This one’s for the ladies.
If there’s any left …
Tonight the fragrant Lady TenPin served up her signature dessert.
A passion fruit and New York-style cheesecake of such divine beauty I knew I’d hit the back of the net™
The secret, she told me later, was calvados.
I never bloomin’ knew.
TenPin Terry
Of course it was nothing like as good as a Vanessa’s Creamed Horn™.
We’re not savages you know.
TenPin Terry
Good game though wasn’t it ?
I admire the Hun. Worthy opponents.
Always good in defence, unless they’re away to Russia of course.
Suspect in the air but then again with a Spitfire up your jacksie why wouldn’t you be ?
Still.
Berlin.
Always been a good hunting ground for Tommy …
Jawohl, mein Herr!™
Ronnie
Not a bad game Terry but a bit lame and repetitive like…you know who
Otis Blue
“…turning like a fully laden coal schooner struggling against an estuary tide.”
Barney Ronay offers an apt metaphor for Harry Maguire.
scottser
‘the carved mahogany armoire at the heart of united’s defence..’
Otis Blue
Ronay once memorably compared the sound of a Harry Maguire header to that of a frozen cow carcass hitting cobbles after being hurled from a seventeenth-floor window.
TenPin Terry
And we beat Jerry 6-5 in the number of arrests made.
German police were dancing in the streets with the lads apparently and sinking a few steins.
Well, we’re all Europeans really …
i’m not biting today, twenty percent – i’m too busy and you’re too boring.
laters.
john f
Zelenskyy is a strange actor. We are told that Russia mostly has total superiority in Ukraine. Yet he is always out in the open where a single drone strike could presumably take him out. Loads of celebrities, large amounts of major politicians and celebrities, officials have visited Kiev for amongst other things photo oportunties, would this be done in an active war zone?
Zelenskyy seems hellbent on incrementally shifting the West into taking actions that will possibly lead to a bigger conflict that could kill millions.
Like I mean, he is not making calls for Western nations to negotiate our Russian withdrawal in exchange for the lifting of some sanctions or other arrangements. Rather, he is calling for more weapons, more warfare, more human suffering, et cetera.
The whole thing seems off.
Cian
If Ukraine stop fighting, it is the end of Ukraine
Ir Russia stop fighting, it is the end of the war
What choice does he have?.
Me So Harney
If Kiev stopped shelling donbass it would not have started.
Rob_G
I wonder if the shelling in Donbass was in response to, I don’t know, a Russian invasion, perchance?
Me So Harney
Rob_G wrong as always, Kiev has been shelling the donbass for the past decade.
Try harder..
Rob_G
Russia launched their first, smaller-scale illegal invasion in 2014… I can’t try it harder, need to keep it interesting
Me So Harney
Was this before the US backed coup and shelling from Kiev?
Do try harder Rob, I’m starting to lose interest..
The Nigel Account
When the Ukrainian people rejected the then-president’s leaning towards Russia and Putin started the seperatist conflict?
ce
if Ukraine hadn’t given up it’s nuclear weapons for the benefit of the whole world none of this would be happening…
…in 1654 if the cossack hadn’t…
Tom J
Donbas is part of Ukraine.
The Nigel Account
Weird how people twist the blame for the bloodshed onto Ukraine for not surrendering quickly enough. Putin must be appeased!
bisted
…the most striking thing about this conflict has been the restraint shown by Russia…were they content to merely kill civilians they could do so from the relative safety of Russia…they enjoy support throughout Ukraine and have a level of intelligence that would let them strike with pinpoint accuracy…the procession of Ukrainian politicians and their relentless call for arms to escalate the conflict seems strange…why doesn’t Russia start their denazifaction with these vile usurpers…
ANO
Accepting your premise, which I don’t necessarily, then possible answers might be that they don’t enjoy the support you suggest or that their aims might not be as stated.
