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“We will never forsake the blue skies of Ulster for the misty clouds of an Irish Republic…”
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What an absolute shower we have in this government. They don’t even have the decency to allow proper scrutiny of their Windsor Sellout…
@RishiSunak
@chhcalling
@SteveBakerHW
@JamesCleverly
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“IRA terrorists left their homes in the Republic to cross the border and murder men in lonely farms and villages - then raced back home safe in the knowledge that, even should the police have enough evidence to charge them, they would not be extradited.”
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By a Prime Minister who claimed: “Trust is earned, and I will earn yours.”
Disgusting.
@RishiSunak
@chhcalling
@SteveBakerHW
@JamesCleverly
Removing MPs from a committee to avoid them voting against a part of Rishi Sunak's Windsor Framework which would allow the EU to put checks on parcels going from mainland Britain to Northern Ireland is undemocratic, unethical and unacceptable.
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“The time has come to make clear that no unionist can possibly accept such a major internal UK barrier.”
Excellent from
@BenLowry2
. Unionists need to explain clearly to
@JoeBiden
and the world that the GFA has been undermined and must be rebalanced…
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The sabotage of Brexit - initiated by
@theresa_may
’s pitiful capitulation on the Irish border and consolidated by
@RishiSunak
via the Windsor Framework. What a spineless bunch of cowards we have been ‘led’ by…
@chhcalling
@SteveBakerHW
@GavinBarwell
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Gerrymandering a Select Committee to avoid scrutiny of the Windsor Sellout is one hell of a way to impress voters in a week of by elections…
Looking forward to the verdicts on Thursday…
@RishiSunak
@chhcalling
@SteveBakerHW
@JamesCleverly
@Simon4NDorset
Senior Tory Brexiteer calls own party 'bent' as furious Brexit row explodes
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From a Daily Telegraph reader. To say it will be difficult for the Tories to be taken seriously on immigration at the next election is a bit of an understatement…
@RishiSunak
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An independent country does not want to remain under the jurisdiction of a foreign court - its not that complicated…
If Frost says ECJ is a deal breaker it's because Frost doesn't want a deal
It's not that complicated
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You may indeed get it through the House of Commons
@RishiSunak
, but the British people will not be fooled by this sabotage of their democratic decision to leave the EU. Your Party will pay a heavy price for its betrayal of Brexit…
🔴 Downing Street has warned Tory backbenchers and Northern Ireland unionists that they will go ahead with their Brexit deal with or without their support
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“the EU could easily have dealt with the movement of goods from GB to NI through alternative arrangements and intelligence-led mechanisms – but the EU and ROI have seen Brexit as a political opportunity to drive a wedge between NI and the rest of the UK.”
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“That an audience largely consisting of conservative-minded voters could not think of a single reason for voting Tory should be a wake up call for
@RishiSunak
– and yet he ploughs on, hammering one nail into the Conservatives’ coffin after another”
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“…as a statement, it is without question one of the most ahistorical and profoundly stupid things ever uttered by a Northern Ireland Secretary. Little wonder that victims and survivors’ groups are up in arms.”
Take a bow…
@chhcalling
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Unionists are not anti-American. They are anti-terrorist sympathising Irish Republicans who romanticise the IRA as ‘freedom fighters’ when in fact they were barbaric and indiscriminate murderers who did not have the support of the majority of people in Ireland - North or South…
Unfortunate Northern Ireland pro British Unionism has become increasingly anti American. It’s important to keep in mind British unionism in N Ireland is a minority political view anymore (just about 40% of the vote in the six counties.)
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“The Irish government has spent the past few years taking cheap shot after cheap shot at the UK…Anglophobia is always a winning card for Irish politicians, and inflaming dislike of their neighbours a small price to pay for those precious Republican votes”
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“The Government thinks it can get the Windsor Framework through with a 90-minute debate and all the serious changes just done on the nod through secondary legislation instead of being passed on the floor of the House.”
What a bunch of shameless shysters.
@RishiSunak
@chhcalling
To cover the lies of Sunak,
@chhcalling
and
@SteveBakerHW
- the Government are now sacking any of their own MPs who would ask awkward questions which will expose the Windsor Framework for the treacherous deceit that it is.
