The DUP, eh? Welcome to your new lizard overlords

[likesfish]

Intelligent nazis strike again

 

[newbie]

Anything to do with parades won't pass nobody in England thinks parading where you arnt wanted and screaming abuse about Catholics is ok.

Indeed. So if parades are part of the agreement we'll know for sure certain that May is useless at negotiation.

 

[bimble]

'I've always been clear, any deal is better than no deal'

 

[Pickman's model]

Indeed. So if parades are part of the agreement we'll know for sure certain that May is useless at negotiation.

May is useless at negotiation

 

[DexterTCN]

They're doing #DUPmovies on twitter. Some good ones too

Prejudice and Prejudice
On Her Majesty's Sectarian Service
Born on the Twelfth of July

and so on

 

[DexterTCN]

Sash Gordon
4000 Years BC
Perfect Stormount
Hun flew over the cuckoo's nest
One flute over the cuckoo's nest
Belfast and Furious

sorry I'll stop now

 

[ViolentPanda]

It's going to be interesting at the very least.

Mrs May has cornered herself with some very dubious colleagues.

I am surprised that she felt she had a mandate from her backbenchers to collude with these deplorable knuckle draggers. Despite being leader surely more consultation would be expected from her parliamentary party before this odious alignment?

At MOST, she's only obliged (morally, not legally) to consult her cabinet.

 

[ViolentPanda]

your lot were running the loyalist gangs anyway so nobody wants to look too closely at certain links do they

If we're going to pay attention to the facts, it was mostly the Green Slime (that's the oxymoronic Military Intelligence, as named by proper soldiers), RUC Special Branch and MI5 who ran the gangs and pseudo-gangs, not the British army per se.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

At MOST, she's only obliged (morally, not legally) to consult her cabinet.

And tbf the deep-seated tory instinct for survival seems to have kicked in for the moment. As someone said on another thread, they're tories - they'll take humiliation if it means a chance to stay in power over principled defeat any day. And there is no other option - the tories realistically can only form a govt with DUP backing, they can't risk the ultimate humiliation of failing to pass a queen's speech (has that ever happened for an incoming govt?).

We'll see what tomorrow brings. Seems they are shit-scared now of another election this year because they think they will lose it outright. But one absurd display of loyalty just means the delusional thinking is catching, that's all.

 

[ViolentPanda]

yeah but the ones you weren't running, the state knew about. I refuse to believe they didn't know about the shankhill butchers.

The state knew about everything, including the kiddie-bummers, and let the loyalists get on with it.

 

[DotCommunist]

The state knew about everything, including the kiddie-bummers, and let the loyalists get on with it.

oh yeah, kincora. How keen the state was to keep that one from the wider investigations of modern times

 

[not-bono-ever]

the LCC ( umbrella front for loyalist paramilitaries*) did back instruct its lot to back DUP candidates in the GE

Loyalist Communities Councils Homepage

Its pretty astounding that this lot- including alumni such as Mad dog and pup - effectively have access to pivotal representation in Westminster.

* terrorists, depending on your take - see other long threads on the minutae of this distinction

 

[Poi E]

DUP chief Foster tells Sinn Fein to pick Stormont or Westminster - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Cocky these days, aren't we Foster?

 

[gosub]

Anything to do with parades won't pass nobody in England thinks parading where you arnt wanted and screaming abuse about Catholics is ok.
Apart from Lewis on bonfire night and that's tradition

But it'll only be ONE day a year, which leaves a bit of scope for the Catholics. Say every First Friday in August they could blow up whatever they liked. Or an agreement on the maximum amount of fertiliser in a bomb...

 

[not-bono-ever]

The cost of getting the DUPpers onside is reckoned to be a billion quid or so and was drafted in march apparently -includes the lowering of the corporate tax to 12.5%, a ban on westmister incumbents getting any allowances if they do not take up their seats ( Shinners obvs ). fucking hell

 

[gosub]

The cost of getting the DUPpers onside is reckoned to be a billion quid or so and was drafted in march apparently -includes the lowering of the corporate tax to 12.5%, a ban on westmister incumbents getting any allowances if they do not take up their seats ( Shinners obvs ). fucking hell

Can we not rake some of that back with say a 'balaclava tax'

 

[flypanam]

You lot should check out Wee Willie Frazer, who is pushing the DUP to press for pardons for members of the security forces involved in killings in the troubles.

this is part of his shit Willie Frazer: Fenian-looking people are snaking about Markethill and watching me - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

 

[Idris2002]

You lot should check out Wee Willie Frazer, who is pushing the DUP to press for pardons for members of the security forces involved in killings in the troubles.

this is part of his shit Willie Frazer: Fenian-looking people are snaking about Markethill and watching me - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Fun fact; Frazer was denied a license for a personal protection weapon on the grounds that police were afraid that if he had a gun it would be "stolen" by loyalist paramilitaries.

 

[SpookyFrank]

DUP chief Foster tells Sinn Fein to pick Stormont or Westminster - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

That's definitely going to help resolve matters

 

[likesfish]

Fun fact; Frazer was denied a license for a personal protection weapon on the grounds that police were afraid that if he had a gun it would be "stolen" by loyalist paramilitaries.

Which is more polite than ffs frazer are you out of your fucking mind the mans a nutterI wouldn't trust him with a crayon

 

[Idris2002]

Which is more polite than ffs frazer are you out of your fucking mind the mans a nutterI wouldn't trust him with a crayon

And NI peelers are neither shrinking violets, nor unknown to be sympathetic to postures of loyalty.

 

[MochaSoul]

Has anyone heard anything about Sinn Féin taking their seats? The Sun is saying they are flying over and Reuters is live facebooking a press conference I can't watch because my stream is shit.

 

[Pickman's model]

Has anyone heard anything about Sinn Féin taking their seats? The Sun is saying they are flying over and Reuters is live facebooking a press conference I can't watch because my stream is shit.

they've taken up their offices before. but not the office to which they have been elected, they just take the frills.

 

[MochaSoul]

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they've taken up their offices before. but not the office to which they have been elected, they just take the frills.

Ah! Thanks Pickman's model

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

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they've taken up their offices before. but not the office to which they have been elected, they just take the frills.

Cheap booze.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Seven Deadly Sinns

 

[Pickman's model]

Seven Deadly Sinns

You know you're not allowed to laugh at murdoch humour

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

They may be scum but they give good pun.

 

[NoXion]

A rhyme in time makes a word crime sublime.

 

[Celyn]

...
this is part of his shit Willie Frazer: Fenian-looking people are snaking about Markethill and watching me - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

"Fenian-looking"? Wow!