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I haven't read it, but I haven't seen anything that makes me think the attacks on it are justified.

To take a concrete example, would you support the right of a NIMBY protest group to use direct action to prevent housebuilding?

You don't live in the real world. In what specific way does Russia not go so far?

I think the criticism of it is over the top and it's being introduced for good reasons. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-bill-2021-factsheets/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-bill-2021-protest-powers-factsheet

The law doesn't ban protests, just certain forms of disruptive direct action. You'd get arrested in Ireland too.

The UK isn't banning protests. Where do you get that idea from?

We were discussing the Irish electricity grid. What do the events leading to partition have to do with it? I’ve now read the article which as expected is a biased account. Just to check you don’t have double standards, do you think it would be legitimate for the SNP to unilaterally set up an independent state on the basis of their last few results in Westminster elections?

That would be the Spiked that is an offshoot of Living Marxism and the Revolutionary Communist Party which were full of IRA supporters?

Take it up with the Irish government: https://www.seai.ie/data-and-insights/seai-statistics/key-statistics/electricity/ There is also an interconnector between Northern Ireland and Scotland: https://www.soni.ltd.uk/customer-and-industry/interconnection/

I don't understand your point. First you said that all of Northern Ireland's electricity comes from the Republic which is false. Now you seem to be saying the island of Ireland is more or less self sufficient, and this somehow reflects badly on the UK.

Do you really believe the rubbish you post? Ireland was a net importer of electricity from the UK until 2016.

I'm not sure anyone went into a "seething rage" over that, but there was an obvious disconnect between the reticence to use AZ and the demand for more of it to be delivered at the expense of other countries that were using it fully. Also at no time did the EMA recommend any pause.

This phase isn't over for everyone. "The French target for 15 June is to make it to where the UK was on 27 March - a week before Easter." https://twitter.com/PaulMainwood/status/1388913719971885058

Furthermore the UK's vaccination rate is still faster than the EU and has overtaken the US again.

You're wrong. Two months ago on March 1st, the figures were: UK: 1814 per million EU: 1231 per million The current figures are: UK: 1882 per million EU: 1551 per million So over the last two months the death rate has been: UK: 68 per million EU: 320 per million