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The absolute nerve of these people to pontificate about ‘disregard for the integrity of U.K.-Irish relations’. From a country that opportunistically weaponised the border against the U.K. and demanded that it remain an *OPEN* border.
Hypocrites…
@LeoVaradkar
@simoncoveney
This is an intentional effort by PM
@RishiSunak
and his gov to undermine Ireland’s immigration system. I am shocked by Prime Minister’s complete disregard for the integrity of UK-Irish relations.
We need to find a common sense approach to how we are going to manage this.
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There is a certain irony that, on the same day that a former PM faces charges of misleading Parliament, the current PM is trying to sneak through a ‘deal’ which he clearly mis-sold. And how pathetic that Parliament is likely to acquiesce in his deception…
@RishiSunak
The government are running scared of detailed scrutiny and proper debate on all aspects of the ‘Windsor Agreement’. I wonder why?
@RishiSunak
@chhcalling
@SteveBakerHW
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“In fact, unionists in Northern Ireland have choked down some of the most unpalatable concessions over the decades, in order to secure stability.”
It is not unionists who are intransigent. It is now time for others to ‘compromise’…
Superb, as always, from
@3000Versts
'The only people who had to be persuaded to embrace peace were the terrorist thugs who perpetrated violence. Should we really need to point that out to a Conservative secretary of state?' My column in this morning's
@News_Letter
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Translation: “Please don’t draw attention to the fact that Dublin knew that the Protocol was a one-sided, imbalanced, anti-unionist, ‘compromise’ and the embarrassing detail that Dublin rejected the double consent mechanism of the Good Friday Agreement.”
Let’s not read too much into these
#Brexit
comments. They’re inaccurate, divisive and unhelpful, but not unexpected.
The way forward is partnership and compromise to solve outstanding NI Protocol issues. I’m up for that, we always have been, as are the EU.
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Correct…
17.4 million people voted to ‘Take back control’ - not to give it away…
@RishiSunak
@chhcalling
@SteveBakerFRSA
@RobertBuckland
Hot on the heels of the Windsor Framework, the Prime Minister’s latest wrongheaded scheme would leave the UK aligned with the EU in perpetuity.
The only acceptable solution is to reassert British sovereignty in Northern Ireland - and kick the EU out.
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Apparently ‘protecting the Protocol’ has become more important than ‘protecting the GFA’. You have to laugh at the absurdity of Dublin’s position…
@trussliz
NEW: Simon Coveney says order from NI Agriculture minister Edwin Poots to cease all sea border checks from midnight is "effectively a breach of international law" and "playing politics with legal obligations".
@VirginMediaNews
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@RachelBurch2
@slievelamagan
Great pic. In Northern Ireland we have ‘The Dark Hedges’ - made famous by ‘Game of Thrones’…
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“Our masters will in the end be the European Commission. Our officials have kept us subjected to the bureaucratic bloc we chose to leave seven long years ago. We are left with the certainty that our ruling caste no longer understands what being sovereign means…”
@RishiSunak
“Sunak’s Windsor Framework rips the UK apart and robs us of our sovereign dignity” says Alex Story
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“It is now clear that the “green lane” is a complete misnomer due to its heavily fettered access. At best, it’s a bureaucratic “express lane”; at worst, it’s something the Soviets would have dreamt up to control the supply chain.”
@RishiSunak
@chhcalling
Read down for a letter on the practical reality of the Windsor Framework that Ministers and Conservative MPs don’t wasn’t to hear:
Letters: The NHS should apply tried-and-tested methods to beat bed blocking
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Translation: “I and my fellow Remainers did everything we could to roll over for the EU - including conceding a border in the Irish Sea. We would like the next PM to do the same…”
This is a good case in point. Wanting to avoid a trade war with our allies and biggest export market *should* count in Rishi's favour, but in today through-the-looking-glass Conservative Party it is a mark of unsoundness
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The brass neck of all these people talking about ‘respecting democracy’ - they forfeited the right to pontificate about ‘democracy’ when they failed to respect the democratic decision of 17.4 million people for the United Kingdom *as a whole* to leave the E.U…
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“A damning new report by the House of Lords has concluded that Boris Johnson's interim Brexit deal with the EU was better than the one struck by Rishi Sunak…”
These clowns have entrenched the Protocol, not removed it…
@RishiSunak
@chhcalling
@SteveBakerHW
@Simon4NDorset
Rishi Sunak should have stuck with Boris Johnson's EU deal and not the Windsor Framework
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“Brussels has passed 361 legal acts that are now enforced in Northern Ireland since the UK left bloc on Jan 1 2020…the fact that voters there have no say over such rules, enforced by the ECJ, has created a “democratic deficit”.
