“fuck the pope and the IRA”
I mean, Marty’s not going to love me for this but if the next verse was “Fuck the queen and fuck the Ulster Unionists too” I’d find it difficult to disagree with the message of that song. Being anti organised religion and anti terrorism is fine by me.
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It wasn’t.
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+1 for the gimmick
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Doesn’t look too concerning to me. The court is basically saying “the govt has assured us that they will comply with the law. There’s no value in hammering the point by further instructing them to comply.”
I agree with this position. There’s already a law in place that requires certain behaviour from the government in the (pretty much certain) event of no deal being agreed in the next 10 days or so. A further demand that they adhere to that law would be as redundant as a ruling that Johnson mustn’t rape anyone in the next few weeks.
Leaves wide open the opportunity to drag them back into court the second they try any fancy business.
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Michelle O’Neill, the Sinn Fein leader in Northern Ireland, has meetings with EU officials in Brussels tomorrow. She has issued this statement explaining the message she will be delivering to them.
Today I led a Sinn Féin delegation which met with business representatives across retail, manufacturing, communications, hospitality and the food and drink industry and others concerned with the disastrous impact of Brexit on our economy.
The consistent message from all of the meetings is that the consequences of Brexit will be dire for the north.
They cannot plan for the future and are desperately worried about the prospect of job losses and economic collapse.
That is the reality for the economy in the north regardless of what the DUP or any other delusional Brexit cheerleaders may say.
This evening I will be travelling to Brussels for a series of meetings with EU diplomats. I will be making it clear to them that they have to remain firm on the need to avoid any hardening of the border, protect the Good Friday Agreement and protect our economy.
The north’s economy cannot withstand being excluded from the customs union and the single market and that is the message we will be bringing loud and clear to the EU.
Detlef Seif, the Brexit spokesman for Angela Merkel’s CDU parliamentary group, tells me that the account of the Merkel/Boris Johnson conversation being given by unattributable No 10 sources (see 11.18am) does not ring true. He explains:
In my mind it is completely improbable that the phone call between Merkel and Johnson took place in the way it has been reported in the British media. It would run counter to all the principles the German government has followed for the last three years, namely that the negotiations are led by the European commission. For the German chancellor to insist on Northern Ireland remaining in the customs union would completely breach these guidelines.
There has been a lot of scepticism about Johnson’s proposal in Berlin, but Merkel’s attitude has always been a positive one, to find out if there is room for a compromise. The only explanation I can see for these reports is that Johnson is trying to build a story where he blames Germany for a no-deal Brexit. To brief out a confidential phone call in such a manner is utterly unprofessional and infuriating to anyone who has been working on a deal.
https://mobile.twitter.com/NinaDSchick/status/1181548141281185793
Usual BS coming from the bigots
https://mobile.twitter.com/ImIncorrigible/status/1181591392000319493
https://mobile.twitter.com/ImIncorrigible/status/1181586601664815111