You'll agree that favouring one side over the other in NI is very irresponsible and could threaten the fragile peace there though?
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You'll agree that favouring one side over the other in NI is very irresponsible and could threaten the fragile peace there though?
Exactly, the essence of the Good Friday Agreement was power sharing, along with an open border. Favouring the DUP was bound to get the Republican extremists like the Real IRA twitchy.
If we end up with a hard border after Brexit the gloves will be off.
I guess we didn't have a choice I can't see us favouring any of the others especially Sinn Fein..........As I have said on numerous occasions there is no need to have any border issues but it needs sorting and I can't see either of the new candidates sorting it out satisfactorily.
There is always a moral and correct choice and that wasn't one IMO Beddy....
It was a self interested cling on to power at any cost choice.
I'm not a politician but there were lots of other ways of sharing power with a different coalition.
I think they took their only choice. It still would have been a coalition though....just the same. Never have liked them but that’s how it is.
Edit .......Always thought of coalitions as the tail wagging the dog........
And giving a party favouring a Hard Brexit power, when the majority in NI voted Remain.
Don’t think Cromwell was executed? I agree the Monarchy should never have been restored though
Bloody heck Chilcs...........The tories didn't Favour a hard Brexit...........and still don't. You need to be reminded that neither main party were in favour of leaving the EU let alone a hard Brexit. You cannot isolate the N Irish no more than you can Scotland. They were part of a democratic vote. As far as I can see the party is pretty well unified as most want a negotiated settlement.........you've got a few odd balls including Boris that are prepared for a hard Brexit.
I meant the DUP Beddy. The majority in Northern Ireland voted Remain, and yet the party representing them in the government favours a Hard Brexit.
Buying loyalty. A language a conservative understands. Bugger principles and truth.
Spot on - she paid them off, like a hooker down the docks. Utterly shameless. That`ll come back to haunt us. But I suppose, like Blair with blood on his hands from the Gulf, she`ll get away with it without being held to account.
Yep. Utter incompetence from start to finish.
Robert Catesby, come back and finish the job.
Robert Catesby, come back and finish the job.
About that little trip into history with Oliver Cromwell... Well I have uploaded the documentary to the Archive now. Been meaning to do it for months, and talking about it was as good a reason as any for finally doing it. Look what I found while doing a little preparation wander through the Net. Rather appropriate, don't you think? It was either due to the smell of political corruption or protecting the Protector from the atmosphere of London:
Anyway, nice one.
And here's The Strange Case of Oliver Cromwell's Head:
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Anyway, nice one.
And here's The Strange Case of Oliver Cromwell's Head:
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That's completely different and you know it, you don't march and parade through Catholic areas on Bonfire Night. Catholics on the mainland are not treated as second class citizens as they have been over the last century by the mainly Protestant authorities although that has changed in the last 20 years admittedly.