🔵 Liz Truss has been warned she must stick to the "red line" of ending the jurisdiction of European judges in Northern Ireland
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The absolute nerve of the Irish government to talk about ‘a denial of democracy’. Get back to us when you have respected the democratic decision of 17.4 million people…
Tánaiste Micheál Martin says the DUP’s boycott of Stormont represents a “denial of democracy”
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MPs were given a 90 minute debate, on only one aspect of the Windsor Agreement and they were required to vote before due scrutiny could take place.
The shady, dishonest and disgraceful way that the WA was railroaded through Parliament says it all…
@RishiSunak
@chhcalling
The House of Lords is now debating & approving the
#WindsorFramework
Statutory Instrument on the Stormont Brake that the House of Commons OK-ed last week. Find out why there are shortcomings in the scrutiny that the Framework will have had at Westminster
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Utterly shambolic and rambling answers from the Secretary of State. They cannot even be clear about what is the focus of tomorrow’s vote! Absolutely pitiful…
@RishiSunak
@chhcalling
@SteveBakerHW
@JamesCleverly
@SJAMcBride
Chris Heaton Harris got in trouble at EU Scrutiny when asked by David Jones MP if tomorrow’s vote is on the Stomont Brake or the overall Windsor Framework. CHH said vote would be only on the Brake but his staff contradicted him saying for No10 it is on overall Windsor Framework
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A less petty and more gracious leader might have wished
@ArleneFosterUK
well in her new role. But such is the level of the modern Alliance Party…(and
@naomi_long
hasn’t even bothered to find out why GB News was named such…)
@antisyzygy
The irony of joining *GB* News to "bring NI to the mainstream". They literally ignored NI when naming the channel...🙄
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Dear
@BertieAhernFF
,
Unionists have been asked to compromise on:
1. The UK’s democratic decision.
2. The border recognised by the GFA.
3. The GFA’s principle of JOINT consent.
Nationalists couldn’t even accept a light touch compromise.
It’s not our turn to compromise…
Northern Ireland peace deal architect Bertie Ahern urges compromise by DUP to end Stormont stand-off
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“I could have resigned over the Windsor Framework and said it still leaves EU law in place, but what good would it have done for the people of Northern Ireland?”
1.
@stevebakerHW
it would have shown that you had principles.
2. It would have exposed the actual truth about deal.
UK govt is 'extremely reluctant' to reintroduce direct rule for Northern Ireland, minister
@SteveBakerHW
says
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“It’s incredibly disrespectful to Britain,” said an Asian veteran who had been coming to the Cenotaph for 25 years. “When my grandfather came to the UK, he fitted in, he didn’t start laying down the law about what he wanted. This is a good country, show some gratitude”.
Indeed…
@CatharineHoey
Mobs chanting genocidal slogans have free rein on British streets. Enough is enough
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Well, well, well…It looks like our neighbours in the Republic are suddenly very keen on a ‘hard’ border!?
Whatever happened to ‘protecting the Good Friday Agreement’?
@LeoVaradkar
@simoncoveney
@vonderleyen
@MarosSefcovic
Emergency laws will be brought to Cabinet on Tuesday to enable the Government to send asylum seekers back to the UK. Minister for Justice Helen McEntee is expected to discuss a new returns policy with her British counterpart in London on Monday |
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“some genuine concerns about process”
Can you imagine the outcry from
@StephenFarryMP
and others if the UKG had rigged a Parliamentary Committee by replacing five Remainers with five Brexiteers at the last minute!?
@RishiSunak
@chhcalling
@SteveBakerHW
I witnessed quite a lot of petulant and childish behaviour tonight from a few Conservative MPs. While there may be some genuine concerns around process, on the substance this is about implementing the Windsor Framework. It may be an imperfect outcome but we need to move on.
