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A united Ireland, a matter when not if? – politicalbetting.com
A united Ireland, a matter when not if? – politicalbetting.com
Support for reunification in Northern Ireland is the highest on record, according to the Northern Ireland Life & Times Survey.Remain part of the UK: 45% (-28 since 2010)Reunify with Ireland: 32% (+16)Don't know: 14% (+8)Independence: 7% (+4)
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One of the biggest opportunities we missed when we left the EU was getting rid of the economic and diplomatic blight that is Northern Ireland.
Of course the current government would doubtless insist on paying trillions to the Republic to take it, but hopefully we'd have a more competent one in power by then.
I'm sure it was someone on here, possibly RCS, who said an independent Northern Ireland is totally economically unviable - it'd just become a failed state.
(Now, an 'independent' Northern Ireland in the EU was believed to be manageable, but whether that is possible is another thing).
A British schoolgirl was groomed and radicalised by an American white supremacist – and failed by those who were supposed to protect her
In the autumn of 2020, Rhianan Rudd gouged a swastika into her forehead in a declaration of her love for Adolf Hitler.
She had just turned 15. A little more than a year later, she killed herself in a children’s home in Nottinghamshire while in the care of her local authority.
... Hers was a disturbing and disturbed life; a life which presents a chilling insight into the ease with which a teenager can be sucked into the hate-filled world of white supremacists.
By the time of her death at the age of 16, Rhianan was an adherent of two far-Right terror groups: the Atomwaffen Division and the Order of Nine Angles, a bizarre neo-Nazi satanist cult. The youngest girl in the UK ever to be charged with terrorist offences, she had planned to build a bomb and blow up a synagogue.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/25/rhianan-rudd-british-female-terror-suspect/ (£££)
See also the grooming of Shemima Begum, a less sympathetic figure, and also the Prevent guidelines on the far right that some have been railing against in the last day or two.
There is a significant difference.
Those two presidents sent in troops over the heads of the state to protect people against the illegal racism in those states. To protect people against racist law enforcement beating them and worse.
In California Trump is sending in the racists to abduct and terrorise and beat them up and worse. He’s trying to claim that his ICE thugs are the law - but the courts keep ruling they are not.
If people want to support black-shirted SA cosplay thugs riding into town abducting people at random off the streets and now commuting violence against people’s first amendment rights then man up and say so openly.
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Ep24 previews Canada, how the season stands heading into it, plus the possibility Stroll might not race.
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Transcript: https://morrisf1.blogspot.com/2025/06/f1-2025-canadian-grand-prix-preview.html
*This is in no way legally binding.
Stupid are the people who insisted it wasn’t a problem, not our responsibility, just ignore it, belittle it - or as we saw with that wazzock Boris Johnson not understand it and lie about it.
Who is worse? The idiot savant who lies his way out of trouble? Or the idiots who think he is a genius?
Think these will supersede any thoughts of “reunification”
I can't read the article: what would the article's writers have done differently?
(*) This might well be wrong...
The Telegraph is having fun this morning placing Yvette on resignation watch after Rachel refused to buy her any new rozzers. I very much doubt she has the you know what though. All not well in paradise though
https://www.9news.com.au/national/lauren-tomasi-shot-in-los-angeles-protests-anthony-albanese-responds/428fdfbe-4358-4ba0-8414-40cc4e0254dd
"World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says"
It probably needs a massive political and/or economic crisis in the rump state of England, Wales and the Isle of Wight to trigger it in the next couple of decades though. So here's hoping.
The earlier examples did.
It's not complicated.
Left - Trans, abortion, illegal immigrants
Right - Jesus, babies, guns
Why are this generation of politicians so stupid? Does an underfunded police and criminal justice system mean less crime? Or more crime? We know it's the latter and crime costs money.
Where do you keep your toaster?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rJxC6QppdP4
“There are 2 problems with that: I’ve got the most land-locked constituency in the UK & I’m afraid of flying”
Cecil Parkinson: “Excellent- you’ll bring an open mind to this subject”
https://x.com/JAHeale/status/1932122684189782239
In early 2018, PM Theresa May called me in to make me transport minister.
I replied:
🚘I couldn’t drive
🚲 I couldn’t ride a bike
✈️ Worst, I was one of 4 Government Ministers given a derogation to oppose Government policy on Heathrow expansion - her flagship transport policy!
Having explained these matters, the PM’s conclusion was
“Thank you, Greg. I would like you to remain at the Department for International Trade.”
The key thing in reshuffles is to be ready for any mad suggestions. Fortunately, on this occasion, the Whips Office tipped me off.
https://x.com/GregHands/status/1932323602080407571
I had a similar experience in my home town - efforts to make the High Street a bit more attracting by widening pavements and allowing cafes to put tables out, cycle paths out to the new estates etc are always met with opposition by local businesses. And then the cash just goes somewhere else...
After a Supreme Court decision was defied by the state governor.
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/executive-order-10730
Trump has not done that.
And has no such basis to do so anyway.
Guns are for 'people like me', taxes are for 'people like you'.
