@stephen_rth "It's not a border that one has to go through every day."
Yes, just 30,000 locals (or should we call them the natives) have to cross every day to work, and I'm sure the natives will be very grateful for "a close eye" being kept on them, "as we had during the troubles".
FFS
@EmmaKennedy You couldn't renationalise all the UK, only in England Scotland and Wales since N.Ireland gets a lot of it's electricity from the EU and Britain isn't what you would call a trusted partner any more.
@KevinRampling Andrew Bridgend is the MP who said on NI radio that being English entitled him to an Irish passport before being corrected by an incredulous presenter. He also thinks soldiers who murder completely innocent civilians in the UK shouldn't be prosecuted if the victims were N. Irish.
@TheTotalTruth1 @ByDonkeys @gavinesler @BorisJohnson@MattHancock@CIJ_ICJ Prosecute them alongside any murderers who hide behind a British army uniform for protection. Immunity given to any murderers is corrupt under human rights legislation.
Innocent civilians go about their daily lives despite oppression and shouldn't get shot for not loving Britain
@ByDonkeys @gavinesler Don't forget the government has used Brexit to put in health restrictions. For example pets travelling with their owners on a weekend trip from Belfast to Glasgow will be destroyed or quarantined unless they have up to date rabies vaccinations. So that's a relief 🙄
@yamaking666 @DavidRandall_ You should vote for political parties that try to represent all the UK. At the moment I think it is exclusively the green party who don't exclude national groups from their invited electorate. The others disenfranchise N.Ireland. No Tory candidates=no Tory voters to look after.
@DavidRandall_@MichelBarnier@eltonofficial That isn't even on the cards. So many people have been adversely affected in ways they thought would never happen. People are still discovering the truth, slowly, as we sift through the lies. I didn't lose EU citizenship, I lost all sense that we in NI are welcome in the UK.
@Starla_Shi Severe pain is a game changer. During childbirth I had pethidine which sent me away with my pain to suffer alone in outer space hell. A far cry from recreational use which takes you to a pleasant place where you'll never feel alone.
@mikegalsworthy The difference is that the EU was closing the border after listening to false conspiracy theories that we were smuggling vaccines through NI while Johnson is being forced to acknowledge the empty food shelves, the threats of violence against customs staff and to pretend he cares.
@rogbrodie@westcountrybird Was it worth the trouble currently causing empty shelves and customs officials unable to work due to paramilitary threats? Or was what Brexit is doing to NI worth it to achieve English liberation from whatever discomfort the EU was causing you?
@zugzwang79@VeraHiggs @GeordieJoeHardy Their policies are fairly similar, we don't have a conservative party here, Tory supporters in NI almost exclusively vote for unionist parties and the DUP are the biggest of them. Do you support the north of England getting money for their votes?
@emmersonslaw @PatricKielty@BorisJohnson The EU and UK are both taking the radical step of speaking to political leaders from Northern Ireland today.
They might learn something.
NI's problems are complicated, but not unfathomable. The two sides need to stop poking at what they don't understand and ask how they can help.
@compass_keen @FintanDevine @Storm15660 @PatricKielty@ThatTimWalker@BorisJohnson Reunification would look like the North being a devolved part of Ireland with our own assembly at Stormont retaining much the same role it has now. It's in the good Friday agreement.
Poor @BorisJohnson Such terrible luck with these Irish Sea border shenanigans. And so unexpected. Not like a border in Ireland versus a border with Britain has ever led to violence in Northern Ireland before. Seems like he’s just done his best. Again.
@zugzwang79@VeraHiggs @GeordieJoeHardy It is the same as the Tories spending more money in the north of England after the people there elected Tory MPs to give them a majority in parliament. Why is it ok to give extra money to the poorest regions in England, but not to the even poorer region of NI?
Is it racism?