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Tonight especially, let us remember the bravery of all the officers who served in the Royal Ulster Constabulary - the bravest police force in the world. And especially the brave officers who made the ultimate sacrifice in trying to keep us safe…
The policing board must intervene. How dare
@ChiefConPSNI
even contemplate hiding police memorials and joint policing
@J_Donaldson_MP
@DKennedy_UUP
@BeattieDoug
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How predictable.
@RishiSunak
further sabotaging Brexit by ‘postponing’ the REUL Bill. No doubt that Windsor Surrender Agreement has greater priority.
#Brexitsabotaged
A huge and inexplicable setback for Brexit: the REUL Bill has vanished from the latest version of the
@UKHouseofLords
Forthcoming Business. (Report Stage was due to start on 19 April.).
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“
@JoeBiden
’s blinkered view of the Irish conflict is so pronounced that his administration has totally failed to grasp the constitutional implications of the Northern Ireland Protocol…”
✍️ 'Joe Biden’s unhelpful involvement in the Northern Ireland Protocol is another example of how the US, rather than aiding the cause of peace, has often achieved the opposite' | Writes Con Coughlin
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Put simply, the Good Friday Agreement is international law and its provisions (as enacted in the Northern Ireland Act) state that controversial decisions must be referred to the Executive. Protecting th Good Friday Agreement has priority over protecting the Protocol…
Put simply, the British Government has an obligation to comply with International law.
Surely that’s not too much to ask as we all work to find agreement on flexible & pragmatic implementation of the NI Protocol.
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I am old enough to remember a time when the vast majority of nationalists had the decency to vote for the SDLP instead of a terrorist Party which maintains that there was ‘no alternative’ to the indiscriminate massacre of innocent men, women and children by cowardly gangsters…
I am old enough to remember when Arlene Foster’s elevation to leader of DUP attracted unprecedented levels of goodwill across the political spectrum.
Her intransigence, petulance, pettiness, lack of generosity, anti-Irish sentiment and myopia have been catastrophic for Unionism.
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The 64 million dollar question:
“Why– so long after the IRA stopped its campaign of terror – does Northern Ireland’s society still operate on the principle that republicans must be continuously appeased if they are to support the rule of law and refrain from violence?”
The suspension of police officers to mollify Sinn Fein isn't the first time Republicans have got special treatment via
@CapX
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This ignores:
1. 17.4 million people voted for the UK as a whole to Leave and Parliament is sabotaging that decision.
2. Legislation without representation is simply indefensible.
3. The GFA has been ‘undermined’ not ‘protected’.
4. The EU is playing a cynical leverage game.
Those who argue that NI has been turned into an ‘EU colony’ by the Windsor Framework ignore the fact that whopping majorities in both the Commons and the Lords (the Sovereign Parliament of the UK, in other words) have endorsed that status. That’s the real problem for unionism.
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It’s a bit rich when ‘the ballot box in one hand and the armalite in the other’ Party are giving lectures on ‘democracy’…
The DUP only want democracy on their own terms.
Those days are gone & they aren’t coming back.
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A programme with a panel consisting exclusively of Protocol supporters and E.U. cheerleaders. How on earth does the BBC keep getting away with such obvious bias?
All good to go for tonight’s programme
@MatthewOToole2
@StephenFarryMP
join
@MarkCarruthers7
plus expert analysis from
@mlchealth
&
@JP_Biz
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@piersmorgan
Hysterical overreaction to her off the cuff quip. And it’s not as if Macron has gone out of his way to be our best buddies either…Not like you to be such a snowflake Piers…
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How can anyone possibly argue that the EU have acted in good faith with regard to a so-called ‘light touch’ ‘compromise’ border? Their maximisation of it for leverage has been cynical and vindictive…’Time to take back control’
@trussliz
@BorisJohnson
The number of agri-food certificates needing processed for N Ireland will be close to the number currently being processed by the entire EU under full implementation of the Protocol. More deals and costs. Wrong in principle and unworkable in practice.
