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@Muinchille

Jonathan Mills

3 months

When we look back, I think we're going to see that this moment of perfectly clear misunderstanding in 2023 was when the politics of Ireland changed utterly.

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Confusion as Mattie McGrath asks RTE bosses 'who are you loyal to?'

This was the moment communications broke down between TD Mattie McGrath and interim deputy Director General of RTÉ Adrian Lynch._____________________________...

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Jonathan Mills

4 years

Noticing that Brexiters are increasingly referring to the Withdrawal Agreement as "Theresa May's" deal. Now her deal was the Backstop. The WA is the Frontstop, and it was Johnson's deal. Doublethink by gaslight. Don't fall for it.

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The whole point of Northern Ireland's entire existence is that it would be permanently dominated by a unionist majority. Now what?

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3 years

I suppose this has to be done. That Vernon Bogdanor article in all its glory. @BrigidLaffan

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You often get ppl on here asking why Irish ppl are still talking about the Famine. It is because the Famine was the single most dangerous and suppressed fact in these islands. In it can be found the end of empire & the truth about British governance. It was the unspeakable crime.

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2 years

If Putin did pay Farage, and whatever he paid, my God he got value for money. British politics is destroyed, utterly.

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2 years

Just for reference for Brexiters and those in Britain who think that the anti-Protocol marches are a big deal; this is what an Irish protest march really looks like....

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4 years

Indeed they do, but then so do the French, the Spanish, the Italians and a whole host of smaller nations their way too, and the British aren't exactly behind the door when it comes to giving orders, which is the point; the EU makes them all cooperate.

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Actor Sir David Jason: 'the Germans want to run Europe'

Only Fools and Horses star David Jason has hit out at Britain's involvement with the EU and claimed "the Germans want to run Europe".

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A friend of mine, living alone some distance away, suffers from a chronic illness. The day after he got back from hospital, the Gardaí called on him, and every day since, to see how was he doing. Today they took him shopping. Thank you, @GardaTraffic it's a weight off my mind.

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5 years

BoJo gave the game away on #andrewmarr "...seed funding for hospitals." Seed funding means something specific. It means that you put in a few quid, & others follow with lots more. Who wd that be? Wd it be Private Equity; the lads who demand 20% returns?

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Varadkar on RTE - "the fact that the British Government resiled from a legal agreement with 28 states illustrates the need for the backstop".

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1 year

Your regular reminder that Brexit and its divisive shenanigans undoubtedly helped encourage Russia to invade Ukraine.

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5 years

I don't know about you, but I think if I were an English poitician doing a video in Scotland about the wonderful fruits of the Union, I would at all costs avoid mentioning Culloden. Jeremy Hunt, ladies and gentlemen.

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“Adam Smith is just one of many examples of what we are capable of doing as a country when we work together.” 🤷🏻‍♂️ Am struggling to get my head round this one. Is the implication that we can do Adam Smith again?

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4 years

Not what you'd expect in Killiney...

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Bogdanor, Vernon. With a bit more work and an effort to address things in a balanced way, he might get a Third in Anglo-Irish relations....

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4 years

Giving a 24% to a party that has been around for a long time, doing good committee and opposition work in the Dáil, while building a strong organisation, does not qualify as "succumbing to populism". Why do good UK commentators so often succumb to casual stupidity about Ireland?

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4 years

So Ireland, which has been politically stable for decades, has also succumbed to populism now. #GE2020 .

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5 years

“Ireland is not just mammothly pro-European, and deeply invested in the Northern Irish peace process, it is aghast at the cohort of nonsensical charlatans that have seized power in Britain.”

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1 year

"President Biden’s insulting decision to prioritise Ireland over the UK on his visit to mark the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement should have come as no surprise." Well, no. Ireland is kind of where the GFA is at.

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Joe Biden has gravely insulted Britain

The US President thinks nothing of lecturing the government on Northern Ireland policy, and has shown contempt for the Special Relationship

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5 years

To all those Brexiters who have been telling me for the last two years that either; a) Varadkar & Ireland would cave b) The EU would throw Ireland under the bus How do you like them apples?

