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Nancy Pelosi comes out strongly in favour of the Good Friday Agreement.

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Pelosi warns UK over any weakening of Good Friday Agreement

Nancy Pelosi said the Good Friday Agreement could not be 'bargained away'

Nancy Pelosi said the Good Friday Agreement could not be 'bargained away'

US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi has said there would be no chance of a US-UK trade deal if there was any weakening of the Good Friday Agreement.

Speaking at the London School of Economics this evening, Ms Peolsi said the Good Friday Agreement was a model that could not be "bargained away in another agreement".

She said passing a trade bill in the US Congress would be very hard and was "no given".

She added: "First of all it is very hard to pass a trade bill in the Congress of the United States, so it's no given anyway.

"But if there were any weakening of the Good Friday accords there would be no chance whatsoever, a non-starter for a US-UK trade agreement.

"The Good Friday accords ended 700 years of conflict.

"This is not a treaty only, it's an ideal, it's a value, it's something that's a model to the world, something that we all take pride in.

"It was a model and other people have used it as a model and we don't want that model to be something that can be bargained away in another agreement."

Ms Pelosi said she had met Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and senior Tories, and had spoken to Prime Minister Theresa May on the phone.

She said, "we made it clear to all that if there's any harm to the Good Friday accords - no trade treaty."

 

 

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29 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

That "EU Settlement Scheme" TV ad - nothing to worry about, but you must apply for the appropriate papers - has a horrible Nazi feel about it. 

Papieren, bitte?

If you are not guilty, you have nothing to hide.

But you, my friend, you seem to be somewhat...evasive...about producing your papieren.

Do you have something to hide?  Would you step over here, please?

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Don't worry everyone, the country's fine again.

(actually, not fine but not quite as depressing reading as the previous post. It's almost as polls can be geared to create hugely different results depending on the question)

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I like the frequency with which 'britain elects' chops the SNP, Plaid, Sinn Fein, DUP. UUP off the bottom of the polls.

Often, the info is there in the original source, but somehow 'britain elects' doesn't bother with it.

That reporting suggests SNP etc are due to lose half their representation.

Crap.

 

 

 

 

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Elizabeth Denham told MPs her investigation into the Mainstream Network campaign group had raised concerns about how valuable voter data was being collected by the under-the-radar campaign, potentially in breach of data protection rules.

Mainstream Network was designed to look like a grassroots campaign and give the impression that the British public was rising up in support of a no-deal exit from the European Union, by encouraging the public to flood MPs’ inboxes with emails demanding one.

However, the Guardian has revealed that the supposedly independent pro-Brexit Facebook pages were part of a series overseen by Crosby’s company, CTF Partners. They were backed by up to £1m in online advertising, paid for by an unknown source in a bid to push MPs to reject Theresa May’s Brexit deal.

“Part of our investigation is looking at individuals associated with that campaign and their relationship with others,” Denham told MPs, as she gave an update on her investigation. “It’s all part of following through on what is quite a complex investigation.”

 

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Tax swerving, suited pieces of shit pushing the pleb's buttons.

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27 minutes ago, NurembergVillan said:

Can't recall if I've posted this before or not.  Absolutely runs rings round the lad...

 

I have no doubt that people like this guy genuinely don't believe themselves to be racist. Problem is when you talk to them about which immigrants they actually want to let in under their fantasy system they'll always list commonwealth countries like "Australia, Canada, NZ"...When you mention that most of the commonwealth countries are populated by people of a non-white complexion all of a sudden they're not so keen...

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26 minutes ago, desensitized43 said:

I have no doubt that people like this guy genuinely don't believe themselves to be racist. Problem is when you talk to them about which immigrants they actually want to let in under their fantasy system they'll always list commonwealth countries like "Australia, Canada, NZ"...When you mention that most of the commonwealth countries are populated by people of a non-white complexion all of a sudden they're not so keen...

I'm still baffled by anyone who thinks we can take legislative measures to stop illegal immigrants.

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5 minutes ago, NurembergVillan said:

I'm still baffled by anyone who thinks we can take legislative measures to stop illegal immigrants.

Obviously - Make illegal immigration illegal, and I suppose if that's not strict enough, make illegal illegal immigration illegal. And being really really tough #takebackcontrol we could be even stricter still and we could make illegal illegal illegal immigration illegal, punishable by law. Then there'd only be the white ones and they're mostly alright. #logic. #brexit. #notracialist

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