DUP and Tory f*ck up thread

[Lurdan]

(...) but its tradition rather than the genuine hatred (...)

So a bit like jokes about May and Foster being lesbians.

 

[existentialist]

So a bit like jokes about May and Foster being lesbians.

I took that joke as being a pop at traditional Tory/dup attitudes to homosexuality, rather than being a joke at the expense of lesbianism. Maybe I'm just too nice

 

[mojo pixy]

tbf I did think the same, 'jokes' about alcoholism and homosexuality seem aimed at winding up the teetotal and/or homophobic elements of the DUP's constituency.

 

[Casually Red]

Well this is embarrassing . A bit like loudly slagging off someone down the pub and having to sheepishly ring them up the next morning trying to borrow a 20 .

Theresa May 'called David Cameron' to beg for his support on DUP deal

Not dignified .

 

[teqniq]

This looks likely to be the start of it all coming unglued.

Theresa May's DUP deal to blame for new power-sharing crisis, Sinn Fein says

Sinn Fein has blamed Theresa May’s deal with the Democratic Unionist Party for the failure to restore power-sharing in Northern Ireland, as another crisis looms.

The DUP has been “emboldened” by propping up the Conservatives at Westminster, the Republican party claimed – making it less likely to compromise at Stormont.

The claim came as Sinn Fein confirmed the talks were failing. “We don’t think its likely there will be a deal in the short term,” said spokesman Conor Murphy....

 

[gawkrodger]

as predicted

DUP plans to vote with Labour on NHS pay and tuition fees

 

[DaveCinzano]

Come On Arlene and Close Personal Chum, the community activist Dee Stitt to her immediate right, on the occasion of giving North Down UDA Charter NI £1.7m

(Heard about this from cruising YouTube recently - covered in an episode of BBCNI's Spotlight from October; already been wiped from YT on copyright grounds.)

The Charter NI clusterfuck still causing ripples for the DUP:

Exclusive: DUP's Newton all smiles with UDA terror chief Birch - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

 

[weepiper]

Wasn't sure where to put this but it seems a significant and hopeful development for NI

 

[butchersapron]

Wasn't sure where to put this but it seems a significant and hopeful development for NI

Blimey, we really are in interesting times - if anyone didn't pick up on it, this is Harland and Wolff of all places.

 

[Idris2002]

Blimey, we really are in interesting times - if anyone didn't pick up on it, this is Harland and Wolff of all places.

Interesting times? This is a whole alternate history!

 

[weepiper]

 

[ruffneck23]

LBC reporting Arlene has resigned

 

[cupid_stunt]

LBC reporting Arlene has resigned

Yep, she's going.

Arlene Foster to step down as DUP leader and Northern Ireland's first minister, she tells Sky News

The politician's resignation comes after 75% of the DUP's Assembly members signed a letter demanding a leadership contest.

news.sky.com

 

[brogdale]

Yep, she's going.

Arlene Foster to step down as DUP leader and Northern Ireland's first minister, she tells Sky News

The politician's resignation comes after 75% of the DUP's Assembly members signed a letter demanding a leadership contest.

news.sky.com

DUP 'Leadership' contest, then?

 

[Ax^]

Ponders who the dumbest orange clad raving fuck wit in the party


think they will be picking that one

 

[cupid_stunt]

Trouble is, they will probably end up with a more hard-line leader.

 

[ddraig]

Tidy!

Arlene Foster announces resignation as DUP leader and NI first minister

Mrs Foster says she is stepping down as leader on 28 May and as NI first minister at the end of June.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Ax^]

Trouble is, they will probably end up with a more hard-line leader.

oh it all about getting a more hard line leader
will more than likely break off all cross the boarder of Ireland cooperation

Because the fuckwits in the DUP wanted to go with Brexit and are not happy with the results

 

[ska invita]

Potentially interesting new position to be taken by a new leader in relation to the NI Protocol which is set to be enforced later in the year ??

 

[philosophical]

She should have backed May’s ‘deal’.
If I remember rightly she used to vaguely go on about trusted trader stuff, technology at the border, declarations and so on as her get out clause in blocking May’s deal, but actually went all cakeist with fantasist hundreds and thousands sprinkled on top.
BTW has anybody heard any latest news about a technological EU/UK land border in Ireland?
Used to be all the rage.

 

[Ax^]

think the DUP lost some credibility international, when the forced a plaque on the giants causeway stating that "God did it"

 

[Artaxerxes]

think the DUP lost some credibility international, when the forced a plaque on the giants causeway stating that "God did it"

This implies the DUP ever had credibility with anyone.

 

[teqniq]

 

[seeformiles]

I went to school with idiots like this...

 

[TopCat]

Looks like the unionist vote will split again.

 

[Ax^]

did they all say No No No

 

[vanya]

If the word No was taken out of the language they'd be speechless.

 

[MrSpikey]

Trouble is, they will probably end up with a more hard-line leader.

I was worried about this too when I heard that Arlene abstaining in a vote to ban gay conversion therapy was the main driver for the resignation calls.

However, it turns out that all they are actually calling for is a "return to the...Christian values of our party".

I find the prospect of this new, other-cheek-turning, sinner-loving, peacemaker-blessing approach a breath of fresh air - well done, DUP!

 

[seeformiles]

I was worried about this too when I heard that Arlene abstaining in a vote to ban gay conversion therapy was the main driver for the resignation calls.

However, it turns out that all they are actually calling for is a "return to the...Christian values of our party".

I find the prospect of this new, other-cheek-turning, sinner-loving, peacemaker-blessing approach a breath of fresh air - well done, DUP!

Taking NI back to the 18th Century

 

[quiet guy]

I was worried about this too when I heard that Arlene abstaining in a vote to ban gay conversion therapy was the main driver for the resignation calls.

However, it turns out that all they are actually calling for is a "return to the...Christian values of our party".

I find the prospect of this new, other-cheek-turning, sinner-loving, peacemaker-blessing approach a breath of fresh air - well done, DUP!

Do you have to read that in your bestest Rev Ian Paisley accent?