IndoMike
Very well known Exeweb poster
Like father, like son.Stanley has always been a pillock
Like father, like son.Stanley has always been a pillock
…and it’s perhaps telling that Lord Trimble one of the architects of GFA is telling us that the protocol as it stands is tearing away from NI the consent and democratic legitimacy that are part of the GFA as it pertains to the loyalist community. If the US is prepared to take at face value the idea that the protocol is vital to protect against a hard border in Ireland, you have to be suspicious when other legitimate concerns from the ‘other side’ are just brushed off and ignored.BS - The US is under no obligation to 'take on the concerns' of any faction, it is a co-guarantor that the GFA international treaty is upheld, and respected. The EU is also a co-guarantor of that which the UK freely signed up to - including no border to be reinstated in Ireland.
All this talk of the importance of getting the DUPs consent is conditional on whether it suits the Conservative Party or not. Did they seek the DUPs consent before passing the bill that set up the Protocol and established the border in the Irish Sea?…and it’s perhaps telling that Lord Trimble one of the architects of GFA is telling us that the protocol as it stands is tearing away from NI the consent and democratic legitimacy that are part of the GFA as it pertains to the loyalist community. If the US is prepared to take at face value the idea that the protocol is vital to protect against a hard border in Ireland, you have to be suspicious when other legitimate concerns from the ‘other side’ are just brushed off and ignored.
It was clear from the start IMO that the U.K. signed up under parliamentary duress to an agreement that it would obviously want to change in fairly short order. Was that a cynical ploy by our Government, you probably think so, in my opinion it’s our Government doing what it has to do to mitigate for an agreement largely fashioned by a PM (May) and a parliament not much interested in embracing the act of leaving the EU properly.
Unfortunately, we are where we are now and the choices are stark for both sides. I’ll personally be cheering my own government on in its negotiations with a sometimes intransigent and tough opponent and hoping that Washington’s, Brussels and Dublin’s game of ‘dare’ with NI’s loyalist community doesn’t bite us all on the backside.
Care to elaborate?Interesting developments around Musk/Twitter/Trump!
Trump pronouncing himself President of Venus?Care to elaborate?
By interesting, do you mean entirely predictable?Interesting developments around Musk/Twitter/Trump!
Agreed. He'd drive them crazy...By interesting, do you mean entirely predictable?
Considering he's not gonna buy it anyway and will soon be in the pockets of China anyway cos they're going to be the biggest buyers of his car. Assuming he's not run them into the ground by then anyway