Keir Starmer: Dublin visit 'reset' of UK-Ireland relations
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Labour leader is the first British prime minister to visit the Republic of Ireland in five years.
  • TacticsConsort@yiffit.net
    9·
    4 months ago

    …The fuck were the Tories doing. Did they seriously just. NOT visit Dublin for five whole years?

    I mean, I guess that 2019 IS around about the point where the Tories had a little miniature communist-style purge of every competent, sensible politician in the party that wouldn’t kiss BJ’s ass and allow for a godawful Brexit deal to be shoved through against a changed public will and also common sense, so actually the five year failure to uphold basic obligations makes a lot of sense when taken in context with that particular timeframe…

    • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
      5·
      4 months ago

      No, they were leaving the EU, not visiting it. To be fair, the queen did go for the first time in a long time.

      • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Although the context in that was because of the Troubles, and the Royal Family making state visits isn’t a routine thing