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2 years

"Meanwhile, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has accused Brussels of implementing the Northern Ireland Protocol in an "insane" and petty way." RTÉ. Bizarre; it is the British government who implement nearly all of the Protocol.

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3 years

Brexit buster arrives in France. Load up, turn around and back to Rosslare. This was only announced yesterday, but it departed Ireland fully laden.

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9 months

Britain has problems with Ireland, problems getting consent, problems with borders, and where they might go. We all appreciate that these are difficult problems for them, but Ireland didn't set those problems in front of Britain. They brought them entirely on themselves.

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5 years

5 Reasons why the Tories can and will blame @duponline for No Deal; 1. The remainers loathe them 2. They're foreign as far as most English leavers are concerned 3. They don't own any London newspapers 4. Somone has to go under the bus 5. They really are to blame for a lot of it

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2 years

The constitutional point of no return; we will look back later, and see this as the moment when Her Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland finally began to irrevocably destroy itself.

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Coveney calls on UK to step back from unilateral change

The Minister for Foreign Affairs has called on the British government to step back from unilaterally introducing legislation which breaches international law, and which he believes threatens the...

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4 years

I think that we may owe it to the North to accept that they told us so, and that they have been telling us so for at least half a century. The excellent Bernadette Devlin on Rule of Law & the UK in 1972...

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4 years

Bernadette Devlin explains British "democracy" to William Buckley in 1972: "When we break the law, we go to jail. When the government breaks the law, the government changes the law." Changing inconvenient laws to circumvent illegality has long been a British government tactic.

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3 years

Several ouch moments for unionism, in one smooth narrative....

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What is extraordinary about the Donaldson matter is not so much the allegations against him. That's a story as old as time, but that they were investigated and that he was charged. Such things kept secret are the currency of British power in Ireland. They never just give them up.

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25 days

A nation rejoices at the appointment of Simon Harris... Kildare Street, today.

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2 years

There you go, Northern Ireland's famous inbuilt Protestant majority just evaporated. 43.5% Protestant 45.7% Catholic

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Jonathan Mills

5 years

A senior EU source said Mr Johnson went back to London "with his tail between his legs" after meeting Ms Merkel and Mr Macron.

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Johnson: Brexit talks going down to wire

Boris Johnson has threatened to bring Brexit negotiations down to the wire and reignited fears of the UK crashing out of the EU without a trade deal.

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3 years

Coveney "Some people are trying to rewrite history here. The protocol is not primarily the problem, it’s the Brexit that the UK insisted on.”

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Taoiseach tells Dáil Northern Ireland protocol ‘needs some changes’

Johnson says he is prepared to invoke Article 16 to ensure no barrier down the Irish Sea

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2 years

As a teenager and young adult during the Troubles, I went back and forth between the Border and Dublin. In Dublin there was a certain crowd who acted as though the Troubles weren't real or anything to do with them. Curiously, they're the same folk as now wish to end neutrality.

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4 years

For younger Irish viewers this is what Brits mean when they say the Irish are "obsessed with history" . Our inconvenient tendency to remember what inconveniently happened, as long ago as last week, is a deep inconvenience to them.

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3 years

It is increasingly clear that the British government have no idea how to stop what they have started in Brexit, and can do no other than drive it faster and faster, until something breaks, or a higher power stops them. Northern Ireland is now in the path of their runaway train.

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Britain says unionist anger over Brexit deal could put Northern Ireland 'in quite a dangerous place'

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2 months

Ireland 1964 "I didn't see you at mass." Ireland 2024 "Have you completed the online diversity training yet?" I liked the decades in the middle better.

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Jonathan Mills

1 year

Brexit really drove a coach and horses through many of the delusions current on this island and the junior one next door. It might be fun to list them. I'll start; Britain genuinely thought it was able to feed itself and that Ireland couldn't.

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4 years

The EU will wait, and let the clock run down, and see what happens in the UK. In decency one does not assist another to self harm, in respect one does not interfere in another country. If the UK wants access to the EU's markets, they know the price.

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If you were the EU27, what would you do tomorrow?

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2 years

For those unfamiliar with this matter, this award was given to the survivors of a dance band which was blown up by loyalist paramilitaries, who were commanded by a British military intelligence officer. It was part of a campaign to force the Irish government to close the border.

