The Irish protocol.

Your interpretations of wanting to stay part of the UK are based only on opinion polls but yet we should accept it as fact.

Yet you'll outright dismiss an actual, official democratic poll on EU membership that indicates the desire for the people of NI to remain in the EU!

On the contrary; You've shown (again) the blinkers you're willing to put on when it comes to EU/UK to justify any reason for siding with the UK government so unwaveringly. The UK government have treated NI (all people) with nothing but contempt during the Brexit process, yet your ire is constantly and consistently directed at the EU and, even more bizarrely, the Irish Government. Your misguided, and plainly wrong, place of blame has been pointed out numerous times.

And as for highlighting "prejudice"; that's back fired spectacularly.

You're 'justification' for siding so loyally "any day of the week" with the UK was "Just compare what each has done for us over the decades". Again; one governing body ruled/allowed the ruling over one specific portion of the population in a manner any third world despot would've been proud of. Yet you gladly hark back to what they done for "US" of ver the decades. As you so eloquently put it; Join the Dots......Telling indeed.

Edit: And to echo my previous post; The UK government willfully caused and entertained 30+ years of violence to justify their apartheid stance on one side of the populace of NI.

He's drinking the Jamie Bryson/Jim Allister koolaid.

It doesn't matter if cold hard facts are presented again and again, they are just ignored or the conversation is pivoted to something else.

"One sided"- no, I wasn't one of the "Us" you refer to and, given your responses, I am am proven more accurate on the "Us" post earlier...

You've side stepped the point raised in my post intentionally and painted it simply as a "sectarian campaign over nationality".. Your precious UK government for generations, allowed the implementation of apartheid-esque in a UK member state and watched a peaceful civil rights movement be met with state sponsored violence. This ensured "Themun's" had no other voice than retaliatory violence and made it easier to justify a two tier system based on those they saw as beneath equality. If you or your fellow loyalist brethren really gave a toss about the "great cost or the soldiers", again, your ire would have been squarely at your own in-house leadership and Westminster. Lets not kid ourselves either, if it wasn't for international pressure, things would still be as they were 20-30 years ago....maybe you miss that?

The statement you keep regurgitating about the EU merely "returning a small percentage of the monies" is ( I hope) a willful simplification of how the EU operates; otherwise it's uniformed drivel of the lowest denominator.

As 'producing links' goes that is fairly conclusive proof of your point Tom.

That's some change of tune: from calling it illegal and suggesting that the nutter legal challenge was going to be a potential game changer to acknowledging the legitimacy of the Protocol.

Very different to what you were parroting earlier in the thread....almost like you've realised you were on a beaten docket and tried to pivot away to avoid the red face of acknowledging you were wrong.

You thought that it was illegal and the court case taken by Jim Allister et al was a, 'potential gamechanger'....if it was illegal then it is inherent that it wouldn't be legitimate.

You can't ride both horses and just claim to be on whichever one doesn't fall at the first hurdle. It IS a change of tune no matter how much you deny it.

I fully support the right of anyone to peacefully oppose it by the way. I may disagree, I may think it is misguided for supposed Unionists to rally against something which creates a strong motive for remaining part of the Union, I may think it is idiotic when the plan is to protest in Dublin, but I fully support your right to do so, no matter how ineffective I suspect it may be.