Watch Westminster’s Ulster Border Debate – 22/2

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On Monday 22 February the Petitions Committee will hold a virtual e-petition session to discuss the movement of goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

MPs will discuss the issue in light of the petition calling for the Government to remove barriers to trade within the United Kingdom.

A Minister will respond for the Government.

Watch live from 4.30pm on Monday 22 February:
https://youtu.be/1Yntjci_9BQ

Petition sessions and debates are an opportunity for MPs to discuss the important issues raised by petitions, however they cannot directly change the law or result in a vote to implement the request of the petition.

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OKAY.

It’s just a wee talk.

But let’s listen in on them just the same.

Article 16? Time For UK To Use It!

How many of you knew about that hitherto obscure Article 16 which Kaiserin Ursula invoked, then ‘unvoked’ so quickly?

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I didn’t.

But now it’s out in the open…

….like Hope escaping from Pandora’s Box, and here are a couple of reasons that Britain should make good use of it.

Eight days for carrots to get to Belfast with complex Brexit checks
A day at a frozen food transport firm in Northern Ireland exposes the obstacles to moving goods across the Irish Sea

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/31/eight-days-for-carrots-to-get-to-belfast-with-complex-brexit-checks

Johnsons could continue to sell in Northern Ireland if it used concrete or plastic to keep plants from touching the soil but, says Jonathan Whittemore, the firm’s head of production, that would mean a “complete change” in its processes…

https://www.economist.com/britain/2021/01/30/absurdities-on-the-border-between-great-britain-and-northern-ireland

This is looney-tunes stuff.

Yet another opportunity for The Jellyfish to grow a backbone…

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…and ACT, by means of Article 16, to restore sanity – and sovereignty! – throughout the United Kingdom.

 

Kennedy Poll Lead? Because He’ll Never Let You Drown – Oops -Down?

I see another scion of an ill-starred dynasty is hoping to win a place in the United States Senate.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/kennedy-restoration-coming-in-camelot

Though he is not a descendant of the legendary Chappaquiddick Girl-Drowner…

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…Joe Kennedy has some policy similarities to that unlamented Sinn Fein fan….

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Which one was saying ‘I’ve killed more women than you, buddy!’

 Mary Jo Kopechne for the Ten-Dollar-Bill?

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…most notably an arrogant propensity for poking his arrogant snout into UK internal affairs.

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Joe Kennedy was one of three uppity sticky-beaks who insolently interfered in the last British general election…

…with a letter to all three Westminster party leaders which ‘urged all three political parties to demonstrate “continued commitment to an open Irish border”, regardless of the outcome of the election..

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/us-congressmen-urge-uk-leaders-to-uphold-belfast-agreement-1.4112585

This new ‘Camelot’ sticky-beak is of course running in a state which is populated by large numbers of morally crippled people….

Is All Massachusetts Maladjusted? 

…so he might well win.

Sad, really.

‘Re-Unification?’ Don’t Hold Yer Breath, Senator Daly!

If you have read The Times this week, you will be aware that a prominent member of one of Eire’s major political parties has told the expansionist element in his country that “Ireland should heed the lessons of Brexit and prepare for reunification before any referendum…”

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By ‘Ireland,’ one assumes, he is referring to Eire, because ‘Ireland’ is a mere geographical expression, an island on which dwell two distinct nations, neither of whom has any right to aspire to absorb the other by any kind of annexation, by paramilitary coercion…

…or by ‘border poll.’

I know I have said this all before, but there are still too many mainland Brits insufficiently acquainted with the historical and/or ethnic realities, who may be susceptible to mystification by constant misuse of the name ‘Ireland…’

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…into thinking that the proximity of the two peoples, each with a right to self-determination, allows for absorption of the smaller by the larger into a republic repugnant to that smaller nation’s sense of national identity.

‘Re-unification?’ The island was only united politically under rule from London! Bet that’s not what’s being discussed in Dublin!

Clearly, Fianna Fail Senator Mark Daly has forgotten the lines of one of his nation’s songs, about fighting so that ‘small nations might be free!’

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Mark Daly

His warning to Varadkar that ‘ministers were acting recklessly by failing to hold risk assessments’ may sound like practical advice but in fact it’s just offensive to the British people of Ulster.

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Election Post-Mortem 3. Alliance Party Of Eire?

’The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland?’

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Only till it no longer suits their political convenience!

We heard that awkward admission last night, when their new MP, Steve Ferry, did his mealy-mouth mumbling best to avoid a question on the treason option, the prospect of another ‘border poll’ going the wrong way.

Stephen Ferry, MP

…but finally responded to a BBC reporter.

”If there’s a border poll, we’ll have to see…”

So much for those two words, ‘Northern Ireland,’ carefully designed when that party was formed, to gull patriots into believing the Alliance Party were not into deals with treason…

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….not out to deny British Ulsterfolk their self-evident right to self-determination.

It goes without saying that if, by over-breeding and ethnic cleansing, the Enemy Within were to gain a plurality of votes in any such poll, a re-delineation of the border would become necessary, along with population transfers…

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…republicans in Belfast removed en masse to the damnable republic they say they are true to.

And if that solution were not adopted, if it were said by either government, London and/or Dublin, that Ulster in its entirety were up for annexation y our ancestral enemies…

…then armed resistance would be justified, and it would be the right and the duty of British patriots on the mainland and elsewhere to assist loyalist resistance, from each according to his or her ability or means.

Anybody whose response to that scenario is to say “we’ll need to see” is a knave – or in good old-fashioned Ulster talk, a Lundy.

Unlike much of the rest of the UK, elections in Ulster have always, admirably, been fought on issues of principle –

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 – ‘we are who we are, and what we have, we hold.’ –

Encouragingly, this past election on the mainland, and the standard of debate in the months beforehand, was to some extent a welcome improvement. One hopes that will continue to improve!

 

Nobody with any sense of national identity should allow themselves to be distracted by diversionary rhetoric about socio-economic matters.

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Some in Ulster seem to want to encourage such an unwholesome development, the APNI being an obvious culprit.

No loyal citizen should give them the time of day.

 

M-end-A-cit-Y = Tory Brexit Sell-Out!

While we watch the sheep bleating their chorus of approval at the Conservative Party Conference…

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…which, by the way, is even more stage-managed than such gatherings were in the past, when I lived in the UK, nowadays with no powers at all for the assembled ‘representatives’ of the dwindling membership to decide ‘their’ party’s policies…

…we read that Theresa The Appeaser is deliberately keeping them in the dark about her latest betrayal, a scheme to retreat even further in the face of the Brussels Empire’s arrogance.

Ulster is the pawn she’s preparing to sacrifice in her sleazy back-door deal…

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-01/u-k-is-said-to-plan-brexit-compromise-on-irish-border-rules

…in an almost uncanny echo of Kipling’s verses about the back-stabbing of our kin across the water in 1912.

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Before an Empire’s eyes, the traitor claims her price.

What need of further lies. We are the sacrifice!

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…such a craven retreat that she has neither the courage nor the integrity to reveal it before even such a docile audience, for fear they will display their dismay and denounce the vile woman’s treachery.