The Nigel Account
Yes, look at Mariupol, so much restraint and support and pinpoint accuracy, why would anyone seeing that want more arms to defend themselves with?
SOQ
Sending more bombs and guns always creates peace- said nobody. And yet that is exactly what the coke head of Kiev is demanding- oh and more money, especially more money.
Except the western allies are being very selective as what they do actually send, because long rang weapons would allow him bomb into Russia and that is when the party really gets started. Germany in particular does not want German weapons used against Russia because they know too well the implications of such.
The Nigel Account
Yes, it’s outrageous that Zelensky defends his country from a foreign invasion.
ANO
Zelensky’s fighting a propaganda war while an actual war is raging around him, you have to filter everything he says and does through that lens.
He needs to present himself as an uncompromising wartime leader, unwilling to yield an inch of sovereign territory to hostile invading forces. It’s unlikely a softer face would win anything from Putin or indeed the various nations of the West from whom he’s trying to curry any and all support he can get.
A weaker leader who didn’t resonate with so many in the West would have left Ukraine isolated and this whole affair would probably be over by now.
Ultimately the best that he and Ukraine can probably hope for is a diplomatic solution that sees a chunk of their Eastern territory consumed by Putin’s Russia. Deep down I think every Irish person can understand the desire to do all in your power to stop your country being divided like that.
bisted
…I feel truly sorry for the people of Ukraine…even the most pro-Russian cannot understand this invasion…hopefully, the penny will drop that they are being used to fight a proxy war with Russia…the real question is…qui bono?
Cú Chulainn
Yeah, a couple of things about this war just don’t add up. The withdrawal from the north was bizarre. The surrender at Maripole was equally bizarre. The front line footage has largely disappeared. It’s almost as if a deal was struck early on and an outcome is agreed and we are just playing this out for the audience. I could be wrong. Of this I’m sure, America has won, energy to Europe is now back in their hands under the $. That what this was all about.
Rob_G
There’s still loads of frontline footage, Russia withdrew from the North because they failed in their objective of taking Kiev quickly – you are delusional.
Me So Harney
Lololololololols..
I’m afraid the delusion is yours. Russia has never had any intention of taking Kiev.
Rob_G
A bit weird that they drove almost to the outer suburbs before turning around again then, innit?
Me So Harney
Its only wierd to the ignorant and feeble minded.
paddy apathy
Please enlighten us then, oh wise one.
NM
‘Pro-Russian people don’t understand the invasion’.What are you talking about.The only people who don’t understand are the likes of you who are over 3k km and taking your understanding through filtered propaganda that does not want you to know what is actually happening.Your stupidity is tragic.
SOQ
No one seems to know what the ordinary Ukrainians actually want and nobody seems too bothered about finding out either.,
40 % of Ukrainians are native Russian speakers, a language they have been banned from speaking. And while they never explicitly stated a desire to join Russia, after being butchered by the Azov Nazis for eight years, it would be no surprise if they now did.
We do that before all this kicked off, because of his involvement in the Panama papers, Zelenskyy was very unpopular, especially as he was elected on an anti corruption ticket.
paddy apathy
What exactly is your point, 100% of Irish people speak English, doesn’t mean they want to be part of the UK. Your statistics are meaningless.
paddy apathy
Oops- point made below by Daisy.
Rob_G
If SOQ’s thesis was correct, you’d imagine that the Ukrainians would be falling over themselves to welcome the Russians, instead of leaving (safe. wealthy) Ireland to risk their lives fighting them.
Half a dozen going home to fight on a propaganda slot by RTE means frig all.
Tell me- if you can you still book hotels in Kiev- you can- and celebrities and politicians are jetting in for photoshoots on a daily basis- they are- why then do these people need to flee to the far end of Europe for safety?
Something doesn’t make sense.
The Nigel Account
How many thousands of Ukrainians do you reckon have died in the Russian invasion so far?
