Jacksgranda Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 9 minutes ago, 101 said: What's the feeling like in your neck of the woods @Jacksgranda. Hoping a SF victory doesn't fuel any more Irish Sea Border style attacks. Certainly a big day for the UK, suprised it's not getting more coverage if SF win and the DUP basically say "am no playing with you" then the UK government need to act swiftly to bring a resolution in before anything kicks off can't have an election result ignored because one party isn't too keen to play second fiddle. The only people getting excited about this are the political commentators as far as I can see, total apathy seems to be the mood, although I suppose most folk will drag themselves out to vote. By doing what, exactly? Sinn Fein haven't really a lot of the moral high ground to stand on seeing as they collapsed Stormont for 3 years (albeit under different - and some would argue less reasonable - circumstances). But it wouldn't do the DUP any great favours in the wider community by not entering government or nominating a Deputy First minister, imho. Apparently they've 24 weeks to make up their mind. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 32 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said: The only people getting excited about this are the political commentators as far as I can see, total apathy seems to be the mood, although I suppose most folk will drag themselves out to vote. By doing what, exactly? Sinn Fein haven't really a lot of the moral high ground to stand on seeing as they collapsed Stormont for 3 years (albeit under different - and some would argue less reasonable - circumstances). But it wouldn't do the DUP any great favours in the wider community by not entering government or nominating a Deputy First minister, imho. Apparently they've 24 weeks to make up their mind. Total apathy seems to be the feeling right across the UK, so no surprise it's made its way across the Irish sea. Yeh moral high ground will be lacking in this situation but I expect a fury to be sipped up all the same. 24 weeks without a government is a sham although considering the period without a government before it doesn't seem so bad 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 (edited) 30 minutes ago, 101 said: Total apathy seems to be the feeling right across the UK, so no surprise it's made its way across the Irish sea. Yeh moral high ground will be lacking in this situation but I expect a fury to be sipped up all the same. 24 weeks without a government is a sham although considering the period without a government before it doesn't seem so bad It might not take 24 weeks, they might just say no thanks. However, if Alliance* come second and redesignate themselves as unionist, game on. (I've no idea if that is likely, or even possible.) Maybe @sparky88 knows. *ETA: That might cause Alliance problems with their nationalist inclined voters. Edited May 5, 2022 by Jacksgranda 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 That's my 11 votes cast. Polling station seemed quiet, there looked like more officials than voters. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 Poor Sammy's been banned from Russia after a wee slip up. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/russia-adds-three-more-dup-mps-to-sanctions-list-41752834.html 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PossilYM Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 So the latest big news from the Failed State is the 2021 Census figures. Going forward politically it looks like one community has a massive majority in the over 50s who'll need to be looked after by the other community who have massive majority in the under 30s. Believe it's called the politics of inter dependency. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stingraypoindexter Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 Ewan Mcgregor for next NI minister: You and the DUP form a simbiant circle. What happens to one of you affects the other. You must understand this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 (edited) 6m ago13.47 BST The Northern Ireland secretary, Chris Heaton-Harris, is holding last-ditch talks with the region’s party leaders to try to restore devolved government and avert an assembly election. If the meetings in Belfast on Wednesday do not yield a breakthrough that revives power-sharing on Thursday Heaton-Harris is expected to call an election, tipping Northern Ireland into further uncertainty. Gloom shrouded the talks because the Democratic Unionist party (DUP) has vowed to continue its boycott of the Stormont executive unless the party’s objections to the post-Brexit Irish Sea border are resolved. Edited October 26, 2022 by Florentine_Pogen 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 1 hour ago, Florentine_Pogen said: 6m ago13.47 BST The Northern Ireland secretary, Chris Heaton-Harris, is holding last-ditch talks with the region’s party leaders to try to restore devolved government and avert an assembly election. If the meetings in Belfast on Wednesday do not yield a breakthrough that revives power-sharing on Thursday Heaton-Harris is expected to call an election, tipping Northern Ireland into further uncertainty. Gloom shrouded the talks because the Democratic Unionist party (DUP) has vowed to continue its boycott of the Stormont executive unless the party’s objections to the post-Brexit Irish Sea border are resolved. No it won't, the result will be the same as the last time, Sinn Fein might screw another seat off the SDLP, the DUP could lose one to either Alliance/TUV/UUP.so much the same as the last time, i.e no Assembly. The best I can see is a Speaker being elected which would get some spending plans approved, as I understand it. 1 hour ago, BudBudBud said: If Heaton-Harris wants the assembly up and running, then he should put pressure on his colleagues to get rid of the Protocol, thus upholding the Act of Union and Good Friday Agreement. It really is that simple. That won't happen. There may be tinkering round the edges of the Protocol, which might get the DUP off the hook, claim a victory and return to Stormont. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 SF +1, DUP - 1, Somebody else + 1 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Golden God Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 What is the DUP’d problem with the Protocol? Do they have any legitimate issues or are they whinging just cause it makes them feel a bit less British. Serious question, they’ve been moaning about it for ever and I’ve still no clue as to what the actual problem is. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 This is the fist time I've ever seen the Northern Irish assembly on the telly. What a rabble. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btb Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 Toys out the pram! Quote Northern Ireland faces another Stormont assembly election just seven months after the previous one, after the DUP confirmed it will continue to block the formation of a new executive. Seems to me the DUP are less a political party and more a fundamentalist group - they'd do well to remember as Sir Edward Carson said that the Tories are not their friends. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 46 minutes ago, btb said: Toys out the pram! Seems to me the DUP are less a political party and more a fundamentalist group - they'd do well to remember as Sir Edward Carson said that the Tories are not their friends. The thing is another election won’t make a blind bit of difference other than to maybe delegitimise the whole system in the eyes of the electorate. We should just cut links with NI and let the folk there go on their own merry way. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 3 hours ago, The Golden God said: What is the DUP’d problem with the Protocol? Do they have any legitimate issues or are they whinging just cause it makes them feel a bit less British. Serious question, they’ve been moaning about it for ever and I’ve still no clue as to what the actual problem is. They don't want any trade barriers on the island of Ireland and don't want them NI-GB. But they also want Brexit. They want the impossible, essentially. Those three things cannot exist together. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effeffsee_the2nd Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 55 minutes ago, btb said: Toys out the pram! Seems to me the DUP are less a political party and more a fundamentalist group - they'd do well to remember as Sir Edward Carson said that the Tories are not their friends. heavy vibes of "it's ma baw" here 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O'Kelly Isley III Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 5 minutes ago, Granny Danger said: The thing is another election won’t make a blind bit of difference other than to maybe delegitimise the whole system in the eyes of the electorate. We should just cut links with NI and let the folk there go on their own merry way. There's maybe more to that throwaway remark than you think Granny. I listened this morning to a radio interview with a resident of NI who cited three younger members of his extended family who in the last six months have upped sticks and moved to the UK mainland. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 7 minutes ago, Michael W said: They don't want any trade barriers on the island of Ireland and don't want them NI-GB. But they also want Brexit. They want the impossible, essentially. Those three things cannot exist together. What they don't seem to grasp is that the NIP potentially makes NI one of the most attractive places in the UK for inward investment because of the ability to have a foot in both camps. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 1 hour ago, LongTimeLurker said: What they don't seem to grasp is that the NIP potentially makes NI one of the most attractive places in the UK for inward investment because of the ability to have a foot in both camps. Oh they understand they just don’t care The majority of voters in NI voted to remain, they supported Brexit as they wanted a hard border with the rest of Ireland Keeping in mind the DUP do not support the Good Friday Agreement 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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