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What big concessions have we made? Do I think in a good negotiation my side of the negotiation should make concessions at all, yes of course I do!

Yes this deal is what I want, that's why I'm voting for the government to be re-elected. I'm happy with it. But for the NI-specific protocol once...

So, you think a good negotiation means that you make big concessions in return for obeying the rules of the other side?

Interesting, NASA has observed seasonal O2 level variation in Mars' atmosphere, at least in Gale Crater, that corresponds with the previously...

You're one of the voters. Which means that this is what you want.

No I'm not. How was "If that is what the voters want - I always have been" dodging the question? If you want a one word answer then: Yes. How...

You are dodging the question.

I am watching a reality TV show that is entirely rigged and at the same time incredibly interesting. The show is called 'It's a man's world'. The...

If that's what the voters want - I always have been. I'm a democrat. If the voters want to go completely then please take it, you'd be doing us a...

Mandalorian started off a lot stronger than I was expecting. Gonna be an adjustment going back to weekly releases though.

So, you are fine with giving us NI. You're also fine with not getting anything in return for it?

Fine. If the unionists don't have the numbers that's democracy. I'm cool with that.

Bojack Horseman, S6. This is to be the final season on Netflix, which is probably a good thing. I didn't care for Season 5 that much, though all...

You know that unionist will never have the numbers. The union of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is de facto over. It's not devolution its...

No it didn't. It gave devolution to Northern Ireland's Stormont Assembly, devolution has existed for a long time now. What's your problem with...

Couldn't agree more.

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The Conservative Party is a unionist party, in name at least. It gave up Northern Ireland for all intents and purposes. And all we had to do was...

The UK pre-HRA always was a signatory to the European Convention of Human Rights Laws and cases could be taken to the European Court of Human Rights....

By all means, enlighten me as to what you think the proposal is.

No it won't. You misunderstood the proposal.

What utter BS. The UK is treaty-bound, under the ECHR, to thoroughly investigate and punish crimes committed by representatives of the state--such as...

Why would I associate myself in "we" with the DUP? I'm a Tory not DUP. Sure exclude them all you like, I don't care about them. I don't particularly...

I have no qualms about people with Irish accents and the government is proposing rectifying an anomoly in the law not denying justice. But why let...

Sure, if you redefine "we" to exclude DUP, for whom this was indeed zero sum and has resulted in a major setback :haha:

I have a better idea: don't be a cretin who gobbles up a govt's cynical move to protect perpetrators from accountability and deny justice to people...

This is a prime example of how negotiations aren't zero sum. We didn't like the backstop, you didn't like the backstop but thought it was necessary -...

Besides it being untrue and even if it was true . . . Who cares about that? Better that than the alternative.

Get over yourself sourpuss.

I suggested a handful of Lib Dem seats, 5 is top end of that. Half a dozen SNP seats difference is beyond what I would have thought. Not sure how...