Daisy Chainsaw
99% of Irish people are English speakers. Sure lets rejoin the commonwealth and return to the days of Empire.
jonjoker
“Zelensky’s fighting a propaganda war”
He sure is. I’m another one who has been surprised by the number of photo ops on the front line.
It’s totally not possible that they are being staged somewhere else entirely, is it?
ANO
It’s far from beyond the realms of possibility but I don’t believe there’s any evidence that this has been the case.
Violet-Anne Wynne is not all she appears ,nor is her situation.What landlord will take her on now seeing as she can’t even pay rent from a TD’s salary.
scottser
can’t find somewhere to live on 100k plus expenses?
she’s an insult to genuinely homeless people.
Broadbag
She’s an insult to…humans.
Daisy Chainsaw
She can pay her rent, she needs a 4 bed house and there are none available. I know people in Wexford in the same position who’ve been looking since January with no joy and are effectively homeless now. They’re both working so have the money to pay rent, but a property specific to their children’s needs can’t be found.
scottser
she can’t put a deposit down on a house on a 100k salary?
get.
a.
grip.
Daisy Chainsaw
Have you tried to get a mortgage lately? That income is guaranteed for a max of 5 years. She won’t get one on the basis of her current financial status.
scottser
after 5 years she gets a 20k pension. sorry, she can fuk right off if she thinks she’s homeless and if she went to clare county council looking to be officially declared as such they would laugh her out the door.
goldenbrown
jasus Violet Anne at it again
on the front page too
why do the press entertain her, I wonder
LOL
ce
to entertain you… she’s like a post-modern Healy-Rae…
Rob_G
VAW is a godsend to news editors – why wouldn’t they give her as many columns as she is willing to fill?
Cú Chulainn
And, the only cocaine crisis in Ireland is that there isn’t any. What is being sold are hard amphetamines bought from Chinese labs and mixed with a minuscule amount of actual cocaine. It’s pure poison, addictive rather than habit forming and downright dangerous. The damage is immense. It’s exactly why we need decriminalisation, for the safety of our children.
Tom J
Children shouldn’t be taking drugs.
Cú Chulainn
And yet they do.. which is why we need clean drugs and controlled supply chains…
Tom J
Children do not take recreational drugs, unless the parents leave them lying around and a child happens to come across them and end up in hospital.
scottser
if you class a child as a person under say 16 or 17 years old, then there are plenty of children taking class a drugs. if you think they take them because their parents leave them lying around, you have absolutely no clue about how and why young people get into drugs.
Me So Harney
Tom is silly
Tom J
@ Lord Charles,
I didn’t know they allowed phones in playschool.
Tom J
@ scottser,
enlighten me as to how and why children are taking class (a) drugs.
scottser
no tom. why don’t you stop being a lazy dickwad and do some research yourself. or maybe even talk to someone with addiction issues – it’s not like they’re hard to find.
Tom J
@ scottser, that’s why I was asking you. You seemed to know so much about it, but sometimes I get it wrong. Thanks anyway.
So named because its “writers” were all banned from the Graun’s comments section. It’s a joke of a website that nobody takes seriously but tankies and conspiraloons!
Hughie Luas
“Your Ukrainian surrogate”.
Jesus Wept.
Termagant
“If petrol is too expensive just don’t use it :)” is classic blue-sky Green thinking
paddy apathy
Using less of something is not the same as not using it at all. Maybe next time you can use your bicycle going through the McDonalds drive-through. It’s just a suggestion.
Fearganainm
High profile loyalist’s arrest in Belfast raids believed to be in connection with hoax bomb attack on Simon Coveney:
The NI protocol is buried under the white elephant it is
Been saying that since the backstop and was banned for my views
You cannot move a border where it’s convenient
It’s time our politicians started thinking about our interests not the EUs
The solution put forward by Truss is common sense but totally unacceptable because the EU are not calling the shots
I lived in the UK 1955 until 1978
During that time they had some of the strictest standards in the world
By leaving do you actually think the brits will put up with tat from China that will not get in now
Their food safety standards were the highest in the world
And I studied as part of my training as a baker everything about the ingredients and what were permitted additives and what were not
Fearganainm
You’ve got a Brit living in your head, you crawler.
