Ireland (4 Viewers)

[Cormcolash]

How many days have there been where the DUP has made you happy?

None. Ever.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I want to deport white Irish people. Them lot are prone to being right shitheads altogether.

Padded jacket wearing gougers first.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

How many days have there been where the DUP has made you happy?

This is one of those rare days
I say we enjoy it

Alex Kane: Donaldson has pulled off a remarkable victory, but it’s too soon to abandon pessimism

Nothing is set in stone yet. We don’t know if the DUP will be hit by significant defections, or if Donaldson will be hounded and broken the way David Trimble was

www.irishtimes.com

Unionists are a great bunch of lads......a great bunch of BRITISH lads.

 

[ann post]

How many days have there been where the DUP has made you happy?

This is one of those rare days
I say we enjoy it

Alex Kane: Donaldson has pulled off a remarkable victory, but it’s too soon to abandon pessimism

Nothing is set in stone yet. We don’t know if the DUP will be hit by significant defections, or if Donaldson will be hounded and broken the way David Trimble was

www.irishtimes.com

Nothing is set in stone yet. We don’t know if the DUP will be hit by significant defections, or if Donaldson will be hounded and broken the way David Trimble was, or if Sunak will honour his promises​

I feel like we do.

 

[Deadmanposting]

None. Ever.

Maybe "less boilingly angry than most days" is probably what I was going for

 

[magicbastarder]

this passage is being discussed on bluesky - i don't know the source of the passage though.

 

[ann post]

this passage is being discussed on bluesky - i don't know the source of the passage though.

on the bluesky daily newspaper

Northern Ireland: what is the power-sharing deal – and could it be blocked? | Northern Ireland | The Guardian

 

[Deadmanposting]

this passage is being discussed on bluesky - i don't know the source of the passage though.

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That is bonkers to read tbh

Two parties drunk on ideology fucking up the lives of millions

I know all of this probably belong in the Brexit thread, but wasn't Brexit mostly about their fucking sausage ingredients and the shapes of their bananas or whatever Boris Johnson used to go on about in his newspaper column?






So riddle me this. Say you're some sap who owned a sweet factory in Suffolk or whatever, and when Brexit came along you could no longer export your sweets to the EU.
I seem to remember there was a bunch of sour grapes Brexit stories along these lines.

Now, Sunak says it's all good. As you were. EU Rules OK.
Is everything back on? Are all these lads back in business?
Or were all those stories overblown?

Also, has the DUP not blown up a chance for NornIron to be the ONLY PLACE where this lad could have sold his sweets to the EU?

 

[ann post]

I've honestly been slightly ignoring it because I'm jaded with Unionist anti-democracy meltdowns.

HOWEVER.

My flash in the pan though is that it looks on paper like NI are getting a special status
While in all reality if you want to sell your crap in cool Ireland, Great Britain or Europe you aren't going to be ignoring all those pesky european laws too much now, are you?

Enough to look good on paper and do minimal fuck all in practice.

 

[ann post]

Other side of the coin, make loads of substandard horrific stuff in britain, back door it to NI, run a shadow economy.

 

[Cormcolash]

I've a petrol tanker full of this diesel here if you're interested...

 

[Deadmanposting]

run a shadow economy

It's a core strength on this island



Downside of all this - Bertie back on the fecking radio

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Wonder if he has he opened a bank account yet?
Busy man.

 

[ernesto]

Wonder if he has he opened a bank account yet?
Busy man.

I hope he gets bit by a bus

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

I hope he gets bit by a bus

With an advert for a bank on it

 

[JohnnyRaz]

He should be locked in a press under a sink

 

[hydromancer]

Now, Sunak says it's all good. As you were. EU Rules OK.
Is everything back on? Are all these lads back in business?
Or were all those stories overblown?

I don't see how when they are officially not a part of the customs union. It does seem like an attempt by Sunak to back peddle in some way but the UK can hardly decide it is aligning itself to EU regulation without some sort of mutual agreement with the EU which would not be very brexit.
Of course the DUP decided it didn't like Theresa May's soft exit even though she gave them a billion to form a government but then neither did Labour or the ERG and others. None of them might have hade any say on the matter except for Gina Miller going to the supreme court.
After that Johnson was brought in to rescue everything and push a hard brexit through which never really got the chance to take off because at that point Covid took over all the news headlines.
Which reminds me the UK should really have a general election this year.
I like to think of Northern Ireland as a compromise where neither side gets everything they want but both sides get enough and that it should maybe stay that way for some time. I think there is very large middle ground there anyway that doesn't have a hard opinion either way even if the two largest parties do.

 

[Deadmanposting]

I like to think of Northern Ireland as a compromise where neither side gets everything they want but both sides get enough and that it should maybe stay that way for some time. I think there is very large middle ground there anyway that doesn't have a hard opinion either way even if the two largest parties do.

This is how it should be, but one particular party is kicking and screaming against any change.

What makes Northern politics interesting - apart from the fact that partition is a goddamn crime and we belong as one island imho - is we get to see what it would be like if we unfroze a bunch of Cromwell's army and had them form a political party that was active in the 21st century.
These lads would burn witches if you let them.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Cromwell's

Years ago my friend was living in Lincoln and he went out for drinks in the local pub that did a range of its own beers. One of the beers he was given was called “Cromwell’s Bitter” - and my friend was all like “Cromwell’s bitter? CROMWELL’S bitter?” and none of the English folk knew what he was talking about.

 

[magicbastarder]

the problem with the irish is that they don't forget. the problem with the english is that they don't remember.