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“Joe Biden will cancel a state visit to the UK unless a deal is reached over the Northern Ireland Protocol, sources warned on Thursday night…”
I hope that Biden realises that any ‘deal’ needs to have cross community support this time…
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Better to be a ‘pound shop Nigel Farage’ than a ‘30 pieces of silver Judas’
@SteveBakerHW
In a pool interview, Steve Baker asks whether Boris Johnson wants to be remembered as “pound shop Nigel Farage” for opposing the Windsor Framework 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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“People are sick of the broken promises and betrayal by Westminster. They want Brexit properly delivered. They want Northern Ireland back in the UK. They want EU laws off our statute books. They want our government to control our laws, our borders, our cash and our fish…”
Over 3 years since the Northern Ireland Protocol was conceived to rip Northern Ireland out of the United Kingdom.
It was the EU’s aim to punish the UK for voting to leave and Northern Ireland was the price they extracted.
It is an attack on the UK
👇🏼
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“Trust is earned and I will earn yours” claimed
@RishiSunak
By rigging a Parliamentary Committee - replacing 5 Brexiteers with 5 Remainers at the very last minute!?
@chhcalling
@SteveBakerHW
@JamesCleverly
@Simon4NDorset
Brexiter MPs accuse government of ‘blatantly rigging’ NI deal vote
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“For almost 3 decades they put bombs in public places, shot random people in the head and tortured others to death. After 30 years of this they became ‘men of peace’. Suddenly McGuinness and co were not to be criticised. Instead they were applauded for laying down their weapons.”
‘Ireland’s violent men of peace’. On the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. My column in this week’s
@spectator
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@Simon4NDorset
The rule of law - as in the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement which state that controversial decisions must have the approval of the Executive. How about trying to ‘protect the Good Friday Agreement’ Simon?
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This says it all. If the UK had called the EU’s bluff from the start, the border ‘issue’ would have melted away. It was deliberately hyped up and weaponised as a cynical leverage tool…
According to this EU diplomat reported in the
@FT
the alternative to the Irish Sea border with all its documentation, costs, checks and political disruption is just some random spot checks away from the Irish border to protect the Single Market…?!
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“the Irish Sea border will simply be accepted as a permanent fact of life and our hybrid status in the UK will be confirmed. Perhaps even more importantly, it will show that N.I.’s Union with GB can be changed or diluted in the future without unionists’ consent…”
Unacceptable.
'Whatever the DUP negotiated with the government, it will not remove the Irish Sea border or repair the Union effectively.' The worst outcome for unionism is claiming a bad deal as a victory. My
@News_Letter
column.
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@NornIrishBrit
Talk sense man.
@theresa_may
’s ‘deal’ was a sell out - even the EU and Dublin were surprised by her pitiful capitulation on the Irish border. She is the reason we are in this mess…
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UKG would get more respect if they at least admitted the truth: “The EU were intransigent and all we could get was this crappy deal”. But to pretend that the Windsor Framework is a wonderful deal, to lie about its nature, and to railroad unionists into accepting it is deplorable.
Owen Polley provides the details of how “Unionism compromised repeatedly, with little reciprocation, and, even now, some unionists want to concede fundamental aspects of our UK status, to satisfy the demands of nationalism …”.
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It is perfectly reasonable to extend a warm welcome to any foreign leader as a matter of diplomatic courtesy.
It is quite another matter to carry on the pretence that the Windsor Agreement somehow ‘protects the GFA’ when it clearly trashes the East-West dimension.
@BeattieDoug
The President of the United States will visit Northern Ireland met by the UK Prime Minister. The worlds media will be watching
We can promote Northern Ireland as a welcoming, positive place……or promote it as unwelcoming & negative
I won’t be taken in by angry negative voices.
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Translation: “The Irish govt. invented non-existent ‘implied meanings’ of the Good Friday Agreement, insisted that the GFA’s joint consent mechanism be scrapped and *knowingly* alienated the unionist tradition - all in the name of ‘protecting the GFA.”
@LeoVaradkar
@simoncoveney
Good Friday Disagreement: Brexit & the meaning of Peace
@RTENews
25 yrs ago the GFA signatories could not have imagined the role it would play in the tortured process of Brexit
Here’s how all sides laid claim to be the defenders of the NI Peace Agreement
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An important reminder that the United Kingdom voted *as a whole* to leave the E.U. and that the Windsor Framework is a sabotage of Brexit which has to be dealt with…
@Nigel_Farage
@TiceRichard
@ZiaYusufUK
@RobertJenrick
@KemiBadenoch
@TomTugendhat
@JamesCleverly
@DavidGHFrost
To be a Brexiteer means believing in the constitutional, political, democratic and economic unit that is the United Kingdom.