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£1.5 million awarded for collusion with the UVF and barely a ripple about it. Stunning

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1 year

"Four Protestants, including a former loyalist, are now in custody..." Unusual for the "New IRA".

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Four Protestant men arrested over New IRA’s attempted murder of top cop John Caldwell

Four Protestants, including a former loyalist, are now in custody – arrested in connection with the New IRA’s attempted murder of top cop DCI John Caldwell...

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4 years

UK: We really will walk out EU: We know UK: No, seriously EU: Yeah, we know UK: You'll miss us EU: We know UK: We're going to do it EU: OK UK: We're going now EU: Yep UK: It'll hurt you know EU: We know UK: We're still going EU: Yep UK: Well! EU: 🤷‍♂️

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The UK’s threat to walk out of EU trade talks is real

London and Brussels have both turned these negotiations into a zero-sum game

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Jonathan Mills

5 years

Does Her Majesty's Government ever actually solve their own problems, or do they just dump them on everyone else?

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Brexit: UK assumes French plans 'will ease no-deal disruption'

The government assumes about 50% of cross-Channel trade will be delayed - better than the 80% first feared.

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2 months

@fergusfinlay We're being offered an untested and vague alternative by people who know the legal ramifications but refuse to share them and, in some cases, have misrepresented them. Shades of Brexit. I think not. #NoNo

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3 years

Gove "More people in the UK voted to leave the EU than have ever voted for anything." A beautiful piece of Goebbelsiana, simple, eloquent, containing a morsel of truth and a thousand lies in one perfectly formed sentence. Chapeau.

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2 years

The DUP seem determined to demonstrate that Northern Ireland can never work.

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2 years

What is unionism for? More to the point what is the Union for? These questions cannot be answered, for the answers would choke a unionist to speak them aloud; the suppression of Ireland, the depopulation of Scotland, the great wealth of small men, that was what the Union was for.

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1 year

Having destroyed the UK's relationship with the rest of Europe, Britain's ERG faction moves on to destroying the UK's relationship with the USA.

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4 months

Can we be clear about something? Partition was never intended to be a solution, not in Ireland, not in India, and not in Palestine. It was intentionally designed to create problems for states that had escaped the empire, nothing else. In that, it has been entirely successful.

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3 years

This sort of thing does NOT happen to me every day... I would like to make it quite clear that I have had neither hand nor part in the British fuel crisis.

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2 years

I dislike personal comments on Twitter, however @DavidGHFrost is a special case; he is the man who tried to restart the Troubles in Northern Ireland for his own political purposes this summer. Good riddance; I hope that when his day comes, he goes to his reward in Hell.

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2 years

The NI Protocol position in a nutshell, from @martinwolf_ in the FT...

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1 year

In case you were only watching RTÉ, a bit of a seismic shift occurred in the North over the weekend.

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Border poll clarification calls expected after nationalism outpolls unionism

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Jonathan Mills

1 month

That would be the time that one of the smallest nations in Europe whipped the ass of the largest empire in the world with light casualties and very little collateral damage. The empire never worked out how it was done or got over it, as this tweet demonstrates.

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Higgins, Varadkar and Martin lead the Irish state’s annual celebration of its national cult of blood sacrifice, commemorating those who chose violence when peaceful means were available. Northern Ireland’s First Minister for All was in attendance.

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Let's just go over this again for those who were apparently sleeping at the back. The EU's foreign affairs mechanisms are how we, in the EU, deal with you, outside the EU. That's you in the UK, for example. So no, no access.

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Labour to seek regular UK access to EU foreign affairs council

Proposal is one option for more formalised relations with Brussels if opposition party wins general election

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3 years

In fairness to Varadkar, he just knocked it out of the park... (I know, but what can you do? He did.)

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4 years

1,2,3, 4 reasons to REUNIFY; 1) the North is a constant drain on Irish diplomatic resources. To see this imagine Ireland had reunified a decade before Brexit. We would have had two issues; the landbridge and a threat to 10% of our international trade. A breeze in comparison.

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3 years

This is serious. Coveney is probably the EU foreign minister most sympathetic to the UK. If you are British you should take this as a final warning on the Internal Markets Bill.