The protocol was foisted on Northern Ireland because of Brexit, which was backed by the DUP and implemented in Northern Ireland despite the fact that 56% of people in Northern Ireland voted against it.
Fearganainm
Two members of An Bord Pleanála ‘had conflicts of interest’ when granting 490 south Dublin housing units planning permission:
“Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reported to have expressed anger towards Foreign Secretary Liz Truss over the draft legislation on the Northern Ireland Protocol. The Financial Times reported that tensions flared in the cabinet meeting on Wednesday, with Johnson “snapping” at Ms Truss, according to the reports. It is understood his anger involved Ms Truss toughening up parts of the legislation under pressure from Eurosceptic Conservative MPs, with a source telling the newspaper Mr Johnson was instead seeking a “negotiated solution” with the European Union. It is also believed a number of cabinet ministers, including the Chancellor Rishi Sunak, wanted assurances the legislation – which is expected to be tabled on Monday – did not break international law and lead to a potential trade war with the EU…”
Fearganainm
Northern Ireland Dairy Council chief insists protocol is working:
“the day the World turned Day-Glo…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxZPLI4vwcg
We’re back baby! Hope all is well in BS Towers.
This one’s for the ladies.
If there’s any left …
Tonight the fragrant Lady TenPin served up her signature dessert.
A passion fruit and New York-style cheesecake of such divine beauty I knew I’d hit the back of the net™
The secret, she told me later, was calvados.
I never bloomin’ knew.
Of course it was nothing like as good as a Vanessa’s Creamed Horn™.
We’re not savages you know.
Good game though wasn’t it ?
I admire the Hun. Worthy opponents.
Always good in defence, unless they’re away to Russia of course.
Suspect in the air but then again with a Spitfire up your jacksie why wouldn’t you be ?
Still.
Berlin.
Always been a good hunting ground for Tommy …
Jawohl, mein Herr!™
Not a bad game Terry but a bit lame and repetitive like…you know who
“…turning like a fully laden coal schooner struggling against an estuary tide.”
Barney Ronay offers an apt metaphor for Harry Maguire.
‘the carved mahogany armoire at the heart of united’s defence..’
Ronay once memorably compared the sound of a Harry Maguire header to that of a frozen cow carcass hitting cobbles after being hurled from a seventeenth-floor window.
And we beat Jerry 6-5 in the number of arrests made.
German police were dancing in the streets with the lads apparently and sinking a few steins.
Well, we’re all Europeans really …
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/germany-england-police-arrests-fans-b1004793.html
Poor Scutter™
Wunderbar™
i’m not biting today, twenty percent – i’m too busy and you’re too boring.
laters.
Zelenskyy is a strange actor. We are told that Russia mostly has total superiority in Ukraine. Yet he is always out in the open where a single drone strike could presumably take him out. Loads of celebrities, large amounts of major politicians and celebrities, officials have visited Kiev for amongst other things photo oportunties, would this be done in an active war zone?
Zelenskyy seems hellbent on incrementally shifting the West into taking actions that will possibly lead to a bigger conflict that could kill millions.
Like I mean, he is not making calls for Western nations to negotiate our Russian withdrawal in exchange for the lifting of some sanctions or other arrangements. Rather, he is calling for more weapons, more warfare, more human suffering, et cetera.
The whole thing seems off.
If Ukraine stop fighting, it is the end of Ukraine
Ir Russia stop fighting, it is the end of the war
What choice does he have?.
If Kiev stopped shelling donbass it would not have started.
I wonder if the shelling in Donbass was in response to, I don’t know, a Russian invasion, perchance?