Northern Ireland was left behind in the EU. We do not have Brexit.
@reformparty_uk
@Nigel_Farage
we must join
@TUVonline
👇🏼👇🏼
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On the contrary, the Protocol is the direct result of anti-democratic attempts to sabotage the democratic decision of the United Kingdom *as a whole* to leave the E.U.. It is precisely because of anti-democrats like
@naomi_long
that the Protocol exists…
@little_pengelly
Who exactly is stopping you calling us out? I'm just pointing out how desperate it looks at the minute.
And don't forget the protocol is a direct consequence of the disastrous Brexit you supported.
Alliance voted against Brexit and the Protocol.
Facts aren't your friend, Emma.
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What a sorry state nationalism is in. The basic moral decency of a John Hume or Seamus Mallon replaced by the moral bankruptcy of glorifying a terrorist cult. What it shall it profit a political movement to gain electoral success but to lose its very soul…?
‘Sinn Fein is increasingly triumphalist about IRA terrorism.’
Journalist Ben Lowry explains why Sinn Fein gains in the Northern Ireland council elections are ‘traumatic’ for unionists.
📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604
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Can someone please explain to
@chhcalling
and
@SteveBakerHW
that not everybody is prepared to sell their political principles for thirty pieces of silver…
Today, I have gathered the NI Parties to discuss how we can stabilise public finances.
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Precisely this. It is laughable that Unionists are painted as the ‘hardliners’. Unionists are being expected to accept:
1. The negation of the U.K.’s democratic decision.
2. A new border not recognised by the GFA.
3. A ‘hard’ border - instead of a genuine light touch compromise.
Being against an internal UK trade border, and the accompanying slew of needless bureaucratic regulations, is actually a moderate position.
Demanding an internal UK border, or implementing one on the back of demands, is actually pretty hardline.
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Despite all the propaganda claiming otherwise, nothing has changed: a sizeable majority of Northern Irish citizens still want to remain in the United Kingdom.
“Ipsos polls in today’s Irish Times could not be clearer: a Border poll in Northern Ireland would reject the prospect of unity by an unquestionably large margin” …
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Even by its normal standards, BBC N.I. was a complete disgrace tonight. The nationalist bias is ridiculous. People should send in complaints…
Striking contrast on
@BBCNewsNI
between the interviews with
@gordonlyons1
and
@moneillsf
@gordonlyons1
constantly interrupted by
@endamcclafferty
(could hardly finish a sentence) while
@moneillsf
allowed a free ride with no interruptions
#BBCbias
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“Predictably,
@JoeBiden
showed little concern for the Good Friday Agreement once it became clear that the Northern Ireland Protocol endangered the peace process because of the problems it presented to unionists.”
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Can someone please explain to
@SteveBakerHW
that you cannot put a price on sovereignty.
It is better to be a ‘Poundshop
@Nigel_Farage
’ than a thirty pieces of silver Judas…
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Translation: “We capitulated to our EU Overlords and lied about the ‘deal’ to try and make it seem better than it actually is…”
Whatever happened to ‘the Spartans’?
@SteveBakerHW
@chhcalling
@RishiSunak
🚨The Minister of State for NI says the Windsor Framework WON'T be "reopened" to satisfy some of the "hardest lines of opinion."
🗣He believes Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has a very "hard problem to deal with."
📻Steve Baker was speaking with our Reporter
@jamesgould23
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“In a 1998 Northern Ireland Life and Times survey, 70% of Catholics said they had “no sympathy at all” with the reasons republicans gave for violence.”
What happened to the basic decency of the nationalist tradition that 69% now think there was ‘no alternative’ to IRA terrorism?
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The real anti-democrats are the people who failed to respect the UK’s democratic decision and demanded a new internal U.K. border. This border was imposed on NI citizens without their consent and the anti-democrats demanded its ‘rigorous implementation’.
