Need a total clear out and move more to the middle, so many dislikable MPs, too much scandal, backing Boris and getting shafted. I’m a Unionist and even I voted Alliance.
Not surprising, the only party supporting Brexit was the DUP, everyone else was remain and played the tactical card when choosing which constituencies to stand in.
Every deal shafted NI business. They just need to use the easy access to EU and take advantage of it.
Yeah I agree we must source our imports now from within the EU, and probably exporting to the EU would be much less bother than the paper work across the Irish Sea.
SF did exactly what they thought. They knew Eastwood was strong in Foyle and the picked up Fermanagh and South Tyrone. Was a good night for them.
Demographics too dont forget.
Of course.
Decent enough result. Absolutely massive us gaining NB from Dodds. Couldn’t believe Alliance won North Down either which is a brilliant result. First time ever Nationalist MP’s outnumber Unionists. It’s becoming more and more clear now that a new, United Ireland is the only way forward. Along with the results in Scotland the UK is clearly on borrowed time. The Alliance Party are growing massively and are taking votes from all 4 other major parties. Their voters will hold the key to a UI and need to be shown the economic benefits of it, inside the EU.
Honestly? As a Unionist sheer ignorance, the DUP has basically handed SF a border poll. They have been inept since Arlene took over.Wait and see the Doopers shite themselves now and try to get Stormont back up and running. They’re now completely irrelevant in Westminster again. Not sure how any self respecting Unionist actually voted for them this time though seeing as how their cosying up to the Tories effectively put a border in the Irish Sea
Repartition NI? Jesus I couldn’t see a bigger mess. Need to really sit down and flog our a pathway to a UI, what it would look like and put it to the people. It cannot go to the people without a working group paper.
Time to re-partition?
I wasn’t serious, although I do sometimes wonder if history might have played out very differently if the likes of south Armagh, south Down and south Fermanagh had gone to the Free State in the original partition.
Unfortunately DUP and SF are needed for further progress. They still are the main parties at Stormount.
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scary thought for some, nearly as scary as being Arlene's driver.
Dirty bitch.
Surely thon driver gets a bravery award or something for rolling around under the
sheets with Nick Cotton.seen that, does anyone know how he died. Always seemed the type that looked after himself, very sad, much too young to pass away
Very sad news indeed, I'd started listening to his RU show and quite liked it. Seemed like a nice guy - far too young.
Disgraceful that these charlatans, DUP and SF, manage to sort this out just to save there own skin. Next time it falls on its arse they should be allowed 2 weeks to sort it out or there will be an election
Seems the DUP and Sinn Fein are shutting out the other parties in this stage of negotiations too which would suggest to me that a deal really is close as they will want to own the "win" of getting it up and running again. Just shows how terrified they are of another election.
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Totally agree.
. Nice to see them concentrating on the big issues, fecking charlatans.There is Legislation in the deal for an ILA is there not? Ist just bolted on with the same for Ulster-Scots is how I read it. Im pretty sure SF dont give a feck about that.Looks like the SOS (and rightly so) has said get your act together of suffer more losses at an election. Looks like SF didn't get their language act more and amendment to the GFA act, and the DUP got the Ulster - Scot "language" in it too
I think SF were going for a standalone piece of legislation rather than a bolt on, probably not much of a difference but doesn't sound as good to the voting public. Ulster-Scots isn't even a fecking language its more of a dialect with different words even meaning different things depending where you come from.
Totally agree Julian Smith has a good set of Cahoonas, 3 years was just taking the piss on full pay.
Yeah I know but at the end of the day, stand alone or not they have got what they wanted.
So for me the Commisonner recommends XYZ regarding the Irish Language, and brings it to the FM and DFM for their approval, and only then it passes.
Yeah we love a veto, that's probably what has errked SF,. I have no problem with an Irish language act and promoting the culture but the fear is SF will demand ALL government documentation and possible road signs to be available and displayed in Irish which IMO is just a waste of time and money at this point in time. Stormount will always be in deadlock while the DUP and SF hold the majority so it makes little difference, its time for the people to actively protest on the scale that actually makes a difference to make these clowns do the job they are paid to do.
Like you I dont really care about the ILA or Ulster Scots. It wont make much difference to the ordinary person on the street.
It depends how you look at it I guess, SF want a UI and will do anything to stop NI working or at least grinding it to a stand still the feck wittery they could pull with an ILA, in theory, could do that. Since no one has seen or heard what SF actually want n this Act though its hard to know.
