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Well, Peter Thiel is pushing for augments. The only thing is, we will have to endure the Eugenics War and a nuclear WW3. If I make it that long, I will be 92 when Zeframe Cochrane breaks the warp barrier.
If Northern Ireland can Brexit back to the EU, then Scotland can become independent and join them, followed by Wales, followed by everywhere in the UK being in the EU except for a 1 mile circle around Boris Johnson's house.
No take backs.
Also, I think we could call it rejEUning (rejoining)
NI is finally about to have a republican first minister. History in the making.
Tnx for pointing me in the right direction. I also looked it up (NYT link
"Ms. O’Neill’s elevation to first minister of Northern Ireland on Saturday will mark the first time that a politician who wishes to take the territory out of the United Kingdom has held that role."
The fleg folks will never let this stand
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Northern Ireland’s devolved government has reconvened after a two-year boycott, with Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill due to make history by becoming the first nationalist first minister.
The members will also nominate ministers to an executive, ending an impasse that has paralysed politics and left Northern Ireland run by civil servants on a form of governmental auto-pilot.
The Democratic Unionist party (DUP) walked out of Stormont on 3 February 2022 in protest at post-Brexit trading arrangements that it said undermined the region’s place in the UK.
The party agreed to end the boycott this week after its leader, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, wrung concession from the UK government that smoothed the so-called Irish Sea border.
There has been speculation hat Emma Little-Pengelly, the DUP assembly member for Lagan Valley, will fill the post while Donaldson, an MP, remains at Westminster.
Stormont’s restoration will release a £3.3bn package – including pay rises for public sector workers who have staged multiple strikes – that the UK government had made available, conditional on the revival of institutions set up under the 1998 Good Friday agreement.
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