Rob_G wrong as always, Kiev has been shelling the donbass for the past decade.
Try harder..
Russia launched their first, smaller-scale illegal invasion in 2014… I can’t try it harder, need to keep it interesting
Was this before the US backed coup and shelling from Kiev?
Do try harder Rob, I’m starting to lose interest..
When the Ukrainian people rejected the then-president’s leaning towards Russia and Putin started the seperatist conflict?
if Ukraine hadn’t given up it’s nuclear weapons for the benefit of the whole world none of this would be happening…
…in 1654 if the cossack hadn’t…
Donbas is part of Ukraine.
Weird how people twist the blame for the bloodshed onto Ukraine for not surrendering quickly enough. Putin must be appeased!
…the most striking thing about this conflict has been the restraint shown by Russia…were they content to merely kill civilians they could do so from the relative safety of Russia…they enjoy support throughout Ukraine and have a level of intelligence that would let them strike with pinpoint accuracy…the procession of Ukrainian politicians and their relentless call for arms to escalate the conflict seems strange…why doesn’t Russia start their denazifaction with these vile usurpers…
Accepting your premise, which I don’t necessarily, then possible answers might be that they don’t enjoy the support you suggest or that their aims might not be as stated.
Yes, look at Mariupol, so much restraint and support and pinpoint accuracy, why would anyone seeing that want more arms to defend themselves with?
Sending more bombs and guns always creates peace- said nobody. And yet that is exactly what the coke head of Kiev is demanding- oh and more money, especially more money.
Except the western allies are being very selective as what they do actually send, because long rang weapons would allow him bomb into Russia and that is when the party really gets started. Germany in particular does not want German weapons used against Russia because they know too well the implications of such.
Yes, it’s outrageous that Zelensky defends his country from a foreign invasion.
Zelensky’s fighting a propaganda war while an actual war is raging around him, you have to filter everything he says and does through that lens.
He needs to present himself as an uncompromising wartime leader, unwilling to yield an inch of sovereign territory to hostile invading forces. It’s unlikely a softer face would win anything from Putin or indeed the various nations of the West from whom he’s trying to curry any and all support he can get.
A weaker leader who didn’t resonate with so many in the West would have left Ukraine isolated and this whole affair would probably be over by now.
Ultimately the best that he and Ukraine can probably hope for is a diplomatic solution that sees a chunk of their Eastern territory consumed by Putin’s Russia. Deep down I think every Irish person can understand the desire to do all in your power to stop your country being divided like that.
…I feel truly sorry for the people of Ukraine…even the most pro-Russian cannot understand this invasion…hopefully, the penny will drop that they are being used to fight a proxy war with Russia…the real question is…qui bono?
Yeah, a couple of things about this war just don’t add up. The withdrawal from the north was bizarre. The surrender at Maripole was equally bizarre. The front line footage has largely disappeared. It’s almost as if a deal was struck early on and an outcome is agreed and we are just playing this out for the audience. I could be wrong. Of this I’m sure, America has won, energy to Europe is now back in their hands under the $. That what this was all about.
There’s still loads of frontline footage, Russia withdrew from the North because they failed in their objective of taking Kiev quickly – you are delusional.
Lololololololols..
I’m afraid the delusion is yours. Russia has never had any intention of taking Kiev.
A bit weird that they drove almost to the outer suburbs before turning around again then, innit?
Its only wierd to the ignorant and feeble minded.
Please enlighten us then, oh wise one.
‘Pro-Russian people don’t understand the invasion’.What are you talking about.The only people who don’t understand are the likes of you who are over 3k km and taking your understanding through filtered propaganda that does not want you to know what is actually happening.Your stupidity is tragic.
No one seems to know what the ordinary Ukrainians actually want and nobody seems too bothered about finding out either.,
40 % of Ukrainians are native Russian speakers, a language they have been banned from speaking. And while they never explicitly stated a desire to join Russia, after being butchered by the Azov Nazis for eight years, it would be no surprise if they now did.
