Guys like me need to get out of town. I mean, they they’re already doing what they so often do, trying to spew resentment against us for showing up in the first place. Which I think is funny because I think showing up in the first place helped you get you to where we are now.
This seemed to be aimed at more extreme unionists opposed to Clinton being in Belfast, not Donaldson and the DUP, although it was hard to tell. Clinton also joked, in another part of his speech, about how long he had been in the city. He said: I have been here so long that I am reliably informed that I will owe taxes if I am not gone in 48 hours.This Windsor agreement – seems to me anyway, as an outsider who cares very much – is about the best deal you could get to split the baby.
It has the benefits of access to the European markets, and the necessity of access to the UK market, to be reconciled in a way that will permit the best of both worlds – something that, as far as I can tell, nobody else with this kind of access to the EU has in their domestic market. I don’t think there’s anything quite like.Because no matter how good any deal is, how much endurance there is, what really matters is how long it has a hold of people’s imagination and trust.
He claimed the idea that those involved in the Good Friday agreement process were better than people today as “the biggest load of bull I ever heard in my life”.Those of us who were there then should thank God every day that we were lucky enough to be where we were to have an opportunity when time and circumstances permitted to play a small role in a big lift in the human condition.Bill Clinton at Queen’s University Belfast this afternoon.