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A reminder that our Northern Irish colleagues have Erasmus...
If you think the Scottish, Welsh & English should have it too, sign here 👉 https://t.co/QE8UxihnB9
These new figures along with other recent @BelTel@LucidTalk polls would indicate that the criteria for calling a border poll has been met and will happen in this decade
"There has been a substantial shift towards Irish Unity.... that has been driven by Brexit".
@JonTonge - on his research of Alliance party members.
#SundayPolitics | @MarkCarruthers7
The Protocol was not foisted on anyone but was Boris Johnson’s proposal. When it came to a choice between no deal or a special deal for NI, Johnson was clear. (Not that his Brexit worked either). But for the avoidance of doubt or revisionism👇
Anyone who thought that UK constitutional law had moved beyond the era of statues being disapplied for conflict with EU law, and the whole Factortame issue was confined to legal history, was wrong. This week the High Court (NI) disapplied 10 sections of an Act passed last year …
How the failures of Brexit feed Radical Brexitism. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. Truss, Braverman & Anderson illustrate how as Brexit continues to fail to deliver its promises a more radical Brexitism feeds off the politics of nostalgia & grievance: https://t.co/PjFkwhrT0b
@SuzyJourno “If SF needs to throw border poll dates to the republican base, let’s not all get caught up in that game" (J. Donaldson)
Is this from the DUP who cynically in their election 2022 manifesto mention the poll 5 times in the Introduction on page 4 in order to scare up some support?
President Michael D Higgins has been taken to hospital for some tests, after he reported feeling unwell earlier today. The 82-year-old was checked out by a doctor at the Aras, but was taken to hospital as a precaution. It’s not yet known if he’ll be kept in overnight
@JohnOBrennan2 "... the Good Friday Agreement requires the ECHR to be enforceable directly in the courts of Northern Ireland. There is no obvious way that the ECHR can be enforceable directly in the courts of Northern Ireland if the UK is not a party to the ECHR."
https://t.co/SDye7msa6N
Where to begin? How did the DUP buy into the idea that Article 2, the Protocol/WF provision on the non-diminution of rights, "does not apply to rights-based issues"? Sure, accuse the UK Govt of mis-selling, but probably best not to do so at the cost of your own credibility.