Yep. We should be rolling with this.
Unlike Raab probably understood importance of Dover/Calais trade though.Reminds me of the NI secretary that had to have it explained to her about the political divisions for voting in NI.
As an Irish person living in england it never ceases to amaze me how poorly informed British people in general are about the NI situation, (present company mostly excepted). I don't blame them at all, I blame the education system and the media. Politicians have no such excuse but the current crop is so fucking ignorant, Gullis, Anderson, Braverman et al.
I do have a foot in both camps as I have lived here most of my life and mum is Scottish, now naturalised Irish citizen, so I am more London Irish than jackeen but Dublin is, ultimately, home.
My dad has a particular gripe with the Guardian as they are invariably shit on Ireland and should be better at it in his opinion.
However, quote from Graun, sorry dad!
"Karen Bradley has admitted that before becoming Northern Ireland secretary she was profoundly ignorant of the country’s political divisions and “slightly scared” of the place.
She said she was unaware that nationalists did not vote for unionists and that unionists did not vote for nationalists – the most elementary fact about Northern Ireland politics."
Absolute turn up for the books that this was what everyone at o87 Towers would agree with the Tories about.
I didn't say she was afraid of challenging him. She doesn't have the political capability/base. She's got nothing but a culture war that only really excites about 15% of the electorate, if I remember the polls correctly, all of whom vote Tory anyway except when they voted UKIP. And I don't see her having many supporters in the parliamentary party. You rarely see anyone come out to defend her. She has no base apart from culture warriors who can tolerate people who aren't white, and who knows what percentage of them that is - I wouldn't want to bet my political career on that group.
Nah.
I think he'll last slightly longer.
We should email our MPs asking them to congratulate the Home Secretary for having the courage to come out and say it.
I’ve done this. Nothing wrong with stirring the pot a bit.
I am chuckling. How can someone not know the basic sectarian voting pattern in Northern Ireland?Reminds me of the NI secretary that had to have it explained to her about the political divisions for voting in NI.
As an Irish person living in england it never ceases to amaze me how poorly informed British people in general are about the NI situation, (present company mostly excepted). I don't blame them at all, I blame the education system and the media. Politicians have no such excuse but the current crop is so fucking ignorant, Gullis, Anderson, Braverman et al.
I do have a foot in both camps as I have lived here most of my life and mum is Scottish, now naturalised Irish citizen, so I am more London Irish than jackeen but Dublin is, ultimately, home.
My dad has a particular gripe with the Guardian as they are invariably shit on Ireland and should be better at it in his opinion.
However, quote from Graun, sorry dad!
"Karen Bradley has admitted that before becoming Northern Ireland secretary she was profoundly ignorant of the country’s political divisions and “slightly scared” of the place.
She said she was unaware that nationalists did not vote for unionists and that unionists did not vote for nationalists – the most elementary fact about Northern Ireland politics."
Task. Everyone knows it's Enya.
Yes, but were these people Members of Parliament?
