A significant majority of unionists will never accept the protocol/WF, or vote for those who do!
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.@EoinLenihan Dr. Eoin Lenihan did a good job at the EU last week.
✢ The topic was on the likelihood of civil war breaking out in European countries. 👇
Ask SF what they have delivered for hard pressed families across N Ireland, from any background. Its easy to hide behind a slogan & a campaign against their protestant neighbours. What they really want is their over inflated saleries, gold plated pensions & fools to vote for it.
Sinn Féin is standing a massive 40 Assembly candidates right across the North.
Sinn Féin is the only party with the strength to face down those who want to drag us backwards.
May’s election is the most important in generations.
It will help define the future for our children and grandchildren.
Our message is clear:
There will be no going back. Only forward.
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Only an act of God saved dozens of children from death that Sunday from the IRA.
Hard to believe that 3/4 of Irish nationalists in Northern Ireland now support a party that says there was no alternative to planting bombs like this.
#OnThisDay in 1987 the IRA planned to bomb the Remembrance service in Tullyhommon on Fermanagh border with the Republic. The bomb was 4 times the size of the Enniskillen device. The parade was largely made up of children. It failed to go off & was made safe by bomb disposal #OTD
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Promising the earth and delivering bugger all!
Jumping on every woke bandwagon out there!
Sanctimonious, self righteous and holier than thou!
Thank goodness the electorate are starting to see through their nonsense!
The LucidTalk poll also suggests the Alliance party is in a downward spiral - the party could potentially lose up half its Assembly seats says @SuzyJourno
More details and analysis on Sunday Politics
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Labour put our troops into Northern Ireland on 14th August 1969. They stayed for 38 years. Operation Banner.
Over 300,000 served.
Now a Labour government has ripped up the safeguards for our veterans and started the witch hunt all over again.
These men are pensioners now. They should be building greenhouses, looking forward to the grandkids coming round not stomach churning legal letters landing on the mat that will drag them through the courts for years for doing their duty.
Even the generals are saying it.
9 former 4-star generals told Parliament this Bill is "morally incoherent" and a "direct threat to national security."
7 former senior SAS officers wrote in The Telegraph: "In this Troubles Bill, the Government is complicit in this war on our Armed Forces."
The SAS Regimental Association, SBS and SRR have never come out together before, now they have. They say they will take the Government to court to protect their own.
If the SAS says recruitment is collapsing because no one will join if their back isn't covered, we should listen.
Stop using our veterans for political currency
Back off!
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In respectful remembrance of those officers and men of the Irish Constabularies who lost their lives on duty, or whilst on service with the armed forces.
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The Bank Governor said private sector earnings growing at 3% was still a worry but the Bank did not concern itself with public sector earnings growing at 6.3%. Why not? Public sector earnings are pushing up inflation, private sector lagging inflation mean real wage cuts.
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No going back, NI Unionists will not be second class citizens.
50:50 recruitment in Catholic maintained sector schools.
90:10 recruitment in Newry & Mourne is no longer acceptable.
Unionists will not tolerate this supremacism or second class citizenship.
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Ulster Unionist Party Leader Jon Burrows MLA has rejected reported comments by Chief Constable Jon Boutcher describing remaining Provisional IRA members as older people who seek to cause no harm. He said the organisation’s continued existence is “anathema to democracy” and a latent threat to the people of Northern Ireland.
Ulster Unionist Party Leader Jon Burrows MLA said:
“If the Chief Constable’s comments have been reported accurately, and he has characterised remaining Provisional IRA members as older people who seek to cause no harm to Northern Ireland, then I take an entirely different view.
“The Provisional IRA is a proscribed terrorist organisation. Membership is a serious criminal offence. Age does not make membership harmless, nor the organisation’s continued existence acceptable.
“Its very existence is anathema to democracy and, in my view, represents a latent threat to the people of Northern Ireland. Its name carries menace for those who suffered at its hands. There is no legitimate, benign or peaceful justification for maintaining a terrorist organisation.
“What purpose do its remaining structures serve? If they exist to exercise control over Sinn Féin, that raises profoundly disturbing questions for democracy. If they exist to preserve the option of rebuilding a capacity for violence, that is equally disturbing. The public deserves answers.
“The 2015 security assessment found that the Provisional IRA retained structures and access to some weapons. It also assessed its leadership as committed to peaceful political means. That assessment does not make the organisation’s continued existence acceptable.
“On 16th October, I wrote to the Secretary of State requesting a fresh, comprehensive security assessment of all paramilitary organisations, including the Provisional IRA. I welcome the DUP’s subsequent support for that call. The Secretary of State should now commission and publish an updated assessment.
“There is also a legitimate question for the Chief Constable: what investigative strategy does the PSNI have to identify those who remain members of the Provisional IRA, investigate suspected membership offences and, where the evidence supports it, make arrests and submit files to the Public Prosecution Service?
“The standard must be the same for every terrorist organisation, republican or loyalist. All should disband, and the law must be enforced without fear or favour.”
Well @naomi_long @ClaireHanna @moneillsf you championed the protocol and demanded rigorous implementation. Will you apologise to the businesses and people whose livelihoods have been impacted.
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Yesterday MLAs triggered the Stormont Brake over the application to Northern Ireland of the EU's new Union Customs Code, Regulation (EU) 2026/2108. The new code redefines the terms of the customs border that has cut the UK in two.
This is only the second time the Stormont Brake mechanism has been triggered.
Today Ulster Unionist Party leader Jon Burrows MLA and TUV leader Jim Allister KC MP issued statements, together with Peter Summerton, Chair of the Inter-Trade UK Business Association (ITUKBA).
