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Unionist. Tech/Sci-Fi geek. C64, Amiga, Raspberry Pi,Linux. Video Analytics & CCTV. Ulster-Scots. Lived in West Germany, Essex, Scotland & Ulster.
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Oct 8, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
This is an absurd take. The DUP have been Eurosceptic since opposing the EEC in the 1970s and all the DUP MPs were some of the first to sign up to the @BetterOffOut campaign in the noughties as well as campaigning to save the pound & reject the EU constitution in their manifesto
May 29, 2022 4 tweets 5 min read
MD of Walker’s Shortbread, : “Since Brexit, we’ve found the documentation required for mail order to be excessively onerous in relation to value of goods and it is been no longer viable to continue mail order business with Northern Ireland.” telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… @benhabib6 @CatharineHoey @JimAllister @SteveAikenUUP @pmdfoster @HCH_Hill @His_Grace @BeattieDoug @NigelDoddsDUP @J_Donaldson_MP @BenLowry2 @SJAMcBride @DavidGHFrost @DCBMEP @danielmgmoylan
May 28, 2022 12 tweets 4 min read
Conservative & Unionist Party manifesto pledges:

2017: "our determination to defend the integrity of the United Kingdom
and to strengthen the Union, bringing the peoples of the United Kingdom together."

@trussliz @BrandonLewis @BorisJohnson @CJCHowarth @SteveBakerHW 2017: Our laws will be made in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, and interpreted by judges across the United Kingdom, not in Luxembourg.
Mar 11, 2022 32 tweets 14 min read
NI Protocol: Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister @edwinpootsmla outlines that without the grace periods in place the number of commonhealth entry documents to be processed for GB-NI trade would rise from 2,500 per week to 12,500 per week Image
Feb 10, 2022 13 tweets 4 min read
The Irish Tea border Image Protocol requirement for customs declarations for parcel deliveries & Internet shopping fun the rest of the UK.
Feb 9, 2022 116 tweets 38 min read
A thread on issues with the Northern Ireland protocol

1 of many Image FSB NI on the NI Protocol "Last week, one FSB member whose business is a long-established luxury food emporium, reported that over twenty suppliers in GB have stopped sending goods" fsb.org.uk/resources-page…
Dec 19, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
Irish government to introduce further checks on livestock crossing the border from Northern Ireland

If we can conduct checks on milk tankers & sheep crossing the border (at the points of origin & destinations) without a physical frontier then why can't we do the same for sausages, cheese & flatscreen TV's?

Aug 1, 2019 86 tweets 18 min read
My thread on ditching the backstop for Alternative Arrangements has got rather long. Here is a condensed version starting with recent comments by the Irish EU Commissioner stating checks will happen away from the border The Alternative Arrangements Commission proposals