Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 31mAh go on, you love our time together, so it can't be a waste 010
Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 33mThey don't like the EEA governance structure (for the UK) 000
Reposted by Niall Ó Conghailedraditrapani.bsky.social @draditrapani.bsky.social · 4hLet me guess, France, Germany and Italy? Of course UK being a competitor they want to compete on equal terms, not providing advantages to UK 061
Reposted by Niall Ó ConghaileDesmond O’Toole @desmondotoole.bsky.social · 5hI guess that’s one for the “not serious” column. Funny, I expected better from Burnham. 111
Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 37mExactly. I'm.l glad the debate has opened. I even wrote a piece in @eastangliabylines.co.uk about how necessary that was. But let's also acknowledge he's said nothing positive about the Union and has not actually set out any action yet, which stands out in that speech 000
Reposted by Niall Ó ConghaileLuigi di Angeli @luigidiangeli.bsky.social · 5hNobody disputes what Sánchez and Macron said. Your sleight of hand is pretending two friendly quotations settle what 27 states would decide in an actual accession process. They don’t. Quotations still aren’t votes, however lovingly you curate them. 121
Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 43mMore the typical exceptionalist problem that a friendly quote means open season on cherry-picking 000
Reposted by Niall Ó ConghaileNorthHerts4Europe @northherts4europe.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 5hFascinating chat with a diplomat from a major European country this week [...] The position, they say, is that #BrexitBritain wants broadly speaking full access to the European single market. However: 021
Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 54mI think saying it makes it easier to deport failed asylum seekers - his main point this week - is unlikely to be persuasive in the medium term 130
Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 56mI agree. Transactionalism is transient. Identity is durable. 020
Reposted by Niall Ó ConghaileMemnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 10h1/ I defer to the experts here like Niall, but if Burnham is serious about rejoin, there needs to be a real effort made to educate the British public regarding the history and purpose of the EU. 362
Reposted by Niall Ó ConghaileKresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 11h…only if a unicorn deal is on offer…is worthless…since there will be no unicorn deal offered to the UK or any other applicant. We will have to wait and see what importance he puts on this subject. He needs to convince a lot of people. He doesn’t have unlimited time. 2029 will happen soon enough. 021
Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 1hIndeed. I really am intrigued to see what he sees as the options 000
Reposted by Niall Ó Conghailelizmurison.bsky.social @lizmurison.bsky.social · 13hExactly - as if we haven't been looking at the options for the last 10 years already 🤬 121
Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 1hNo, but he may set out a direction or options still. 010
Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 1hMassively. Well done to him. It will energise politics in so many places 100
Reposted by Niall Ó ConghaileJames Campbell @jamsamcam.bsky.social · 17hOne thing that may have flown under the radar is the new PM pledged to change the electoral system and run on a campaign to do that in next GE I don’t think it can be overstated how much that will change the dynamics. 141
Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 3hPS I suppose that makes potential UK accession very attractive in the short term? Might interest Jacob Öberg Chris Grey 120
Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 3hAnd the window seems to be shutting on Western interest too, as betting is that a new French president will have a different idea on accession. This is not great for the states concerned, but they and their electorates have to look at themselves. It is a terrible blow for UvdL Ends 130
Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 3hThe other part of this conversation you may be interested in: enlargement in the Western Balkans is as dead as Monty Python's parrot, and is being propped up only by fear of Russian and Chinese malignant influence 1 240
Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 4hPeople really need to cool their jets. We've been here before. And this so far looks very much like PMs Sunak and Starmer from the European side. 6212
Reposted by Niall Ó ConghaileMark Purchase 🏴 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 17hI think the least we expected from Burnham was far better "rhetoric" He is a politician by profession, and actually seems to like that he is unlike Starmer who hates politics, Sunak and Truss who were useless at politics and Johnson who was a crap journalist pretending to be a politican,or May 🤬 182
Reposted by Niall Ó ConghaileNick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 18h"This is the UK catching up on the missed decades since the financial crisis, at least in rhetoric." Id love Niall to be wrong here, but here he is unfortunately correct. Thats possibly (understatement alert) why it set such a positive wave. Unfortunately too, the UK is not alone on this. 031
Reposted by Niall Ó ConghaileMister Dac @misterdac.bsky.social · 18hOnce again, the majority of British people think that they have a different future from ours. We can’t change that. All we can do is preventing them from destroying ours. And that’s much. Our red lines. No cherry picking. No distortion of EU rules. Let’s be simple allies ; let’s appreciate that. 051
Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 10hWe habe interests too, among them avoiding wasting time 120
Reposted by Niall Ó ConghaileCatio Miles @catiomiles.bsky.social · 18hYup bsky.app/profile/cati... 131
Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 13hBasically it was like bad pizza. Decent but not great 020
Reposted by Niall Ó ConghaileMark Purchase 🏴 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 18hYes, saying that “Brexit has done more harm than good” is hardly a ringing endorsement of the benefits of being part of Europe In fact it makes you believe he actually thinks there are some positives from Brexit, just less than the negatives 371
Reposted by Niall Ó ConghaileJohn Doe @yoga-hobo.bsky.social · 19hI don't see how you can not have one. It would give the brexiters something to bang on about forever. Whereas an overwhelming win should mean no potential government would be able to go against it. How quickly do you think the Tories would pivot to pro rejoin if a ref gave a 60:40 rejoin result. 031
Reposted by Niall Ó Conghaileheepst @heepst.bsky.social · 19hSome things are negotiable. Others aren't. The four freedoms aren't. Demanding market access without freedom of movement is not just cherry-picking in my opinion, but an attack on the integrity of the Single Market. Stop attacking the EU and take the bleeding Turkey deal (customs union). 0102
Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 13hReally? You may need to nead it again, Andrew, particularly what it says about support of the Council 000
Reposted by Niall Ó ConghaileTom O'Connell @tomthegrinch.bsky.social · 23hNiall's argument is whether both the UK governments and the English are reall committed to the EU project, given the 40 odd years of Eurosceptism, opt outs and referendums on leaving. 321
Reposted by Niall Ó ConghaileTom O'Connell @tomthegrinch.bsky.social · 18hRiiiiigghht...so you block him but still follow his posts on the sly. He's not fluffing up, he's noting the difference between Burnham and his predecessor. I'm not convinced by Burnham yet. 221
Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 18hThey will want security that the UK actually wants this. A ref. is expected. 100
Reposted by Niall Ó ConghaileJon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 20hI at least believe that Burnham genuinely would like the UK to rejoin, which I didn't feel was ever the case with Starmer. 181
Reposted by Niall Ó ConghaileMáirtín Ó Loċlainn @mr--mo.eurosky.social · 20hSo your point in posting that article was, it doesn’t have any relevance. 111
Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 18hWhatever about the lack of positivity on Europe, PM Burnham's speech was remarkable in other ways. A lot of people will be asking why our leaders can't be like that? This is the UK catching up on the missed decades since the financial crisis, at least in rhetoric. 4175
Reposted by Niall Ó ConghaileKresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 20hBurnham is just going to kick the can further down the road and hope that those actually pro EU will accept a few nice words and nothing else as payment for their support of what remains a hard Brexit government. 041
Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 19hAs Nick says, he doesn't seem to get Europe and how it works and the effort required in the UK 030
Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 19hIt's clear he is doing this for party management, but I believe he acknowledges that Brexit hasn't worked out the way they hoped. The opportunity is to put pressure on him now to drop the exceptionalism and approach Europe positively 361
Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 19hPeople will draw inferences, rightly and logically, from you posting that in reply to complaints about exceptionalism. Please stop posting non-sequiturs 110
