Well written as ever Niall! I’ve always said that for Brexiteers Ireland is Britain’s Taiwan, not a real country but a renegade province that must be brought to heel and reclaimed for the motherland. The incredulity that Dublin didn’t meekly follow them out the door was so telling.

I saw something a couple of weeks ago in Cherbourg that I just wouldn't have believed possible a few years ago - 3 evening sailings that day, 1 to the UK and 2 to Ireland. Of course the town and the terminal were full of Irish cars and people.

2/2. If Scotland doesn't escape soon it will more than confirm its status as just an energy supplier and pretty holiday destination for England.

As English born and raised, in a way I can see things from both sides. As I write this Sky News are doing a piece on the coming energy price increases inc the need for Scotland to be producing energy for England. It's so blatant. 1/2

I mean why TF is Gove a Lord now? He spent Covid plotting with Cummings and grifting his sorry arse off, having already lied himself inside out over Brexit - another reason our country is in such a mess.
He gets a peerage.
We get to pay for it all.

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