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“The experience of the past few years is clear: the EU can only be constrained by legally binding treaties, not good faith agreements. It cannot be given the benefit of the doubt, and Britain cannot rely on the goodwill of its apparatchiks
@RishiSunak
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“For a country that mocked Britain’s desire for sovereignty, and sought to use obstinate insistence as an open border as a means for punishment, it is a brutal comeuppance. Ireland’s elites are being hoist by their own petard…”
@LeoVaradkar
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17.4 million people voted for the UK to ‘take back control’. Nothing will hide the fact that this government have betrayed and sabotaged that decision by giving away control to the very Institution we voted to leave.
@RishiSunak
@chhcalling
@SteveBakerFRSA
@RobertBuckland
Rishi Sunak is betraying Brexit. His new Northern Ireland deal keeps the UK beholden to certain EU rules and regulations. In June 2016 we voted to break away from Brussels – so how come Brussels can still tell us what to do?, asks Brendan O’Neill
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“…the ‘Windsor Framework’ is a staggering political and legal sleight of hand devised to facilitate the transfer of legislative control over crucial areas of UK economic policy to the EU…”
@RishiSunak
@chhcalling
@SteveBakerHW
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Unionists should not be perpetuating the myth that it is unionists who say ‘No’ to everything. Nationalists said ‘No’ to:
1. The democratic decision of the U.K.
2. The border recognised by the GFA.
3. The GFA’s principle of JOINT consent.
4. A light touch compromise border.
Strategic thinking by unionists confronting the ‘never’ cycle so often promoted by the loudest voices.
#UnionOfPeople
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Correct decision from the DUP.
@RishiSunak
’s mis-selling of the ‘deal’ and his attempts to avoid properly scrutiny of it made this decision inevitable. Time for some proper transparency
@chhcalling
@SteveBakerHW
@JamesCleverly
NEW As I forecast last week DUP MPs will vote against the Stormont brake on Wednesday when MPs vote on the Windsor Framework.
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If we needed any extra evidence to rule out
@RishiSunak
, the endorsement of EU cheerleader
@Simon4NDorset
is the final nail in the coffin…
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Pretty much every Tweet by
@StephenFarryMP
and the Alliance Party amounts to: “The UKG are the baddies and the EU are the goodies…” The inability of them and others to be critical of the EU in any respect is part of the reason we are in this mess…
The Protocol Bill is counterproductive and dangerous. UKG has not taken negotiations with the EU seriously.
Today, I challenged Liz Truss on set out her negotiating strategy with EU. There is none. It is just megaphone diplomacy and bluster.
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The sad truth is that Brexit was sabotaged by Theresa May’s pathetic capitulation on the Irish border. Once conceded, the Protocol in any iteration acts as a Trojan horse to force whole U.K. alignment to EU rules…’You can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave’.
This is a hugely important analysis of the new agreement showing that it is not just NI that is effected but the whole of the U.K.Those who love the EU and want more EU will be happy with this deal
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Spot on
@JimAllister
- it is absolute nonsense to pretend that Stormont will be able to effect any significant changes to the Protocol. There is no basis for power-sharing until such changes have been achieved…
On UTV last night highlighting the necessity of Unionists standing firm on the Sea Border
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“We are not four separate nations in an agreement of convenience, as some would have us believe. We are one great country which shares a history and institutions, but also family and friends, memories and values.”
Well said
@trussliz
Liz Truss says she will stop Sinn Fein trying to ‘drive a wedge’ between Northern Ireland and Great Britain
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It is long past time for the GB electorate to waken up to the deliberate sabotage of Brexit by all the mainstream Parties - the Windsor Framework was cynically designed to keep the whole U.K. aligned to E.U. Rules…
@Nigel_Farage
@RishiSunak
@chhcalling
@SteveBakerFRSA
So Sunak appears to be set on transforming the Windsor Framework into something very close to Theresa May's perpetual "back-stop" lock-in to Brussels rules for the whole UK. No, no, no.
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“why doesn’t the BBC occasionally make mistakes in the other direction, painting the Israelis in too positive a light or wrongly ascribing deaths to Hamas?”
I made this point earlier in the week.
