#OTD 10 April 1998, the Good Friday Agreement was signed, marking a step towards ending decades of violence in Northern Ireland.
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Unfortunatelty, huge swathes of the Good Friday Agreement was watered down or left completely unimplemented, not least of which was our Bill Of Rights, and the North is suffering today. The rot started with Mandleson in 1999.
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Thus solving the problem once, and for all...
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...and the Brits never did anything stupid to jeopardise it again...
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It's so nice that the Brits stopped their colonialism and persecution of indigenous peoples.

/s in case Starmer reads this.
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It established a devolved, power-sharing government at Stormont and set out arrangements covering governance, security, human rights, and relations between N Ireland, Rep of Ireland, & the wider UK. The agreement was endorsed by voters in referendums held in both NI & ROI
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