We do that before all this kicked off, because of his involvement in the Panama papers, Zelenskyy was very unpopular, especially as he was elected on an anti corruption ticket.
What exactly is your point, 100% of Irish people speak English, doesn’t mean they want to be part of the UK. Your statistics are meaningless.
Oops- point made below by Daisy.
If SOQ’s thesis was correct, you’d imagine that the Ukrainians would be falling over themselves to welcome the Russians, instead of leaving (safe. wealthy) Ireland to risk their lives fighting them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjboG7sq17E
Half a dozen going home to fight on a propaganda slot by RTE means frig all.
Tell me- if you can you still book hotels in Kiev- you can- and celebrities and politicians are jetting in for photoshoots on a daily basis- they are- why then do these people need to flee to the far end of Europe for safety?
Something doesn’t make sense.
How many thousands of Ukrainians do you reckon have died in the Russian invasion so far?
99% of Irish people are English speakers. Sure lets rejoin the commonwealth and return to the days of Empire.
“Zelensky’s fighting a propaganda war”
He sure is. I’m another one who has been surprised by the number of photo ops on the front line.
It’s totally not possible that they are being staged somewhere else entirely, is it?
It’s far from beyond the realms of possibility but I don’t believe there’s any evidence that this has been the case.
No, definitely not a green screen..
https://youtu.be/dwKwxw3Lxlo
What is the name of this “Ukrainian news anchor”, and what channel do they broadcast on?
Once again for poor little Rob..
https://youtu.be/BrCRwjZuJoE
That’s clearly a skit.
Very nice of Ursula to take a trip to the TV studio, also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBRP_2eXvFU
Anyone for a slice of dead Lenin?
https://twitter.com/sovietvisuals/status/1534272737056673792
Lenin drizzle cake?
Lenin tart?
Lenin Meringue Pie?
Violet-Anne Wynne is not all she appears ,nor is her situation.What landlord will take her on now seeing as she can’t even pay rent from a TD’s salary.
can’t find somewhere to live on 100k plus expenses?
she’s an insult to genuinely homeless people.
She’s an insult to…humans.
She can pay her rent, she needs a 4 bed house and there are none available. I know people in Wexford in the same position who’ve been looking since January with no joy and are effectively homeless now. They’re both working so have the money to pay rent, but a property specific to their children’s needs can’t be found.
she can’t put a deposit down on a house on a 100k salary?
get.
a.
grip.
Have you tried to get a mortgage lately? That income is guaranteed for a max of 5 years. She won’t get one on the basis of her current financial status.
after 5 years she gets a 20k pension. sorry, she can fuk right off if she thinks she’s homeless and if she went to clare county council looking to be officially declared as such they would laugh her out the door.
jasus Violet Anne at it again
on the front page too
why do the press entertain her, I wonder
LOL
to entertain you… she’s like a post-modern Healy-Rae…
VAW is a godsend to news editors – why wouldn’t they give her as many columns as she is willing to fill?
And, the only cocaine crisis in Ireland is that there isn’t any. What is being sold are hard amphetamines bought from Chinese labs and mixed with a minuscule amount of actual cocaine. It’s pure poison, addictive rather than habit forming and downright dangerous. The damage is immense. It’s exactly why we need decriminalisation, for the safety of our children.
Children shouldn’t be taking drugs.
And yet they do.. which is why we need clean drugs and controlled supply chains…
Children do not take recreational drugs, unless the parents leave them lying around and a child happens to come across them and end up in hospital.
if you class a child as a person under say 16 or 17 years old, then there are plenty of children taking class a drugs. if you think they take them because their parents leave them lying around, you have absolutely no clue about how and why young people get into drugs.
Tom is silly
@ Lord Charles,
I didn’t know they allowed phones in playschool.
