Land of Hope & Glory? - UK Politics and other stuff

https://mobile.twitter.com/JenniferMerode/status/1214883895029710848

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https://mobile.twitter.com/kevinhorourke/status/1211015184346763267

Letā€™s blame Europe for not giving us ALL we had in the EUā€¦Fkn Muppets

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https://www.rte.ie/news/brexit/2019/1227/1103239-the-ghost-of-christmas-yet-to-come-ivan-rogers/

policyscotland lecture at Glasgow University

Looking forward to Brexiteers spinning natural and inescapable consequences of leaving the EU as ā€˜retributionā€™ imposed by a vengeful Brussels.

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Ohhā€¦ Thatā€™s already started :confused: As I had to get my parents to cancel their holiday that they booked in Europe for Februaryā€¦ They are livid at me and saying that its all Brussels faultā€¦

Itā€™s my dadā€™s health problems as he has reoccurring anginaā€¦

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TheQueen has spoken ā€œCalm down Harry, we have things to speak aboutā€

Palace has issued a statementā€¦ ā€œwe weā€™re not notified and are furiousā€

Well not those words but you know what I meanā€¦

https://twitter.com/HouseofCommons/status/1214996118322532353?s=20

God I hate this country

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I admit I donā€™t know anything much about contemporary Irish politics, but I found this story just completely baffling. Do you know what was going on? I assume the explanation above isnā€™t correct, and it wasnā€™t about reaching out to people in the North. So that presumably means there is some constituency in the Irish state itself that would have supported the commemoration for its own reasons. Is that true? Who is it?

Well done Harry and Meghan imo.

Watching the pathetic coverage on BBC News channel youā€™d have thought they brought down the monarchy ā€¦which isnā€™t a bad idea in itself.

We go on about human rights and the pursuit of happiness - well it applies to all.

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Itā€™s hard to know who the constituency is exactly but the RIC was basically made up almost entirely of Irishmen. Itā€™s been brushed under the carpet for decades as a sort of national embarrassment but far more Irishmen fought in a British uniform than ever fought for Irish independence. In recent years, some of their descendants have been pushing for various commemorations. It started with remembering the Irishmen who fought and died in WWI and has now moved on with this latest debacle to commemorating the RIC.

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https://mobile.twitter.com/Femi_Sorry/status/1215294980950036483

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So flying to America to live is apparently worse than flying to America and hanging around with convicted Pedoā€™sā€¦

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https://mobile.twitter.com/Femi_Sorry/status/1215169978518986753

Royal family fret that Harry will be leaving & refuse to have a backboneā€¦ I canā€™t blame them for making this decision & wish they would speak in a stronger tone wrt our free press.

But that accent - heā€™s been watching too many Guy Ritchie films.

I can Adam & Eve thatā€¦ :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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https://mobile.twitter.com/ImIncorrigible/status/1215359036964724737

https://mobile.twitter.com/ImIncorrigible/status/1215355990750769155