@BBCNews
‘mistakes’ are always in an anti-Israeli direction. Partisan propaganda…
The BBC’s Israelophobia is bordering on pathological. It treats all Israeli claims with extreme suspicion, often blaming it for acts of violence it blatantly did not commit. ‘Never trust a Jew’ is the implicit message of all this, says Jake Wallis Simons
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“Imagine thinking it’s a trump card to say Jews weren’t required to sit at the back of buses while neglecting to mention that they were instead forced into cattle trucks and transported to camps that existed solely for the purposes of racial mass murder.”
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We now have a whole range of people arguing that the GFA needs to be changed. The very same people who told us that the whole point of the protocol was to ‘protect the GFA’! Where is the intellectual honesty in that!?
@chhcalling
@LeoVaradkar
@RishiSunak
@naomi_long
Reform of the institutions so one party can't collapse them must be priority for new year, says
@naomi_long
See more here -
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If the Conservative Party had any sense they would see that standing up to the EU would put clear blue water between themselves and Labour and be very popular with the electorate. Unfortunately, they lack the backbone…
@RishiSunak
@JamesCleverly
@chhcalling
@SteveBakerHW
Northern Ireland protocol
"survival as Prime Minister depends on the outcome.
"If he is clever he will allow the talks to fail and then blame the EU but I fear he will try to push forward some sort of compromise"
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@Simon4NDorset
@lisaocarroll
@simoncoveney
Perhaps
@Simon4NDorset
could respect the decision of the British people ‘at the ballot box’ for the United Kingdom as a WHOLE to leave the EU - not for Northern Ireland to be left behind…It’s a bit late for him to pretend to be a champion of democracy…
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“The Irish cannot have their cake and eat it. They wanted an open border, and they have an open border…”
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Exactly this. Unionist goodwill has been thrown back in our faces. In exchange for a so-called ‘compromise’ border (not recognised by the GFA), the East-West dimension of the GFA has been trashed. We have ‘legislation without representation’ and the ‘green’ lane is not even green
@gawanorniron
@SimonCatRiley
The truth is unionism has been entirely sensitive to the need to avoid a land border. This largesse has been reciprocated with the equivalent of the robbery at knife point policy of Rigorous Implementation.
How can powersharing continue if there is no reciprocation?
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Translation: “We are no longer interested in “protecting’ the Good Friday Agreement. The principle of joint consent must be abandoned and ‘majoritarianism’ be adopted. The GFA must ‘evolve’ to facilitate the appeasement of nationalism and the sidelining of unionism.”
The Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement was written in such a way that it could evolve. We must be honest about the fact that it was a brilliant framework for peace but is proving a poor foundation for effective government. So, what next?
✍🏻
@TheTelegraph
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Can someone please let
@RhonddaBryant
know that most of the country holds Parliament in contempt ever since he and his fellow anti-democrats attempted to sabotage the democratic decision of 17.4 million people…
Attacking a committee that has been set up by the House could be considered a contempt of parliament.
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“The Northern Ireland Protocol…imposed without consent, and contrary to the Act of Union and the Belfast Agreement, has left Unionists questioning whether the process is really deserving of their continued support…”
@trussliz
Why are Dublin and Brussels killing off the peace process?
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“The EU’s ‘green lane’ will require companies to navigate a full slate of documents and checks. Brussels remains legally in charge of huge swathes of life here and the few concessions the UK clawed back are limited, bound by numerous conditions and potentially temporary…”
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“We recognise the EU had every right to protect it's borders, and therefore recognised the right for a red lane. But the need for that red lane should not have extended to goods that will only circulate within the UK market.”
@RishiSunak
@chhcalling
@SteveBakerHW
A Northern Irish haulage boss has said that the problems posed by the Windsor Framework are more widespread than people realise
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Some of us have been saying this for years. The EU never gave a damn about the Good Friday Agreement - it was always just a cynical leverage game to sabotage Brexit and force whole U.K. alignment to EU rules…
@RishiSunak
@chhcalling
@SteveBakerFRSA
@theresa_may
@RobertBuckland
The entire purpose of the Northern Ireland protocol was to anchor the whole UK within the EU's orbit....as predicted it will be furthered under Labour with SPS deals and dynamic alignment.
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“Prime Minister, don’t sell our democratic birthright for a mess of pottage. If the deal is poor, go back to the Protocol Bill. No deal is still better than a bad one.”
Well said
@DavidGHFrost
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