(As do New Roman and Calibri I guess!)

Rubio sounds like an Italic name

"Stir(r)up controversy"

Well, im 58, so ... 😉

Yeah, but there also research that shows cognitive decline starts on average from about 50, so somethings gotta give!

Republican Unity

Yea although that allowed hard leftists hold sway on foreign policy for a while, particularly as right and centre left didnt want to know them anyway

Just a parliament resolution, to get onto statutebook would need to go thru huge process in Council with the 27 MS govts, regulatory assessments, consultations etc. Legislation practically never gets thru initiated in Parl, and this proposal shows why, Commission would know itd never get through QMV

. ...Current discourse is pushing that to resolution, signs are that latter will win that struggle, with SF already egging FG on to be more anti immigration

There's also been some tension though in Irish Republicanism. Was always IME huge gulf in the internationalism of SF, rooted at elite level in anti imperialist (mutual) solidarity with ANC, PLO &c, with much of their electorate who had the views one might expect of radical nationalist voters...

roses are red, violets are funky,