My notes from yesterday's (29th Jan) public speaking event on SEZs and Freeports with @JimFunnel1 and @PlymouthGreens it was great with a very lively Q&A session.
Thanks for this neat summation. I wonder if the UK’s ruling class duopoly has been running down the decent rules obeying folks in their police and military forces (as against the multiple collaboraters known as One of the Boys gangs) for decades, in order to block any possible community rooted civil war rebellion against the rolling out of this ecocidal feudal profiteer’s dystopia. They certainly put their willing fellow lowlife UK dirty war created loyalist gangsters and their DUP/TUV political controller, here in Northern Ireland, to good use to deliver the hardest of Brexits.
Who knows, it may yet backfire on the DUP spectacularly. If there is ever to be any sort of silver lining to the nonsense of Brexit it would come in the form of Scottish independence and a reunification of Ireland. In the case of the latter I hope with all my heart it doesn't descend into a repeat of historic 'troubles' but I have faith in the younger generations in NI to see through the fog.
It really has already backfired on the DUP. Individuals locally I never would have believed would turn their backs on them have done as their Brexit behaviour showed up their political transactional treachery. Ian Paisley Junior lost his parliamentary seat at the last election. Unfortunately to an even more extremist misogynistic one man band the TUV party leader Jim Allister, but this political failure of the founder of the DUP’s son is politically significant. The ex DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson and his wife are both faciing criminal charges of incest and rape in court in March 2025 and I am sure many more will abandon British Unionism in the wake of this trial. More recently many Irish nationalists (from across the community) have admitted to voting for Brexit in order to expidite reunification having long since lost all faith in successive British or Irish governments ever delivering on their GFA (25 years and counting) legal promises of constitutional progress. I hope Scotland’s Independence movement soon recovers its political mojo. However they will have learned by now just how dark and dirty the duplicitous games that the British ruling government class will play in order to hold on to their old colonies.
Agree with all of that, but with specific reference to your last paragraph, here is the impending danger: once Freeport/SEZ licences are ratified and contracts signed, it will be legally binding. The issue there is that it will automatically preempt any ability to rejoin the EU Single Market and Customs Union for a period of 25 years! Because that's how long the licences run for. In the case of NI, this will introduce an exponential degree of complexity for any future direction. People in NI need to wake up to that threat real quick. It's a hidden and present danger.
Thanks. The Windsor Agreement copperfastened Northern Ireland’s place in the European Customs Union. This fact gifted it a unique legal protection against the Corporate City experiment in GB. Many individuals in Northern Ireland are very well versed in UK state and Unionist political shenanigans after suffering a century of their cultural treachery. It was because of this inside knowledge that so many Irish nationalists and liberals here voted for the DUP’s Brexit. We knew that as wilfully ignorant political bigots and bullies with only one political policy: maintaining a hard British imposed border in Ireland and with Conservative and Unionist party support they would deliver either a new civil war this time involving NATO or Irish reunification. The reason why it took so long for the Conservative and Unionist party to deliver Brexit is because the likes of David Frost would not take no for answer regarding the EU’s protection of Ireland’s sovereignty within its customs regulatory area and its unique post civil war partition status. Sunak delivered a de facto Irish reunification with his signing of The Windsor Agreement (2023). The title is an historical rhyming allusion to the first step toward the end of British partition in Ireland exactly 50 years previously, geographically signed just up the road from Windsor,
It was a great exposé on the extent of the deception and the fecklessness of the public bodies involved. I can now understand how these things come about, under everyone's noses but simultaneously hidden from public sight. The political class is now full on rogue.
Thanks for this neat summation. I wonder if the UK’s ruling class duopoly has been running down the decent rules obeying folks in their police and military forces (as against the multiple collaboraters known as One of the Boys gangs) for decades, in order to block any possible community rooted civil war rebellion against the rolling out of this ecocidal feudal profiteer’s dystopia. They certainly put their willing fellow lowlife UK dirty war created loyalist gangsters and their DUP/TUV political controller, here in Northern Ireland, to good use to deliver the hardest of Brexits.
Who knows, it may yet backfire on the DUP spectacularly. If there is ever to be any sort of silver lining to the nonsense of Brexit it would come in the form of Scottish independence and a reunification of Ireland. In the case of the latter I hope with all my heart it doesn't descend into a repeat of historic 'troubles' but I have faith in the younger generations in NI to see through the fog.
It really has already backfired on the DUP. Individuals locally I never would have believed would turn their backs on them have done as their Brexit behaviour showed up their political transactional treachery. Ian Paisley Junior lost his parliamentary seat at the last election. Unfortunately to an even more extremist misogynistic one man band the TUV party leader Jim Allister, but this political failure of the founder of the DUP’s son is politically significant. The ex DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson and his wife are both faciing criminal charges of incest and rape in court in March 2025 and I am sure many more will abandon British Unionism in the wake of this trial. More recently many Irish nationalists (from across the community) have admitted to voting for Brexit in order to expidite reunification having long since lost all faith in successive British or Irish governments ever delivering on their GFA (25 years and counting) legal promises of constitutional progress. I hope Scotland’s Independence movement soon recovers its political mojo. However they will have learned by now just how dark and dirty the duplicitous games that the British ruling government class will play in order to hold on to their old colonies.
Agree with all of that, but with specific reference to your last paragraph, here is the impending danger: once Freeport/SEZ licences are ratified and contracts signed, it will be legally binding. The issue there is that it will automatically preempt any ability to rejoin the EU Single Market and Customs Union for a period of 25 years! Because that's how long the licences run for. In the case of NI, this will introduce an exponential degree of complexity for any future direction. People in NI need to wake up to that threat real quick. It's a hidden and present danger.
Thanks. The Windsor Agreement copperfastened Northern Ireland’s place in the European Customs Union. This fact gifted it a unique legal protection against the Corporate City experiment in GB. Many individuals in Northern Ireland are very well versed in UK state and Unionist political shenanigans after suffering a century of their cultural treachery. It was because of this inside knowledge that so many Irish nationalists and liberals here voted for the DUP’s Brexit. We knew that as wilfully ignorant political bigots and bullies with only one political policy: maintaining a hard British imposed border in Ireland and with Conservative and Unionist party support they would deliver either a new civil war this time involving NATO or Irish reunification. The reason why it took so long for the Conservative and Unionist party to deliver Brexit is because the likes of David Frost would not take no for answer regarding the EU’s protection of Ireland’s sovereignty within its customs regulatory area and its unique post civil war partition status. Sunak delivered a de facto Irish reunification with his signing of The Windsor Agreement (2023). The title is an historical rhyming allusion to the first step toward the end of British partition in Ireland exactly 50 years previously, geographically signed just up the road from Windsor,
The Sunningdale Agreement
(1973).
One of your best summaries.
Cheers Steve
Excellent summary - if somewhat horrifying!
No wonder the bastards think they can get away with it... because they do!!!...
The nationalistically and socially outraged vote for enslavement and irrelevance...
It was a great exposé on the extent of the deception and the fecklessness of the public bodies involved. I can now understand how these things come about, under everyone's noses but simultaneously hidden from public sight. The political class is now full on rogue.