Naomi Long MLA @naomi_long@respublicae.eu

@Lactrollsintol @1stBaronetDSO @_great_advice_ @Twitter @StaceyGraham90 I explained this elswhere and I think you two are desperate for me to block you, so you have your bias confirmed.

However, I rarely block, and only do so if people are deliberately disingenuous or abusive.

So far, you're both just about hanging in...lol

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@ONIP1966 @Lactrollsintol @Kelmba @NickDMathison @Tesco @JamieBrysonCPNI @BeattieDoug You're welcome.

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@1stBaronetDSO @Lactrollsintol @ONIP1966 @Kelmba @NickDMathison @Tesco @JamieBrysonCPNI @BeattieDoug Well, first off, it isn't literal, it's an idiom.

Secondly, it isn't humour or banter and I never said it was.

Thirdly, I'm not the Justice Minister.

Fourthly, "but she said" hasn'd been a defence since playschool.

And fifthly. I didn't defend its use.

So. There's that.

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@MaggieBrown13 @ONIP1966 @Kelmba @NickDMathison @Tesco @JamieBrysonCPNI @BeattieDoug Quite the reverse. Try reading to the end of the thread.

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@mgtruth @MLAsAndTheLike @NornEye Sadly, both are planning comebacks. Hence, the essential nature of such inquiries.

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Right, @Kelmba and @NickDMathison, you need to have a word with @Tesco 🤣🤣🤣🤣
RT @brogan_amc: Hey @Tesco, just wondering, why does your online map label the middle of Newtownards as "Mutantards"?

Because the laughing fit I'm having here is really interrupting my online grocery shopping focus 😂

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RT @KarenSethuraman: Time for reform.

Create a coalition of those willing to form a government and lead.

Our people deserve this.

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@Saraita101 @MLAsAndTheLike @PeterMBryson Why? It would still have been a mess?

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@NotaBot1976 "Agile as a cat"...

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RT @MichelleGuy4: If I wanted to represent a Unionist party: I would.

If I wanted to represent a Nationalist party: I would.

I choose to represent a party that is neither.

It’s a deliberate choice - I want a *new* context for NI politics. What we have, sustains division & delivers dysfunction.

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@jbrownfcf @stephenhenry127 That's what the DUP ought to be doing now. Take the Windsor Framework benefits, get back to work for NI and continue to make the case for positive change.

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@jbrownfcf @stephenhenry127 Because perfect should never be allowed to be the enemy of good.

We all had to compromise to make peace, here. That included me and Alliance.

We continued to make our case for change inside the democratic structures; working them as best we could, but proposing improvements.

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@stephenhenry127 @jbrownfcf But it's clear that they are now part of the problem and are perpetuating division and discrimination and creating instability.

That requires reform. We've suggested small changes that protect the basis of power-sharing but increase stability and incentives to work together.

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@stephenhenry127 @jbrownfcf No, I think STV is one of the fairest voting systems available. It allows your vote to have maximum influence, unlike FPTP.

I think the structures in the Assembly were always flawed, but we couldn't allow perfect to become the enemy of good.

We did our best to make them work.>

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@RangersFanNI @PatrickFVincent @europarl_en You asked a question that requires the stats, though. There are 7 ports and airports for NI entry. There are 300 border crossings along 310mi of border.

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@stephenhenry127 @jbrownfcf We were just as vocal, but we got less coverage as we were 7 and now were 17 and the 3rd largest party.

Reform has been in every manifesto.

You just cannot accept the answer, however many times I say it.

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@jbrownfcf @stephenhenry127 No, since 1999, when it first collapsed. But close enough.

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@gawanorniron @ToTravelIsToLi1 You haven't really read our proposals, have you?

Or any of our manifestos since 1998.

Or any of the DUP or TUV ones, either, have you?

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@jbrownfcf @stephenhenry127 Only if it's actually defamatory. So far, it's just silly.

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@stephenhenry127 @jbrownfcf Yep. It certainly summed up your approach.

Enjoy your day.

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