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3 years

BREAKING: Irish Foreign Affairs Minister @simoncoveney says UK-EU deal "won't be ratified" if the British government reintroduces parts of the internal market bill struck out by the House of Lords this week. #Ridge

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1 year

In the end, the only solution for NI's problems is the end of NI. The interaction of British authority and Irish society is the problem, and there's no getting around that. We await the slow learners, as usual.

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oooooooof

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2 years

In which two unionist leaders thoughtfully remove the image of the third, with a rope round his neck. It's easy enough to let the genie out of the bottle, lads. Putting it back in is the hard trick.

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8 months

Your regular reminder that the credit union movement lost 3 out of 360 unions in the Crash, which cost less than 250 million to fix. This compares to 3 out of 3 banks costing 26 billion to fix. Nonetheless, you're going to hear today that CUs need more banking style regulation.

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1 year

Ouch! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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11 months

The Irish constitution forbids the granting of titles of nobility... it's a great constitution. 🙂

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Boris Johnson’s resignation honours: knighthoods for Jacob Rees-Mogg and Michael Fabricant, a damehood for Priti Patel

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8 months

And in today's #Brexit , Who knew that would happen?" And so it begins...

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11 months

As a constitutional republican all my life, I have never felt kinder towards the DUP than I do today. They have served the interests of the 32 county Republic better than any other Irish political party in the last decade.

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Can't wait for the DUP to tiptoe round the fact they thought he was the Messiah not long ago.

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Jonathan Mills

4 years

This is the point where UK misconceptions about the EU begin to really bite. Italy has a very extensive, high quality first world health system. If they're struggling, then it's bad. Their lessons are the critical ones.

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Still trying to get my head round the fact there are people on Twitter seriously arguing the British government should be taking lessons in crisis management from the Italian state.

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4 years

Everyone, and I do mean everyone, pointed this out at the time. If the UK wanted to diverge from the EU, there was going to have to be a border somewhere. The brexiters denied it.

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4 years

I wonder why @pmdfoster and the trade associations did not point this out at the time when they were singing the praises of the Backstop/Protocol?

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Jonathan Mills

2 years

Enough is enough. Only a United Ireland will resolve all of this nonsense.

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Enough is enough. 👇🏻

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3 years

An extraordinary rewrite of history is underway in the UK. Apparently the Irish government did not engage with them enough about the consequences of Brexit. Reader practically the whole of Ireland was shouting at them, government included from before the referendum.

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@DrAlanWager @UKandEU @JohnSpringford Where to start with this... In 2015, 2 mths before Cameron’s election victory, his chief EU advisor Tom Scholar went to Dublin for a 4 hr mtg with senior official Rory Montgomery where they discussed his Europe policy. Inconceivable the implications for Ireland weren’t mentioned

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Jonathan Mills

3 months

Ireland's main contribution to the British Empire was to take it on and beat it. The first crack in the dam and the beginning of its end.

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The Scots and the Irish famously made very little contribution to the British Empire.

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One of the interesting things about the Ukraine invasion is the way it has demonstrated that some of those on the left who had once supported Soviet Russia apparently because it was socialist, turn out to have been supporting it because it was totalitarian. And Russia.

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@mooreholmes24 Still can't work out how the largest empire in the world lost Ireland while at the height of its power?

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3 years

UPDATE: Loyalists in Larne confident that they WILL be able to get the first Orangeman on the moon by the 12th!

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6 months

Britain can't cope with it, either...

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“A united Ireland cannot accommodate my Britishness” DUP leader Sir Jeffrey says there will be no united Ireland in his lifetime

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Jonathan Mills

1 year

The Good Friday Agreement sets out the playing field and the rules of the game, not any particular outcome. If unionism is losing, it's because they've scored so many own goals that the other side hardly even get a chance to score themselves.

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For unionists there is nothing to celebrate in the 25th anniversary of the Belfast Agreement: Jim...

TUV leader Jim Allister has said the Belfast Agreement was a “fraud” and a “deceit” designed to create a united Ireland.

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4 months

And in St Stephen's Day's #Brexit , "Who knew that would happen?"

