Hilarious!! You declare victory. Diagnose the other person. Then Block.
What a curious hill to die on, but efficient if nothing else I grant you.
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Hilarious!! You declare victory. Diagnose the other person. Then Block.
What a curious hill to die on, but efficient if nothing else I grant you.
Nissan & Sunderland were the talisman of Brexit. If its consequences are ever to be real, both must face it.
Since 2016 the UK taxpayer has spent billions shielding both for naked political expediency. Another bailout now looks likely.
But when gravity finally asserts itself, I’ll shed no tears.
You have my sympathy and best wishes, the same cannot be said of the cretins who inflicted this on you and will bear the inevitable consequences in due course.
Speak for yourself please 😉
This really is not the hill you want to die on: seriously.....
Cue the performative outrage at a self-inflicted wound.
Brexit’s (somewhat overdue) consequences are simply arriving inevitable and well deserved.
Gladly for us, this is not our problem.
Dante doubtless would have known exactly which circle to place these imbeciles in.
Confusing “first surviving record” with “first existence” is undergraduate stuff. Archives preserve fragments, not origins.
If that’s the foundation of your argument, there isn’t one.
If your entire rebuttal reduces to quibbling over dynasties and policing terminology, you’ve rather proved Luigi’s point.
When the argument can’t be answered, the pedantry arrives. Q.E.D.
“Anglo-Saxon” is a long-standing shorthand in comparative politics for a legal-institutional tradition. Calling it a “Russian-adjacent slur” is imaginative, but unserious. If his argument is weak, say why. Inventing offence is not a rebuttal.
Norman or Plantagenet? Of course. Institutions evolve. The point is the tradition they produced: common law, adversarialism, parliamentary supremacy. Labels describe systems, not dynasties. Nomina sunt instrumenta, not genealogy.
Spare us the calendar pedantry. “Anglo-Saxon” here denotes a political-legal tradition, not a DNA test. Everyone else understood that immediately. Your confusion is… instructive.
In reality there was never any intention of compliance on the part of the UK. The intention has always been to just bumble along in the expectation that no sanction will be enforced for non compliance.
Another clinical, actually surgical dissection @nialloconghaile.bsky.social - good food for thought and reflection.
Excellent thread rooted in how EU law actually works rather than how UK politics imagines it does.
The deeper lesson is stark: once you become a third country, “political will” stops bending reality. The centre of gravity has shifted and the UK is now negotiating within that system, not shaping it.
Things that will never happen
Satire is dead
100% this - Brexit was the strategic error; pleading is the operational posture that followed.
France does industrial strategy. The UK writes anxious letters about its side-effects. Agency vs spectatorship.
Brexit mythology only dissolves when the costs become mundane and constant.
This has been a truly inspiring thread Niall - some wonderful experiences and opinions shared. Thank you.
From the Arctic to the Mediterranean, this project is enriched by an extraordinary cultural tapestry and a DNA deep commitment to the rule of law, education and science, and to food, wine, music and the arts.
Where does one start?
Well, there are our values and way of life built on a hard-won commitment to peace after centuries of conflict that remains a living project that continues to evolve. At its core is shared prosperity, the protection of citizens, and the freedom to live and work across borders.
Finalmente si vede una reazione istituzionale alla deriva fascista di Trump.
Basterà? Non credo.
That will never happen: even a blind man can see that.
A thought provoking piece as always Niall.
My concern with a “two-speed Europe” is also that it breed a fresh crop of exceptionalistas who’d treat tier-two as a bespoke status rather than a staging post. Ukraine is clearly a unique case. But for the UK, the lack of trust remains a real hurdle.
He's on crack
He doesn't because he is talking excreta as usual.
Your government could have let you retain those rights, by not doing Brexit. UK did however do Brexit, thus it forced these rigths from you.
We did not do anything to you.
FOM is the result of a complex web of mutual obligations that exist through the EU treaties. When the U.K. elected to leave those treaties, it lost FOM automatically because it was no longer part of the system that makes FOM possible.
This isn’t abstract policy talk but real people terrified of being torn from their families and forced into insecurity by a government that prefers cruelty to coherent planning. It’s performative cruelty, not serious governance.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
#metoo
I understand why Britons want to annul Brexit rather than make the case for Europe.
Making the case is hard. Like they did in Poland and Spain and Ireland.
Like they did at Maidan and are doing in the trenches of the Donbas and the streets of Tbilissi today.
And like they did in the UK in '75