So by definition, there can't be overreach.
LabCon - a waste of time flipping between them.
BTW, the best solution by far, though tragically impossible, is a United Kingdom of Ireland and Great Britain to be called the United Kingdom of the Irish and British Isles, with parliament alternating annually between London and Dublin. Dissolve the NI problem by enlarging, not splitting.
They don't seem to know what they want to achieve and equally don't know how to do anything properly.
Everyone on here will know how I would have sorted out tax. but then the other half is spending and you can't police the country on the goodwill of police officers - it costs money.
So why is Ed funding new build CCGT power plants and blue hydrogen plants that will consume natural gas for decades to come?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPxGf6plvAo
Ten minutes of George Osborne and Ed Balls discussing the politics and logistics of Boris and Jenrick.
In the present another frankly mad SC decision on May 30th let Trump's administration revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants living in the United States. The court put on hold U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani's order halting the administration's move to end the immigration "parole" granted to 532,000 of these migrants by Trump's predecessor Joe Biden, potentially exposing many of them to rapid removal, while a legal challenge plays out in lower courts.
It was an appalling decision allowing people to be extradited before their rights are determined by the courts but many in the southern States felt the same about Brown v Board of Education which led to the Little Rock crisis. The ICE officers are seeking to enforce the law as determined by the SC.
The economics look dreadful, and as it stands it is not a bad compromise. The nationalists retain their cause without actually having to implement it, plus they can point to successive actions by HMG which provide them concessions so for all the world the North looks and feels to be an ever more closely integrated unit with the South, while the Unionists can take comfort in the fact that it hasn't happened yet.
https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/harland-and-wolff-and-the-partition-of-ulster.html
They are against the government until they are in favour of it. Look at the government men smashing their way into churches and courtrooms to abduct people without charge - aren't they beautiful? Well I assume they are beautiful under their black fatigues and masks - see how they cosplay real Patriot Muricans in this way?
Black Shirted shock troops is the hallmark of any fascist dictator. And we know that Trump loves the Good Ol Boys who stood up for him in the Capitol. Why not just merge the two and have Trump Guardians and their AR15s and their small penises stationed in every woke city to shoot anyone who looks funny?
It's the American way.
But we're a long way from any vote. And TSE's chart shows that the trend can change direction.
Tony Blair - a political titan of his age. Completely reshaped his party and won three elections with two of them landslides. Not brought back as leader despite the decline after he stepped down.
Margaret Thatcher - a political titan of several ages. Completely reshaped her party and won three elections with two of them landslides. Not brought back as leader despite the decline after she stepped down.
Boris Johnson - the self-titled World King. Bolloxed up Brexit by accidentally winning it (crumbs!), reduced his party to a minority by sacking his own MPs as not being Conservative enough (including Ken Clarke and Churchill's grandson - cripes!). Won an election with a chunky majority and then proceeded to not actually have a plan for what to do in government. Hounded out of office for one scandal too far.
If they bring him back then they truly are finished. Do it. DO IT!
Other pathways are possible that do not lock in future demand for natural gas (from Qatar!), but have been rejected.
This party has to be put out of its misery.
Farage getting quite an outing here in Wales for reopening all the Welsh superpits and both Port Talbot blast furnaces yesterday.
It was a busy day and the Welsh broadcast media are grateful for his service.
Beat that Boris!
Until we get many more renewables, and orders of magnitude more storage, I cannot see an option other than building new CCGT (often replacing existing ones).
And in related news:
"Sizewell C nuclear plant gets go-ahead with £14.2bn of government funding"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3v50qy35pwt
"I will cut your grocery bills, reduce inflation, end the Ukraine war - all in my first 24 hours. If you believe enough to vote for me..."
So perhaps they should go for UDI and have the King as their head of state.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake's_Plate_of_Brass
Defending Boris slightly, I think that's unfair. He won the GE in December 2019, and had only three months before the Covid nightmare derailed his government - as it derailed every government. He definitely had a plan; we will never know whether that plan would have worked, as he had virtually no time to deliver it.
(AFAICS it was in Bolsover and Chesterfield - so Derby CC as service provider, and only the referral children's home was Notts - so strange geography from the Telegraph.)
So mum was naive, it's about unwise contact with prisoners, consequences / bounce back from broken relationships, social media, complexity of cases, and perhaps availability of resources for services to catch things early.
It's a bizarre story.
How do we take into account new interconnectors? We're currently importing more from France than we are generating from gas.
Little Rock was covered by one of those exceptions. The law said that the military could be used to enforce civil rights laws and Little Rock was covered by that.
If the Insurrection Act is invoked, then its covered too.
The problem is that Trump isn't following the law, unlike Eisenhower.
This is how news works, but it is impossible to believe there isn't also a middle ground of 'this is OK' which is completely unmentioned.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clynq459wxgo
“That which is pleasing to the Prince has the force of law.”
Morning PB.
Bozo coming back.
Yes, that would be fitting for morally confused, compromised times.
It would send a clearer message to the world that Britain is still in a mess.