You mean in the same way that they passionately cared (and care) about the creation of a Northern Ireland Bill of Rights?
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whats a Northern Ireland Bill of Rights?
sep 1, 2025, 9:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Indeed. Have a read of the Good Friday Agreement.
sep 1, 2025, 9:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Not sure what you are suggesting here - the UK government hasn't brought forward a Bill of Rights (supplemental to the ECHR) as they are entiteld to do. But the Johnson government did propose a Bill of Rights which would have taken the UK out from oversight of the ECHR
sep 2, 2025, 2:20 am • 0 0 • view
It's pretty clear to me before, during and after the couple of years I spent in Belfast in NI politics 30 years ago that Northern Ireland scarcely exists in UK politics - no thanks to the efforts of Ireland to the contrary
sep 2, 2025, 2:20 am • 0 0 • view
As somebody who was indirectly, partially and accidentally responsible for the inclusion of Ulster-Scots into the GFA I do understand the nature of the agreement Ireland's insistence on the ECHR being matched here by the unionists and ignored by the British
sep 2, 2025, 2:29 am • 0 0 • view
...but you can only blame Westminster for that, not Dublin
sep 2, 2025, 2:29 am • 0 0 • view