Hateful speeches in House of Commons from the Tories, the #Rwanda Bill passing and people announcing their shock that #Sunak is prepared to take the legislation to it's absolute limit.
Where you not paying attention to Brandon Lewis when he said they were going to break the law in a limited and specific way in relation to NI & Brexit, to keep the same nutters happy?
Once again, the British Government proving they are worthy of the title #PerfidiousAlbion in relation to international affairs
And the British media and the majority in #England once again proving they only pay attention when it is something that affects them directly.
It can happen in Scotland/Wales and NI, no one really pays attention. When it becomes relevant to the English - then all hell breaks loose.
Fair enough but can the English Government, media and many in the country, stop pretending that they care about the Union. They don't!
If you did you would be more aware of what was happening in the rest of it!
So let's start being honest with each other. I will start - there is a shared history within these islands and on the whole it's not a good one.
Scotland/Wales and NI have always been treated as second class citizens of this union. Our voices aren't equal and we can't decide our own futures without permission from Westminster (England)
Brexit broke the final ties that bind us together, mainly because of an English Nationalist vote for a fantasy & return to Empire.
We don't want that, the
legacy of Empire is yet to be ended in the relation to the UK union.
I have friends and family in England, I wish you no harm, I hope that you can restore sanity to the politics there, for all our sakes, while we are still part of this union.
However, I just don't want to be part of the UK union any longer. I would like your influence over the place I call home gone - the British ruling classes have done enough damage. It is time to go, so we can repair it.
It is time to #Think32
NI held an election nearly two years ago.
We voted for more pro-protocol MLA'S, we voted for more MLA's who want to work together. That result was ignored by our English SoS. He has chosen to let the #DUP dictate.
He may not care about us but he has a responsibility to the people here to act in our best interests not Jeff's!
He could give our public services the pay rise they need to bring them into line with GB. He could introduce legislation in parliament to reform how
Stormont is formed but is refusing not too.
We could have a functioning government here if we had a SoS who actually paid some attention to what was happening here, instead of treading water.
I certainly didn't vote for the mess we are in now...
Plus with the joy of a PR election I voted for everyone else bar the status quo!
Why is your first take away from my toot - that it must be about me wanting more money. This isn't about who gets all the goodies. After all don't the people in NI/Scotland and Wales pay their taxes as well to the HMRC.
Plus our SoS by offering more money to the public sector here has just admitted that NI has been underfunded compared to the rest of GB.
This is about all our voices having equal importance. This is about understanding what works in Belfast might not work in
Derry never mind Manchester and Glasgow.
It is about accepting that the people in those places might actually know better than someone sitting around the table in Whitehall.
This may be about more money for the DUP, to soften their supporters when Jeff does his eventual u-turn but not everyone in NI is like the DUP.
I firmly believe that Liverpool should have more devolution as well. Why because it had become clear that those in Westminster don't give a toss about the needs those in the North of England either. They treat you like subjects the same way they treat us in NI.
I understand where you are coming from about not breaking up the UK but I think it refers more to Scotland.
Scotland gaining independence would mean the end of the union and the loss of standing on the world stage.
The Island of Ireland reuniting wouldn't see the end of the UK union.
After all many don't know we are part of the union, they think we are Ireland and the rest want to know why we are still part of it!
I believe that if there was more power devolved through out the UK - you could see support for the Union increase.
People would be happy that they their voices were being heard. Plus after Brexit, we have discovered that small/middle sized nations working together have more clout.
Yeah...they thought they were speaking for the whole country. They weren't!
If Westminster was prepared to let Scotland and Wales have more power (NI is in a mess at the moment, I don't think you can take the training wheels off just yet - we need to reform Stormont before that happens)
Then staying within the union may be a positive - but with the legacy of exceptionalism still in existence. They won't do that because we are (even the North of England) are treated as the colonies were.
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This conversation is above my head. As I don't understand how Wales & England are governed. So I will just let you fire on.
@kennybrown131 @JohnLoader6 @PGBeattie
I think it time that how the UK is governed was over hauled. Like the devolved regions - why would it not be possible for the counties of England to be given their own administrations based on the devolved model.
The country is too big for centralised government - Covid proved that.
That would make the people in those areas feel like they had a say in their area and how it was run.
@kennybrown131 @JohnLoader6 @PGBeattie
When it comes to the devolved regions - they are just slightly more powerful than local councils.
Westminster over riding Scottish legislation proves how unequal the parliaments really are.
This current arrangement is a halfway house which really isn't devolution.
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