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@Mr_Scott_Cheggs Yup, used to live there, great place. Much friendlier than the racist bits of England.

@HunterNorrie One reason is that Scotland has not invested properly in container ports so far too much stuff is lorried in from Southampton or Felixstowe.

Cork where miles and miles of sea containers from Europe enter. Fresh Italian tomatoes, French cheese and loads of people from Europe enjoying each other's company. Why was Scotland denied this?

@timmckane What never gets said is that Ulster was always a place of refuge - Gallowglass, Covenanter, Hugenots, Moravians .... Too many people just want to control small communities, that's getting diluted and it's a very good thing.

Walking around Belfast in 2025 is a totally different experience from even 30 years ago. We are becoming, slowly, a multicultural diverse city. That people from other places feel comfortable living here is to our credit. Of course there will be naysayers but they are a minority.

@J4m35c4mpb3ll I think we should only let people into Scotland and Northern Ireland who can actually pronounce the letter R.

So does that mean all the carpetbaggers who stand in Scottish constituencies should learn to speak, read & write in Scots? Sit down Rupert.

@implausibleblog There is only going to be a limited quota of beef going in each direction so it'll probably be top end stuff - free ranched Texas longhorn not the maximum cruelty maximum drugs Kansas City feedlot stuff, which nobody in the UK will want.

Howard Lutnick, "We've opened up new market access.. Beef.. All the agricultural products" BBC, "You mentioned beef exports, the UK currently doesn't accept American beef because of food standards" President Trump, "The UK will take what it wants.. We're heading towards your system with no chemicals" US Secretary of State for Agriculture Brooke Rollins, "This is going to exponentially increase our beef exports" "To be very clear, American beef is the safest, the best quality, and the crown jewel for American agricultural for the world" "The US agriculture industry has been treated unfairly" President Trump, "They say our agriculture is second to none, people will have options, choice, they'll have more of it"

So Starmer has done a deal with the US to lower tariffs on... stuff the UK won't buy. Like tasteless beef, and cars that don't fit into our car parks. Clever.

@BladeoftheS Refugees have to leave the country they live in otherwise they are probably going to get killed. They have skills and it is utter madness stopping them working when we give them proper shelter in this country.

Asylum Seekers can't claim benefits, they can't get a house, they can't work. They are forced into a hovel and given £7 a day to live on. Can you live on £7 a day?

@KevinPMeagher Doesn't anyone tell this guy that if he's saying he has the power and knowledge of God he's committing blasphemy?

'A Free Presbyterian minister in Co Down has said that he makes no apology for stating that Pope Francis “was most certainly an antichrist.' An undiluted slug of the kind of religious quackery that fuelled the Troubles. Will the DUP denounce him? irishnews.com/news/northern-…

@IndyAsapScot Um, the lazy sods can't even build a pipeline to Keilder water (which is underused) so going another 150 miles to Loch Katrine simply isn't going to happen.

They are coming for our Water - will you let them take it?

@CharlieCurrie12 No it wouldn't because you'd have a load of Protestant despots and drug dealers terrorising the population. Which would be very small because anyone normal would clear out.

NI would be a great place to live if no one here embraced any sort of Irish culture, SF did not exist, only Unionists were permitted to vote, a hard border was in place, Nationalists were confined to low-paid jobs & Catholics born here had to be sterilised. Anything else?

@VigilantFox What he's done is what the EU did 25 years ago. For good reason.

RFK Jr. just blew the lid off one of the food industry’s dirtiest secrets. What he told his team before facing the food execs left the entire HHS headquarters stunned. If you watch one thing today, make it this moment. MAHA just leveled up. 🧵THREAD

@Mr_Scott_Cheggs Move out of England so that you have a choice.

@DarranMarshall Someone should tell these eejits it IS their native language .. oireachtas.ie/en/press-centr…

“We’re not in Ireland, we’re in Ulster. It’s not our language. It’s not our native language. It’s a Gaelic language from a foreign country.” Sandy Row protest over Irish language signs at Belfast Grand Central station. irishnews.com/news/northern-…

What nobody seems to be asking about US tariffs is what they'll be spent on. They'll boost federal income at the time DOGE is cutting back on federal spending. Where will they spend the tariffs?

@squinteratn I don't think anything will keep the TUV happy. Andytown Arena? M1 View Park? Don't see it.

Changed days. Obviously there'll be a lot of opposition, but it's interesting to see people not ruling it out immediately. belfastmedia.com/casement-royal…

@sean_murray1 It's all stupid anyway. Most of us used to speak the language. Rev Neilson said you had to speak Irish to understand people, this is Presbyterians in the place Jim McAllister grew up in (and 2 miles away where my Dad, lifelong Presbyterian) was born. oireachtas.ie/en/press-centr…

Look at who's retweeting the most vile sectarian accounts around the Grand Central Station Irish language issue and you will understand how deeply sectarianism & supremacy runs through even the most 'respectable' elements of unionist civil society and academia.

@TonyEvans92a @Tesco I don't know about Tesco but the same thing happened to me in a Lidl (I was 10 minutes over time), I complained to them and got a refund straight away.

Hi @Tesco I've received a parking ticket after using your Cromwell Road superstore a week last Saturday. We took 86yo mother-in-law to store, spent more than £115 on shopping and then took her to the cafe for something to eat after she got tired. For this we've been fined £60

@AuldHowthGun Don't you know that Ulster was created by God in 1690 with King Billy on a white horse landing on Carrick beach with Jesus by his side?

Loyalism and Unionism in the north is often the subject of much mockery for its hypocrisy and stupidity. But why? A thread 🧵

@SetantaD Whatever greedy ministers and drug dealing hallions want to foist on people they can think they can push around.

Remind me, what is British Unionist culture ?🤔

@J4m35c4mpb3ll I did the maths on this myself - per capita GDP is higher in Scotland than most of the UK. London and SE England are top, then Scotland & East Mids of England. House prices are lower but that's just because there's a lot more available land.

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