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It seems that the government, having exhausted polls and focus groups where they found that very few agree with them, have now appointed a bunch of people who do, in a 'forum' they've made up. Forums have no constitutional status.

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Tánaiste defends forum after President's comments

Tánaiste Micheál Martin has defended his decision to convene the Government's Consultative Forum on International Security after criticism from President Michael D Higgins, who said Ireland is...

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Jonathan Mills

4 years

You pay your subs to get access to the world's largest market, and they are trivial compared to what you get out of it, but if cannot do more than count the cost of the sub, you're not fit to be in it.

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3 years

Still working as intended 5,000 years after it was built. The oldest standing roofed structure in the world.

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5 years

@karlusss @samdduffy @OxfordUnion It is the way that they expressed it. It's almost unbelievably patronising. It does not bode well for the next generation of British politicians and civil servants.

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UK total goods trade has fallen 22%, its EU exports 40% against modelled expectations courtesy of Brexit. That is a massive shock to the economy, comparable with a serious war. God only knows how services, hit by both Covid and Brexit, have fared.

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Brexit has already been a disaster for British trade

No one has much interest in talking about Brexit in the UK at the moment. The pandemic means that voters have more important things on their mind. The Conservatives are enjoying a bounce in…

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Jonathan Mills

3 months

"Why do we continue to fool ourselves that Northern Ireland is part of this country? It is not." Nor was it ever, Mr Hitchens.

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Another big step towards handover of territory in Western Europe

Why do we continue to fool ourselves that Northern Ireland is part of this country? It is not, writes PETER HITCHENS.

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Jonathan Mills

1 year

Donaldson has often looked out of his depth in London, and Washington is far deeper water. In the end, I suspect that we will have to thank Sir Jeffrey for his services to reunification.

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Jonathan Mills

1 year

Sorry, but why, of all people do the DUP have to be placated? 60 million ppl live in Britain, 7 million in Ireland and 500 million in the EU, but we are all to be held up for fewer than 1/2 million? Northern Ireland really does have a runaway sense of its own importance.

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Interesting piece here from @willcooling He notes that any deal must ‘placate’ the DUP. He’s right—because Donaldson, assuming he stays on as leader, needs something to sell. I suspect, thought, that it will mean selling a protocol in some form.

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"It was suggested Pat Cullen had said at an event in West Belfast: "I believe the only hope for the NHS is reunification." Having seen NI's NHS hospitals in action, I can't disagree. I'd drag myself over the border if I had a broken leg.

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UUP to seek clarity from nursing union over 'reunification' remarks

A UUP MLA said some nurses are "concerned that they don't want to get involved in orange and green sort of politics"

www.belfastlive.co.uk

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Jonathan Mills

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When unionism *forgot* to get cross community consent for Brexit itself, they kind of blew their chances of arguing that such consent would apply to the bits of Brexit they didn't like.

@JamieBrysonCPNI

Jamie Bryson

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2 years

Lord Trimble, one of the architects of the Belfast Agreement, delivers a passionate speech in support of @CatharineHoey amendment. Cross community consent can not be disapplied in order to force the Protocol on the Unionist community.

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Jonathan Mills

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The strangeness of Brexit. Half of the UK electorate (close enough) voted against Brexit. Half remain convinced that Brexit was a Bad Idea. Only a third still think it's a good idea. Yet: No English party unequivocally supports Remain. There's no Remain campaign. They'll Brexit

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Jonathan Mills

6 years

@sundersays The central fallacy in the article is that TM is negotiating with the EU. She isn't; any EU official will tell you that no proposals of any substance have been received. She continues to negotiate inside the Tory party. The rest of the world are (bored/impatient) spectators.

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4 years

"the film details the British government's role in the murder of over 120 civilians in counties Armagh and Tyrone."

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Unquiet Graves Is The Documentary Everyone Will Be Talking About Tonight | Balls.ie

Unquiet Graves airs this week on RTÉ1 and the film's director believes " it's a major step for the families in their search for truth."

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Jonathan Mills

1 year

No, Sammy, everyone blames you...

@BelTel

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1 year

DUP MP Sammy Wilson has claimed “all evidence shows” the EU is responsible for the political crisis in Northern Ireland, which has seen “the collapse of the Good Friday Agreement”.