Jon Burrows MLA, Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, said:
“The Ulster Unionist Party has been raising very real concerns about the negative consequences of the EU’s new Union Customs Code for well over a year. That is why we are working with other unionists to pull the Stormont Brake.
“At the recent meeting of the Windsor Framework Democratic Scrutiny Committee, members received very clear advice that the Union Customs Code is a significant change to the existing rules and regulations. That is an understatement. The new code, which Northern Ireland will be regulated by, fundamentally deepens the divergence between ourselves and the rest of our nation.
“It will mean substantially more bureaucracy, more regulation, new digital labelling and much more. We were also told that within our part of the United Kingdom, EU customs law now has primacy. This does no one any good, and that is why the Ulster Unionist Party is calling on the Secretary of State and the UK Government to operate the Stormont Brake and support Northern Ireland businesses.”
Jim Allister KC MP, Leader of the TUV, said:
“It is absolutely right that all unionists come together to pull the brake on EU Regulation 2026/2108. This legislation does not simply continue the customs border. It makes the border more disruptive in a way that will have a permanent negative effect that is likely to persist.
“In this context it is extraordinary to witness the UK Government simultaneously telling the people of GB that it is imperative to move the SPS border between GB and other countries to assist trade, even as it welcomes the renewed division of the United Kingdom by an international customs border cutting our country in two. This is an intolerable situation that cannot be allowed to continue.”
Peter Summerton, Chair of the Inter-Trade UK Business Association, said:
“The impact of imposing a customs border within a domestic supply chain under EU Regulation 2013/952 inevitably caused significant constraints on the supply chain between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Department for the Economy has acknowledged and reported on this. Many businesses have simply ceased trading with Northern Ireland.
“The new Customs Code applied in EU Regulation 2016/2108 is plainly worse. It will lead to a further deterioration in GB–NI trade and increase trade diversion, distorting natural commercial activity. This is the opposite of the stated intention of the Windsor Framework, so it is essential that the assurances given to business in the Framework are enacted.
“The Secretary of State must apply the brake to prevent further distortion to the market. Effective trading between GB and NI is in the best interests of everyone in Northern Ireland, and ITUKBA calls on all elected representatives to support the application of the safeguards.”
The notification to pull the Brake has been lodged with the Assembly Speaker, who must now send it to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. The Secretary of State then decides whether the legal conditions for applying the Brake have been met.
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Man who few weeks ago was moaning in English, about millions of tax payers money being wasted on translation services
says what?
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The Bank of England has raised interest rates to 4%, supposedly to tackle inflation.
There is just one problem with this decision. The Bank knows that much of the inflation we are suffering is being driven by rising oil and energy prices, largely resulting from conflict in the Middle East.
It also knows that raising interest rates cannot reduce those prices.
So why is it doing this?
The answer is that the Bank believes it must suppress demand elsewhere in the economy to compensate for rising energy costs.
In other words, it is deliberately making mortgages more expensive, increasing business borrowing costs, discouraging investment and reducing household spending power.
And all this when people are already struggling with higher energy bills. That is problem number one.
There is, however, another problem. Higher interest rates increase costs for businesses, which can then feed through into higher prices. They can, in that case, add to inflation rather than reduce it.
The Bank is imposing economic pain to address a problem its chosen policy cannot directly solve.
That is not sound economic management. It is the consequence of an economic dogma that refuses to recognise the difference between inflation caused by excessive demand and inflation caused by supply shocks.
When will we learn?
This is the nonsense we pay through the nose for every day. Hours of other politicians and probably legions of civil servants involved. How much did this cost to research, develop and then draft.
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Peadar has an opportunity to speak in the Dáil every day in Irish - they have translation services.
He chooses to speak in English instead.
Northerners' taxes are being used to fund the Aontú leader's political stunt.
Probably a modern version of Socrates, but very relevant.
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Maybe the SDLP or SF councilors in Derry City and Strabane District Council who voted to reject a job fair that included the army will come and defuse or remove any munitions.
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Security alert on the Portglenone Rd area of Randalstown. Road closures were in place but some may remain. Appears to be a find of an historic munitions stash. Updates will be made if and when they come in. @PoliceServiceNI @PSNIANDistrict
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The BBC has learnt nothing from its open bias to the Remain campaign in 2016. Now gearing up to lead the fan base for the Reset No coverage of the EUs attack on the constitution of Poland @DefundBBC
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Thank you for the question Mr Coghlan, I’ll tell you what I think in no uncertain terms.
1. The IRA went on to the streets with the sole intention to murder, whilst the British soldier was there to prevent murder and keep the peace.
2. The Republic of Ireland was criminally complicit during the Troubles.
3. The IRA and Sinn Fein must never be given the chance to rewrite history.
4. You’re correct that only new and compelling evidence is required but after the passage of decades that’s most unlikely.
5. If the Troubles Bill goes ahead the process of further investigations will be the punishment.
6. It’s most unlikely that the Bill will facilitate the prosecution of IRA terrorists due to the fact they have no records.
7. The Blair letters of comfort helped the peace process but our soldiers were thrown to the wolves!
8. It’s difficult to understand why Veteran Labour MPs voted for the Bill or only abstained.
9. If the British Army had not been deployed to NI, a full blown civil would’ve ensued.
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Great to hear @_Chris_Coghlan standing up for the SAS and UKSF in the House of Parliament. Not just as an MP, but as a reserve soldier. This constant lawfare is eroding the morale of the Special Forces and the greater @BritishArmy What do you think?