It's one of the most popular destinations for all foreign tourists to Northern Ireland. Every day all day, buses and local taxis running tours bringing foreigners up the Falls to look at the murals - look up Northumberland Street murals on Google. Massively more visited than any other part of the city. Who's going to take it down LL?
FFS, 15 years ago? Getting desperate. I went to a football match to enjoy football. Does that mean that even though I wore my Leeds top, by association I support Manchester United because they were there? That's effectively what your 'reports' are saying.
Can I just make a point about the GE vote in Scotland. Some of you don't seem to understand what's happened up there (and I wouldn't really expect you to, tbh). I shall be as brief as possible. For at least a couple of GEs before Indyref, SNP only had about 6 UK seats. Labour had about 41, & LDs had 11, with the tories trailing with their typical 1. After the shenanigans of Indyref, there was an unprecedented protest vote to give the SNP 56 out of 59 seats. Everyone was surprised, including the SNP. At this election, it was expected, and loudly declared so, that people would return to their previous voting loyalties, as the protest had already been made & reparations commenced. SNP expected a huge hit, and were clear that if they got a majority, they would be chuffed to bits & still have an Indy mandate. They not only got the 30 seats required for this - they got 35. A resounding victory, & still almost 6 times the pre-Indyref tally. The one thing I cannot explain is why the tories got 13 seats. I can't find anyone up there that can explain it to me. They're as confused as I am. I have to assume it's Brexit thing, but have no idea of the complexities of it. But that's democracy! So, just to be clear about one thing - this was not a defeat for the SNP. They are tickled pink to have a six-fold increase, effectively, and cannot believe their luck.
Rev you've learned nothing about irish politics on this forum in the last week. No unbiased views as you've said. I've recently read a very unbiased book. Can,t remember the name of the author but I will let you know in the morning of you're interested. But right now the.room is spinning and I'm drunk as fook
I'll be so happy if May gets even a tiny bit of hassle like this - especially as it's self-inflicted.
Cat amongst the pigeons. I expect the same fervour from Chesh & co .. Discuss ..... http://www.irishnews.com/news/2016/...r-being-pictured-with-a-uda-commander-760193/
Another little gem. Old Teaser knows how to pick 'em, doesn't she? http://www.thejournal.ie/sammy-wilson-breastfeeding-2890822-Jul2016/
Oh dear, a constitutional crisis of the torys own making. Might have to go cap in hand to the LDs. Genuine question - why didn't they? Why the DUP? https://skwawkbox.org/2017/06/10/mays-coalition-cant-work-because-of-a-tory-law-badfridayagreement/
You really should try and understand your own posts Jock, tell me which party has a massive English only majority.yes that's right the Tories do,been had by fake news again Jock
Thought I'd missed something so I'm glad you see it the same way. Discount DUP and SNP votes and Tories can push any vote home.
What has English got to do with it. Its a uk government and even if your point had any merit if you consider the majority massive you are wrong,
If they're bringing money into the economy I suppose it's a fair point Davy, but it would also be a constant reminder, maybe that's the point for the tourism, I don't know. I did two tours of N/Ireland back in 70's, back then it made the streets look degraded and unkept, but showed the troubles that was going on in NI at the time. Jock said "But you never made it to Special Services, did you? You were a cannon fodder squaddie who jumped ship when we started going to war, weren't you?".......oops.... I noticed from the pic they're at Divis street, where, or near where Divis flats used to be, which brought a reminder of an incident we had there one night, unintentional of course. To paint the picture for some, After the incident pictures and jokes started appearing on notice boards etc, along the lines of "what's small and red and goes up and down" Long Kesh was/is the prison which had the infamous H Blocks where they kept the IRA terrorists. Our job, along with all the other units which circled the prison was to help prevent, and assist in recapturing any escaping inmates before they could get too far. Like every other unit, we also had to do street patrols. One afternoon we came back from a street patrol, later 3 mates decided they were going out on the town, which we were allowed to do, but not allowed in no go areas; no go areas were areas Squaddies were not allowed to enter because of the high risks, it was also a night our unit weren't hosting the disco. They asked around to see if any of us wanted to go, we all said no, we're going to one of the other units discos. Anyway they went out, but along the way decided to take one of units civilian cars, a red mini, and headed toward Belfast The story goes, as they told it, they drove around and visited a couple of pubs that were deemed no risk for British Squaddies. Anyway, as the night got older they got drunker, then eventually decided to drive back, around 1 or 2am from memory. As it happens, they got lost and were driving around looking for some landmark they could recognise, and they found one. It was very dark and they decided to stop and have a look around, one got out the car and quickly got back in again, he said "effing hell, it's Divis flats". For those who don't know, Divis flats was known as a notorious area, and it was a suspect IRA hide out, basically it had become a slum area, it's also the place a British Squaddie was captured, taken there and murdered by the IRA. Anyway, after talking it over, they decided to get out and have a look to see how they could get back to camp, they walked around apparently for about an hour, then decided to go back to the car cos they couldn't just leave it there. When they got back to the car, they found the bomb squad had cordoned of the area and were just about to blow the mini up as a suspected car with a car bomb. They got back just in time to watch the bomb squad blow the mini up, it went straight up in the air and came down and crashed onto the ground smashing into quite a few spare parts. We also got the stories of how scary it was for'em. Hence the jokes appearing on notice boards "what's small and red and goes up and down"......"a red blown up mini".....
It's simple, Tories took 12 seats from SNP, Labour took 6 seats, Lib Dems took 3........simple maths really.
