Rónán Collins

He's soft left.

He would have changed his position on public ownership.

He would have changed his position on social housing.

He would have hardened his stance about immigration.

So I think what you'll find is that Andy Burnham isn't stuck to an ideology.

Andy Burnham is probably stuck to Andy Burnham.

I mean, England's in a very bad state.

I was talking to my first cousins just in England on a separate matter.

Youth unemployment is really, really high now in the UK.

There's a million at least.

really high like and the other thing is that you know I think the message that was put out initially that England is leaving the EU not Europe I mean that's just that was just a lie really I mean the EU is Europe and I think they do regret this

I also think that they haven't achieved what they thought they would.

Their economy is worse and actually the amount of immigration has risen, not fallen.

And so that was all a misguided thing.

But I think what I would more importantly reflect on is the impact on us.

You know, England is still a very important trading partner, 1.9 billion.

Yeah, it was our export market to England in April.

Vincent Daniel Murray writes about that today.

And also actually, Lucinda Creighton makes a very interesting point where she says, and I don't know how much merit there is in this, but she says that maybe the Irish influence in Brussels.

is slightly less because we don't have the machinery of the UK in Brussels also advocating what is usually a joint position.