Effectively, the NI High Court found that the Illegal Migration Act was incompatible with the HRA on almost every possible ground, and disapplied it in NI where 'neither the Assembly nor public bodies can infringe' the ECHR and any Bill of Rights for NI. (BGFA (1998))

Hahahah

With this appointment, I can only assume that they want trade within the UK to go up in smoke

Apollo and Intel enter talks to finance $11bn chip plant in Ireland ft.com/content/814b07… via @ft

This is why we can't have nice things.

The UK Govt 'chose not to' set aside Art 2 commitments in it's immigration legislation because it could not and cannot do so without breaching the Withdrawal Agreement. NI has a higher baseline of rights protection than other parts of the UK, this has knock on consequences:

Alexander Horne Jonathan Jones NIHRC JRM last week said all asylum seekers should be encouraged to go to NI and then travel on to Dublin. Today's judgment just spells out that they don't have to make the last bit of that journey to benefit from EU law's protection.

The trouble for unionism is that unless the Protocol and Framework are removed completely then they are in a bind—one forced upon them by the UK sovereign parliament. I don’t see that present parliament or likely successor agreeing to the removal process. So, what follows?

And lets be honest.. most proponents of the Rwanda scheme wouldn't care as long as they were out of GB.

The High Court in Belfast has basically struck down the Illegal Migration Act in Northern Ireland because it breaches the human rights provisions of the Windsor Framework. Expect a government appeal.

Some personal news.

Politics—even when I disagree with the writer or subject—usually fascinates me. This is—and by a considerable distance—the worst political book I have ever read. It actually reads like a fanzine rather than analysis.

Hard to beat the atmosphere in Clones on Ulster GAA football final day,

#Armagh #Donegal #Ulster2024

Pet peeve re: election posters, candidates not mentioning what election their running for when there's multiple elections happening on the same day,

/cc Gavan Reilly

😂

'UK public vote... *checks notes* - zero points'

#Eurovision2024

Eh where's the twirly spinny thing? #Eurovision2024

A story in 3 parts.
#Eurovision2024

ooof..

Do govt spinners think undecided voters could still swing this the UK’s way ?

Nemo really over doing it with their on camera reactions #Eurovision2024