The Irish protocol.

How is the phrase "native culture" a disgusting phrase? If somebody was taking about a place X and culture that was native to X. How can you phrase this without being disgusting btw?

His current position appears to be - ahem - rapidly evolving, but (as far as I can make it out) he wants France to have the power to set its own annual quota on (non-EU) immigration, and not to be subject to ECJ jurisdiction in relation to immigration.

You can form your own opinion as to the intrinsic merits of that position, but it's clearly wrong to say that "he was adamant that certain things should be imposed on the non Eu people in NI that he would now like his Eu french people released off". I'm not aware that Barnier ever proposed that the UK should not be able to control immigration into NI, or that NI should be subject to ECJ jurisdiction on matters of immigration.

It seems to me that Barnier is effectively calling for France to withdraw from the Schengen agreements, or (more plausibly) to pursue modifications to the Schengen agreements so that France (and, presumably, other participants) can set immigration quotas in the way described, without being at risk of having them overturned in the courts. But none of this is relevant to the UK, which was never a party to the Schengen agreements, and was always free to regulate non-EU immigration as it wished (and is still free today to do that in respect of Northern Ireland).

Is there any reason as to why a NI supporters club is private? Kind of strange for such a group to be restricted to members only.

The following are native to Ireland and previous to the Ulster plantation.

1. Irish language.
2. Celtic art/design (Newgrange etc).
3. Mythology (Cú Chulainn, Queen Maeve) Mistic island etc.
4. Monasteries which were centres of education/craftmanship where people travelled from all over Europe to learn - i.e., Clonmacnoise.
5. Trad music and dancing
6. Brehon Laws very influential on how we behave as a people - for example Irish hospitality is a tradition from those laws.

Last but not least - 7. Gaelic Sports - hurling is fairly unique to Ireland (shinty in Scotland) and is regarded as one of the oldest sports in the world.

There is a few examples of native Irish culture that were all here well before the arrival of your ancestors.

I'd read it as him setting the Irish community up as natives, whether they're Catholic, Protestant or anything else.....given that we're talking about Ireland, I don't think it's particularly controversial to refer to Irish culture as the native culture of the land (though acknowledging that, as with every culture, it is a bit more complicated than that).

Plantation of Ulster?

That was me. But I didn't say that the court case "had died and was over"; just that the case was lost and, although the claimants had said they would appeal, I couldn't find anything online to confirm that they ever did. I pointed out that their own crowdfunding page had not been updated since May, and so made no mention either of the verdict in the High Court or of any appeal. That is still the case today: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/defending-the-union-of-the-uk/. So they clearly don't feel much need to communicate with their supporters.

Obviously, from Habib's tweet today they did appeal, but he still can't be arsed to update his followers and supporters with, e.g. a few hints as to what the grounds of appeal might be. He's got as much of their money as he is ever likely to get; he doesn't need them any more.

I'm not sure what you mean by "setting it up as win/lose". It's a court case; he'll either win it or lose it. That's pretty much how court cases work. He'll either get the declaration he is seeking, or he won't. [Spoiler: He won't get the declaration he is seeking.]

I think you may be a bit closer to the mark with the court case not being needed as "all signs are that the movement has begun to removing the unnecessary sea checks". You're possibly being a little overoptimistic here; Frost is still banging on about renegotiating the Protocol and/or suspending it, but there have been other signs that the UK has finally decided to engage with the process and utilise the mechanisms available to negotiate changes to the implementation of the Protocol. If the wiser head prevail in this interminable intra-Tory dispute Frost may yet be sidelined. And this should indeed result in any unnecessary sea checks being removed, while necessary ones are retained.

Thats not what Tom did: Here is his quote.

“Must be difficult being a unionist who reflexively despises the native culture while espousing 'diversity'.”

Its native culture not natives.

Anyway - any thoughts on the differences between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill!