Worst geostrategic decision since Chamberlain gave up the Treaty Ports?
This probabaly seems a minor thing to Sir @Keir_Starmer but, like Gordon Brown and the gold, my guess is he will never be allowed to live this down.
Dan Boucher
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Dan Boucher
@DansBoucher
TUV/Reform UK Parliamentary Candidate for Belfast South and Mid Down, Former DUP Director of Policy and Research.
Joined February 2011
- With great sadness today I resigned from the Conservative Party + with great excitement + expectation joined the @duponline because of the threat posed to #NorthernIreland + the wider the union by #NorthernIrelandProtocol #StandingWithNorthernIreland
- Vote @WelshConserv to prevent Lab Plaid separatist coalition and preserve the union! Vote @WelshConserv to end 22 years of failed Lab govt. Time 4 Change! Inspiring stuff from @AndrewRTDavies Spring Forum
- 'It's been 8 years since Brexit yet the EU still tries to boss Britain about'
- What has become of Cross Community Consent? On 10 December all unionist MLAs voted against the imposition of the Protocol for another 4 years. On 19 December all unionist MLAs voted against the Chemical Regulation applying to NI. In both cases they have been ignored and CrossThe government has rejected a request from Northern Ireland's unionist parties to use the post-Brexit mechanism known as the Stormont brake. bbc.in/4hiccam
- Now the highest polling party has a manifesto commitment to remove the #WindsorFramework + end the humiliating partitioning of the UK. This wld re-enfranchise 1.9 million UK citizens, restore the territorial integrity of the UK + make a trade deal with @realDonaldTrump possible🚨Reform LEADS for the first time in a national opinion poll. This is just the beginning.
- To my friends in GB, 'please don't look the other way'. Please vote for restoration of full citizenship + democracy in Northern Ireland + removal of Windsor Framework on 4 July. Let's Get Brexit Done for the whole country. Let's Make it Our Independence Day. Vote @reformparty_ukOur South Belfast and Mid Down candidate Dr Dan Boucher highlights the problems with the Protocol and the issues it raises for all of the UK. Vote TUV - Reform UK on 4th July.
00:00 - As someone who has lived around 25 years in England, 20 years in Wales and is now living in Northern Ireland, the truth is that every part of the UK is like the rest of the UK, but completely different - That is the strength of the union. In Wales, for example, 28% of peopleNorthern Ireland is like the rest of the UK, but "completely different", says Northern Ireland Secretary @hilarybennmp bbc.in/3DzNow6
- Why rather than obliging us to live with the Northern Ireland Protocol, international law actually creates an imperative for urgently removing it @ArleneFosterUK @KilclooneyJohn @CatharineHoey @JamieBrysonCPNI @JimAllister @JamieBrysonCPNI
- Read full @JimAllister statement on suspension of DAERA checks: “While I am, of course delighted that DAERA has temporarily suspended checks on lorries moving goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, arising from Holyhead being out of action, it is incumbent upon me toTwo unionist politicians have lambasted the European Union after checks were suspended on goods travelling from Great Britain to Northern Ireland newsletter.co.uk/news/national/…
- Extraordinary! If @elonmusk donates to @reformparty_uk it will resource politicians seeking to influence how I use my vote but, crucially, it will not deprive me of my vote. And yet last week @allianceparty MLAs effectively voted to renounce my vote and that of all the people ofOur democracy is under threat. That’s why @SorchaEastwood has tabled a motion in Parliament to push the Labour Government to urgently reform electoral law and stop overseas billionaires undermining our elections.
- In todays Parl-News article @JimAllister explains why the #WindsorFramework must be replaced by #MutualEnforcement because it is failing, not just because the entire unionist community objects to it, but also because it is now failing in its own terms.
- 'In all this the Windsor Framework actually generates one of the most audacious expressions of spillover by disenfranchising the people of Northern Ireland so we can no longer stand for election to make the laws to which we are subject in a staggering 300 areas, and then giving
- “ So, there can be a border across the island of Ireland after all because when you leave Northern Ireland for the Republic you are required to jump through additional hurdles. Well, in that case why do UK citizens moving with their pets from one part of the UK to another part ofComplicated new rules about the movement of pets in and out of Northern Ireland highlight the “absurdity” of the Irish Sea border, according to the TUV – as new legislation suggests dog and cat owners will face restrictions on moving their pets both wit... newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/…
