Sun Tzu and sausages at Larne

This is probably the first time since July 2017 that I have been eagerly waiting on a ruling from the UK Supreme Court.

That was when they finally ruled that the tax scam operated by Rangers for a decade to gain an unfair sporting advantage over their rivals was illegal.

Alex Thomson of Channel 4 News had been following the story for years.

The assertions contained within that tweet are incontrovertible.

Of course, the football authorities and the Stenography Corps on Planet Fitba quickly looked the other way.

It is almost as if that decade of industrial-level cheating never happened.

The events of George Square in 2021 showed that there was a price to play for appeasing a fascist underclass.

I’m told that some of these…ahem… revellers were from the northeast of this country.

They are, apparently, proud of their Caledonian roots.

Well, if they ever feel the tug of the homeland, then slán abhaile!

There is also a klan connection to the court ruling two days ago.

That is why the featured image is in Ulsturr Scatch.

Alternatively, the graffiti person might be a member of the highly valued illiterati community in Narne Arne.

The UK Supreme Court ruled that the Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP) is indeed lawful.

A journalist colleague in Béal Feirste has suggested to me that the customs checks at the ports in Northern Ireland have probably had an adverse impact on the independent pharmaceutical sector in the Northeast of this country.

With the British government going for the hardest of hard Brexits, there was always going to be a reckoning with geography on this island.

This state remains a member of the European Union and shares a land border with the UK.

Hence the 300-mile border was a potential back door into the EU Single Market with goods that did not meet the appropriate quality standards.

This, in the jargon of Brexit, is “regulatory divergence” and is a particular danger if the UK decides to lower their food standards.

With Britain leaving the Single Market and Customs Unions, there was always going to be a border.

It was either going to be on the island of Ireland or in the Irish Sea.

When Boris met Leo in the Wirral in October 2019, the Etonian decided to throw the DUP and their Bradaish base under a big red bus.

That is why the NIP is part of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement (WA).

If the Brits go through with their threat to unilaterally tear up the NIP, then there will be many more scenes like this on the island of Britain.

That is because no NIP means no WA, and that is, effectively, an all-out trade war with the biggest trading block on the planet.

Now, for the avoidance of doubt, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wants that like a weekend of Ulsturr Scatch kulchurr at Chequers.

Consequently, the grownups who are currently negotiating in “the Tunnel” are working on the outline of a deal that both sides can live with.

So, we are going to hear a lot about “red and green lanes”.

This will streamline the operation of the NIP, and they might call it something else for the DUP to save face.

However, there will be border posts to carry out checks at the ports of Belfast and Larne.

In the end, this is, in many ways, a hilarious own goal for political unionism.

They have taken a trading issue and made it into an existential conflict about their identity.

The extent to which they are really secure in their Bradaishness is one thing.

However, I didn’t think it was dependent on where their sausages came from!

This is, of course, impossible to parody.

Never pick a fight that you are almost certain to lose, yet they have.

I can only surmise that the wise observations of Sun Tzu have not been translated into Ulsturr Scatch.

That’s a shame.

So it is…