DeeTillEhDeh Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 He would just have to have shouted a bit louder. YAAASSS MRS BUNFIELD . . . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenconner Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 3 hours ago, LongTimeLurker said: So now it's an internal feud rather than a "sectarian shooting" of a dude called Colin in Bangor. Guess The Guardian story can be taken somewhat seriously, if they can keep that part credible. Used to be a couple of great wee bookshops in Bangor. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Co.Down Hibee Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 3 hours ago, Glenconner said: Used to be a couple of great wee bookshops in Bangor. Bookends is a great second hand bookshop...just next to the train station. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arabdownunder Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 The Pickie Fun Park is Bangor's main attraction. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 9 hours ago, John Lambies Doos said: I hear the deal is done, will be announced tomorrow and hard brexit (leave single market and customs union still on cards) No obvious way to have a soft border with the RoI if that last bit is accurate, but EEA status would rip the Conservative party apart, so there was also no obvious compromise on staying in the single market and customs union either. Latest I've seen is another delay possibly into next week due to the tower block fire in London. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 So Tim Farron has resigned because he felt his religious beliefs and attitudes to some things might interfere with his ability to be an effective party leader. I imagine a lot of puzzled faces in the DUP. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 (edited) Hard Brexit it is then apparently: http://www.itv.com/news/2017-06-15/dup-backs-theresa-mays-vision-of-brexit-not-philip-hammonds/ I suspect all the DUPes ultimately care about in all of this given the existential threat to Ulster Unionism that was involved is what happens at Larne post-Brexit as someone else (i.e. RoI/EU) can always take the blame for customs checks emerging on the RoI border. The future's Scheidt, the future is economic meltdown, but nothing short of EEA was going to avert that and that would be very difficult for the Tories to achieve given the numbers involved and how few backbenchers going over to UKIP it would take to unravel their majority when the DUP are factored in. We now need Ruth Davidson and co to pull the rug out from under this and insist on a soft Brexit but fat chance of that. Edited June 15, 2017 by LongTimeLurker 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 I hear the deal is done, will be announced tomorrow and hard brexit (leave single market and customs union still on cards) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty dingus Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Theresa May deal with DUP puts her 'in breach of Good Friday agreement', warns Gerry Adams after Sinn Fein meeting at No 10 Old hatchet faces vanity looks as though it is going to unsettle the North just in time for marching season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 So a crippling, hard Brexit will be forced on Britain because the Tories are owned by 10 vile Irishmen who want the return of glory days of the 1600s when they could kill Catholics? What a place. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 5 minutes ago, Cerberus said: So a crippling, hard Brexit will be forced on Britain because the Tories are owned by 10 vile Irishmen who want the return of glory days of the 1600s when they could kill Catholics? ^^^Thinks the Williamite revolution was Irish. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Bizarre stuff like a lot of what gets posted in this particular subforum. If the pro-Remain wing of the Tories (Ruth Davidson included after what she said on the weekend) see the national interest as being more important than what's best in the short term for their party, then a hard Brexit won't happen. Not holding my breath on that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 I reckon post announcement tomorrow there could be some bother in NI. If so, May is seriously to blame 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 On 2017-6-14 at 21:24, LongTimeLurker said: The same side as Simon, Nigel and Geoffrey. I know a Catholic called Geoffrey. Splendid chap. I knew a particularly devout one called Simon too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenconner Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 6 hours ago, The_Kincardine said: ^^^Thinks the Williamite revolution was Irish. You tell them, Brother Kincardine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjw Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 Its nearly July they'll not need Theresa to give them any reason to smash up their own areas. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crùbag Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 13 hours ago, The_Kincardine said: ^^^Thinks the Williamite revolution was Irish. I am aware that the political and religious history/ present of Ireland is a quagmire of contradictions but the Orange Order are Irish though, no? Anyway, it looks as if the May's pals are now adoptign ISIS-style terror attacks. Not cool. Quote An Orangeman who "ploughed" into a crowd in north Belfast, trapping a teenage girl under his car, has been found guilty of injuring six people. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-40286410 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audaces Fortuna Juvat Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 13 hours ago, John Lambies Doos said: I reckon post announcement tomorrow there could be some bother in NI. If so, May is seriously to blame No, the people causing the bother are to blame, (and I don't give an airborne intercourse what side they are from - a scumbag is a scumbag). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 22 minutes ago, Crùbag said: I am aware that the political and religious history/ present of Ireland is a quagmire of contradictions but the Orange Order are Irish though, no? Anyway, it looks as if the May's pals are now adoptign ISIS-style terror attacks. Not cool. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-40286410 ...and on and on he drones with over the top exagerations. All you have to do to link the DUP to the UDA in a fairly convincing if not fully direct way is to explore the background of their candidate in Belfast West but why stick to something as boring as the facts when you can post absurd photoshop images and compare the LOL to ISIS. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 Anyone know the answer to this cryptic crossword clue? I'm stumped... I know it's an anagram of the last bit, but I can't work out the answer. Not quite a coalition agreement, confusingly, since DUP defy Con plan (10,3,6) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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