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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social

Indeed *why* would they have done that? in 1998 the concern that the UK would leave the ECHR wasn't a cloud as large as a man's hand. Nobody at all thought that possible. Compare the completely differently drafted UK-EU Trade Co-Op Agreement.

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Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social

because good leaders think long term.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social

Presumably Blair and Ahern are the "bad leaders " then for failing to draft the GFA in the way the UK-EU Trade and Co-Op Agreement was.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social

The threat of cancellation of the GFA would have been counter-productive...

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