EU export subsidy. Then you
>> drove them back through your neighbours farm that straddled the border
>> the following night.
> 
> I don't know if a subsidy is involved but I often buy Kerrygold or
> Dubliner cheese. It's excellent and very competitively priced compared to
> domestic brands like Tillamook. I don't use much butter but what I have is
> Kerrygold. They're brands of the Ornua dairy co-operative in Dublin.
> 
Kerrygold is nice butter.

I buy supermarket own brand which is probably Kerrygold in a plain wrapper.

Cheese? Ireland nothing special, rest of EU infinitely better - so many 
types available.

It's the one thing I do buy from the EU, that and some wines, although 
it's just as likely to S American,  S African, Australian or New  Zealand.

Or even middle eastern - had Lebanese wine once. Not bad.


> Does Northern Ireland still have that strange status in the EU? I remember
> the discussions about the problems if there was a border with the Republic
> but haven't kept up.

Yes. It is still being used as a lever to 'control the UK' . E.g. we are 
not allowed to zero rate VAT on domestic fuel because that would break 
the agreement in N Ireland as peole would buy heating oil in the North 
and drive it to the South, and with 'no borders' no one would stop them.

Most UK political class never wanted to leave the EU.  They love all the 
bureaucracy and the freedom from prosecution and the corruption.

WE are still fighting

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