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You'd wince for them. ‘Jeffrey is very soft spoken, doesn’t come across as hardline, but in the end, in American eyes, he’s sort of useless because he doesn’t have the strength to deliver his own team to the deal,’

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The decline and fall of the DUP

Along with death and taxes, life has only one other certainty: the DUP will never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

www.spectator.co.uk

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Jonathan Mills

2 years

@benhabib6 @trussliz My advice on this would be that you stay out of Irish affairs, about which you know little.

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11 months

Worthy of Flann O'Brien; '...it doesn't matter what kind of poverty we endure, so long as its red, white and blue poverty' Unionism and economics.

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Jonathan Mills

3 years

“We have a transition period, but we do not know what we are transitioning to with six weeks to go,” The original purpose of the transition period was to soften the shock of Brexit, not to be wasted by HMG playing a game of international chicken.

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Northern Irish businesses ‘horribly exposed’ by Brexit ‘mess’

NI Chamber of Commerce last month found just 39% of members preparing for departure

www.irishtimes.com

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Jonathan Mills

2 years

The thundering hypocrisy of this; Arlene Foster and the DUP at no point even mentioned cross community consent when attempting to inflict Brexit on NI, and their particularly unworkable version of it, too.

@ArleneFosterUK

Arlene Foster DBE PC #ProudofNI.

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2 years

I despair - They still don’t get it. Sovereignty only matters when it’s Ukraine and as for that consent thing in the Belfast Agreement sure what about it. 🤫 Bobby McDonagh: UK reneging on protocol would further unsettle the North

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Jonathan Mills

5 years

Sinn Féin are going so far as to back Lady Sylvia Hermon's candidacy by not contesting her seat. Quite a step. (In GB terms this is not unlike the Tories backing a Labour candidate against a known ERG member)

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5 years

This is a once in a generation election. We need to maximise the number of pro-remain MPs and oust DUP Brexiteers. Sinn Féin won't contest South Belfast, East Belfast or North Down. #GE19

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Sunak, sadly, turns out to be a clutz. Getting on with the president of the USA isn't the British PM's only job, but it's a minimum qualification, and he hasn't made it. I'm as disappointed as you are; we all need Britain to have someone who can actually do their job.

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1 year

Was it something he said? Donaldson "We can't go on with a situation where turnout in unionist areas is significantly lower than in nationalist areas..."

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NI local election results 'momentous' for SF - O'Neill

Sinn Féin vice president Michelle O'Neill has hailed a "momentous" election result with the party set to become the largest in councils in Northern Ireland.

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Jonathan Mills

2 years

I really would fear for the stability of the north if the DUP were so principled and determined about the Union that they didn't show up at Stormont to collect their salaries.

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Jonathan Mills

1 year

The problem here, and it's not a small one, is that the DUP think they're in an equivalent position to that of Sinn Féin when they closed down Stormont over Cash for Ash*, and after seven years of messing HMG about, they're really not. *A major DUP scam.

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Robinson - "NIO’s approach has been patronising towards unionist…

DUP East Belfast MP Gavin Robinson has cautioned the Northern Ireland Secretary of State to remember the core principle of the Belfast and successor Agreements is cross community support.

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Jonathan Mills

5 years

Constitutional crisis on the horizon...

@SkyNewsPolitics

Sky News Politics

@SkyNewsPolitics

5 years

The PM would be "dismissed" by the Queen if he fails to seek a delay to leaving the European Union in the event he can't secure a deal by October 19th, former Conservative MP Dominic Grieve says. Get live updates from the conference:

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Jonathan Mills

5 years

I am struggling with the idea that British "citizens" in NI have never threatened violence. They created NI by threatening violence, obtained it by violence, created a paramilitary force that constantly threatened & perpetrated violence and went on doing it for nearly 100 years.

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Jonathan Mills

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Ireland as a whole underwent three forms of "British connection," Lordship, "Kingdom," and most disastrous of all Union, over about 750 years. All failed. NI has also undergone three such; "secular" Home Rule, Direct Rule, and Power Sharing, and they all failed in one century.

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