UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson
This morning.
The Court of Appeal in Belfast rejected an appeal by a Northern Irish rights campaigner against British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit strategy.
Lawyers for Raymond McCord had said that a no-deal Brexit on October 31 would breach the Good Friday peace agreement that ended three decades of violence on the island of Ireland.
However, Declan Morgan, chief justice of Northern Ireland, dismissed the case today, saying “it is not appropriate for this court to examine the possible outcome of the [Brexit] negotiation on the basis of political rhetoric.”
Northern Ireland court dismisses no-deal Brexit challenge (Politco. eu)
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The Good Friday agreement
Passed by Referendum
In Northern Ireland 71.1: 28.9 in favour
(94.4% down here)
Is Political Rhetoric
Jesus Christ
I read it to be that the Sasamach “negotiations” are just political rhetoric.
In fairness I think the judge was referring to an outcome that is still largely unknown but subject to various political flag-flying.
is that judge really suggesting that the security services in the uk have no reports whatsoever about the likely impact of brexit on peace in the north? nothing factual to base a case on?
that judge is a goon.
…the judge seems spot on…the judiciary can’t prevent this sham being played out among politicos and the media but they will not allow the court to engage in hypothetical cases…
Shurely be ta’ Christ
The Judge must have heard of The Yellowhammer Document
This is a cod
From top to bottom
From Remains to Brexiteers
From Cambridge Analytica to Main Stream paper based bollockology
No one is winning the arguements
And nothing is capable of standing up straight
Or being allowed to perform
Especially not Democracy, Integrity and Transparency
Leadership has gone missing
On both Islands
We’re all going to get _úcked
“We’re all going to get _úcked”
+1
and I reckon it won’t be long till the “suspect devices” start showing up. then we’ll see how smart Bojo, Rees-1837 & Cambridge Analytica are, wha?
It’s still guesswork, this ‘likely impact’.
81 years ago, September 1938, British PM Neville Chamberlain signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler. That went well.
It’s all guesswork. The most likely outcome is Britain’s unelected teaboy Taoiseach being sent crawling back to ask for an extension to be quickly followed by a single issue election.
I wouldn’t give Johnson the honour of the title ‘Taoiseach / Chieftain’. He’s a prime (many things) but let’s stick to PM.
My Brexit crystal ball says no extension, a crash-out on 31/10 but with a pending deal. Just a hunch based on Johnson’s stubbornness.
In the UK, can’t a party [such as Raymond above] make an application to the courts to grant a declaration as to the existence of facts, in this case, that a no-deal Brexit would be incompatible with the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement 1998? Couldn’t a judge consider that sort of application today ahead of a no-Deal event?
https://judiciaryni.uk/sites/judiciary/files/decisions/Summary%20of%20judgment%20-%20In%20re%20Raymond%20McCord%2C%20JR83%20and%20Jamie%20Waring%20%28Brexit%20JRs%29.pdf
I can’t speak to that
But IMO anyway
Chief Justice Morgan is duty bound – in the jurisdiction he was presiding on, to observe the existence of the Law that enforces the whole of The Good Friday Agreement
Not just the bits that serve both Boris and the DUP
more sensible ruling than the British Supreme Court was capable of .