DUP and Tory f*ck up thread

[frogwoman]

Thought this might be useful for documenting the horrors, incompetence, bigotry etc of the forthcoming coalition of chaos...

 

[DaveCinzano]

Just parking this here - from 2 June, but none outside the Northern Irish press seemed to pick it up at the time (I spotted it via Google Alerts):

UDA endorses DUP's Pengelly in South Belfast - Foster feeling the heat - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

 

[Magnus McGinty]

What connects Brexit, the DUP, dark money and a Saudi prince?

 

[LiamO]

Ahem...

The DUP, eh? Welcome to your new lizard overlords

 

[Cid]

Ahem...

The DUP, eh? Welcome to your new lizard overlords

Yours is more a schooling on the DUP thread... This one will be the ongoing DUPservative clusterfuck.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Believing that Giant's Causeway was built by actual giants.

 

[SqueakyBumTime]

They probably think they can do better than a bunch of folks from a small time Internet forum.

 

[starfish]

Fuck the DUP. Bigotted Orange bastards.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Believing that Giant's Causeway was built by actual giants.

I'd like to know their thoughts on Cribbs Causeway shopping mall to the north of Bristol

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Yours is more a schooling on the DUP thread... This one will be the ongoing DUPservative clusterfuck.

Tbh I prefer many threads with slightly differing context, than the mega threads you have zero chance of catching up on if you hold down a full time job and have interests other than the internet.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Tbh I prefer many threads with slightly differing context, than the mega threads you have zero chance of catching up on if you hold down a full time job and have interests other than the internet.

We'll have none of that defeatist talk here young laddie

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Yeah but you can multitask.

 

[8den]

I'll need to dig up the links, but the DUP/UVF/UDA have had extensive links to the British far right. Fairly certain David Copeland the Admiral Duncan bomber got Loyalist paramilitary training.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'll need to dig up the links, but the DUP/UVF/UDA have had extensive links to the British far right. Fairly certain David Copeland the Admiral Duncan bomber got Loyalist paramilitary training.

And the ulster-british alliance

 

[frogwoman]

This one will be the ongoing DUPservative clusterfuck.

That's what I intend it to be yeah.

 

[frogwoman]

Believing that Giant's Causeway was built by actual giants.

 

[rich!]

I'd like to know their thoughts on Cribbs Causeway shopping mall to the north of Bristol

It's a mis-spelling of Crips. Bristol slave traders could only ship Bloods to the US, so they had to sell the Crips locally.

 

[Kaka Tim]

BREAK: DUP has NOT yet reached any agreement with the Tories. Sky sources: Downing Street issued the wrong statement in error.

from sky news ireland correspondent.

oopps

 

[Casually Red]

Believing that Giant's Causeway was built by actual giants.

4000 years ago . And making the visitors centre point this out to the tourists .

 

[Raheem]

Wrong statement in error. What are the chances, eh?

 

[Dom Traynor]

The entertainment is not over yet is it?

 

[Casually Red]

from sky news ireland correspondent.

oopps

Something funny going on there . There's been a " fuck me..the DUP " moment somewhere among the Tory ranks I reckon . or quite possibly somebody with half a brain has had a look at one of the DUP concessions ...thought it through ..and gone " whhoooahh " . If the Tories are going to let orange marches through nationalist districts the " peace process ", Stormont...the lot..is over and done with . It's kaput . And yet it'll be a major DUP demand , if not a key one . That bit on their website about " strengthening British identity and the union " ..that's precisely what that means . Something along those lines .

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

As if one orange wanker in the white house wasn't enough.

 

[Casually Red]

Wrong statement in error. What are the chances, eh?

As slim as a gay brontosaurus line dancing through the Vatican while singing the sash . Pretty much . I'd believe creationism before I'd believe that massive fib .

There's been a huge policy related fuck up already is what's happened .

 

[Casually Red]

The entertainment is not over yet is it?

 

[CrabbedOne]

It seems all is not well with the CON-DUP pact. The DUP are still not happy with what May is offering them as well as Tories getting itchy about the whole thing being too "Nasty Party". I mean on climate and social issues it's like Donald Trump was US President and you had to work with him. Yes that bad. With the added complication of slanting the British position on island of Ireland issues that only a handful of Tories give a damn about.

However look at the DUP voting record:

From Slugger Our Friends in the North? The DUP and the Tories aren’t ideologically close

...
The DUP were essentially halfway between the two largest parties, tending to vote with Labour on fiscal matters but further to the right on social policy. Bear in mind that this was when the Liberal Democrats were in a coalition government, and therefore voted with the Tories more often than they do now.
...

Oh dear, oh dear. Fiscally the DUP are basically Ed Milliband. This could impede May's state shrinking agenda which is the basic Tory mission. At best every time May hacks away public services the DUP will pop up demanding an exception for Northern Ireland. At worst they'll say "Ulster is British" and block it entirely. This is likely to be very divisive amongst Tories.

And then there's the DUP's frustrating preference for not proudly flouncing out of the EU the Customs Union which will inflame Hard Brexiters. Staying in the Customs Union also may not even be something the Brexit talks can achieve at least not with a good deal of grovelling. This is a recipe for Tory humiliation.

It's these last two things that'll really bugger this up.

 

[bi0boy]

Got to love a graph with no axis labels.

 

[gosub]

Got to love a graph with no axis labels.

Lib Dems close to zero. what more do you need?

 

[Artaxerxes]

Something funny going on there . There's been a " fuck me..the DUP " moment somewhere among the Tory ranks I reckon . or quite possibly somebody with half a brain has had a look at one of the DUP concessions ...thought it through ..and gone " whhoooahh " . If the Tories are going to let orange marches through nationalist districts the " peace process ", Stormont...the lot..is over and done with . It's kaput . And yet it'll be a major DUP demand , if not a key one . That bit on their website about " strengthening British identity and the union " ..that's precisely what that means . Something along those lines .

Maybe they want a hard border and even the conservatives are saying 'you mental bastards are going to start the troubles again'

 

[Who PhD]

Believing that Giant's Causeway was built by actual giants.

Believing there are actual giants