@ scottser,
enlighten me as to how and why children are taking class (a) drugs.
no tom. why don’t you stop being a lazy dickwad and do some research yourself. or maybe even talk to someone with addiction issues – it’s not like they’re hard to find.
@ scottser, that’s why I was asking you. You seemed to know so much about it, but sometimes I get it wrong. Thanks anyway.
https://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/28138/
fecks sake tom, its not that bleedin hard.
Tbh this explains a lot about your posting style on this site.
To be honest, I don’t know what you are on about.
That’s understandable, as the comment was not responding to one of yours.
It’s to me Tom J.. Rob_g has woken up in a cranky mood…
@ Rob_G
Honest mistake, my apologies to you.
Well written OG article on the state of Ukraine today and how it got there.
Maybe it is all just part of the plan for the one world government and an argument over a boundary regarding spheres of influence?
https://off-guardian.org/2022/06/07/ukraine-war-what-is-it-good-for-transformation/
So named because its “writers” were all banned from the Graun’s comments section. It’s a joke of a website that nobody takes seriously but tankies and conspiraloons!
“Your Ukrainian surrogate”.
Jesus Wept.
“If petrol is too expensive just don’t use it :)” is classic blue-sky Green thinking
Using less of something is not the same as not using it at all. Maybe next time you can use your bicycle going through the McDonalds drive-through. It’s just a suggestion.
High profile loyalist’s arrest in Belfast raids believed to be in connection with hoax bomb attack on Simon Coveney:
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/high-profile-loyalists-arrest-in-belfast-raids-believed-to-be-in-connection-with-hoax-bomb-attack-on-simon-coveney-41733090.html
Irish PM alludes to Ukraine crisis as he warns against ripping up NI protocol:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/08/irish-pm-micheal-martin-ukraine-crisis-ni-protocol-boris-johnson
The NI protocol is buried under the white elephant it is
Been saying that since the backstop and was banned for my views
You cannot move a border where it’s convenient
It’s time our politicians started thinking about our interests not the EUs
The solution put forward by Truss is common sense but totally unacceptable because the EU are not calling the shots
I lived in the UK 1955 until 1978
During that time they had some of the strictest standards in the world
By leaving do you actually think the brits will put up with tat from China that will not get in now
Their food safety standards were the highest in the world
And I studied as part of my training as a baker everything about the ingredients and what were permitted additives and what were not
You’ve got a Brit living in your head, you crawler.
The protocol was foisted on Northern Ireland because of Brexit, which was backed by the DUP and implemented in Northern Ireland despite the fact that 56% of people in Northern Ireland voted against it.
Two members of An Bord Pleanála ‘had conflicts of interest’ when granting 490 south Dublin housing units planning permission:
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/two-members-of-an-bord-pleanala-had-conflicts-of-interest-when-granting-490-south-dublin-housing-units-planning-permission-41734245.html
Boris Johnson ‘snapped’ at Liz Truss over Northern Ireland Protocol approach: reports
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-snapped-at-liz-truss-over-northern-ireland-protocol-approach-reports-41734646.html
“Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reported to have expressed anger towards Foreign Secretary Liz Truss over the draft legislation on the Northern Ireland Protocol. The Financial Times reported that tensions flared in the cabinet meeting on Wednesday, with Johnson “snapping” at Ms Truss, according to the reports. It is understood his anger involved Ms Truss toughening up parts of the legislation under pressure from Eurosceptic Conservative MPs, with a source telling the newspaper Mr Johnson was instead seeking a “negotiated solution” with the European Union. It is also believed a number of cabinet ministers, including the Chancellor Rishi Sunak, wanted assurances the legislation – which is expected to be tabled on Monday – did not break international law and lead to a potential trade war with the EU…”
Northern Ireland Dairy Council chief insists protocol is working:
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/northern-ireland-dairy-council-chief-insists-protocol-is-working-41733987.html