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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5480 on: April 15, 2021, 01:23:22 pm »
Another statement released calling for rioting, hijacking buses, destroying livelihoods and the local community peaceful protest ( :lmao :lmao :lmao ), to resume tonight at 6pm throughout the province. Just fuck off you scumbags.

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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5481 on: April 15, 2021, 06:33:41 pm »
Just drove past Hazelbank. Just a solitary police car there. No sign of shitebags
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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5482 on: April 15, 2021, 07:48:02 pm »
Just drove past Hazelbank. Just a solitary police car there. No sign of shitebags

It’s not dark enough for them to crawl from under their rocks yet?
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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5483 on: April 15, 2021, 09:59:51 pm »
They've had their little temper tantrum. Now it's down the UVF/UDA to coerce more out of the poor downtrodden scamps.

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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5484 on: April 16, 2021, 07:37:23 pm »
Protesting without protesting.


https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/farce-as-loyalist-protest-group-claims-credit-for-no-one-showing-up-to-its-protest-3203481

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Farce as loyalist protest group claims credit for no one showing up to its protest

A new loyalist group which claimed to have been behind hundreds of anti-Irish Sea border posters which appeared across Northern Ireland has admitted that not a single person showed up after it called multiple protests.

The ‘United Unionists of Ulster’ (UUU) issued a statement in February which claimed responsibility for many of the posters and claimed that some of them were being funded by businessmen whose companies were financially suffering from the new trade frontier.

In a statement on Wednesday, the group demanded the collapse of Stormont and called for protests to commence at 6pm on Thursday at seven locations – despite the period of national mourning for Prince Philip.

However, on Thursday the News Letter visited three of the locations – one of which was Stormont and another was the home of a senior Irish diplomat – and found not a single person present.

When contacted yesterday, the individual who issued the statement admitted that not a single person had protested at any of the locations. However, he claimed that there had been “a last-minute change of heart, for a number of reasons I won’t go into” and insisted that the call to protest had nonetheless “served its purpose”.

He claimed that the group had “actively encouraged” people not to protest, saying: “We obviously wanted no protests, even though we had initially said we did.”

The News Letter asked why, if the protests had genuinely been called off – rather than simply flopping because the group has no support – the group did not post a message on its Facebook page to tell people to stay away.

The man claimed that there are “ongoing issues” with the page which means they “can only share posts, not post [themselves]”. However, the page, which is followed by over 700 people, was updated as recently as Wednesday.

Pressed on why the group had called people onto the streets in the first place, the man – who would not reveal his identity – said that they were “trying to contain the violence to an absolute minimum” and “trying to show leadership”.

There is a degree of paranoia within loyalism, with several loyalists claiming that unsigned messages being circulated last week calling for protest were false.

PUP leader Billy Hutchinson has been one of several veteran loyalists to warn that responding to anonymous calls for protest means people “could be walking into a trap”.

On Wednesday he said: “I cannot remember a protest organised by loyalists that was not infiltrated. A couple of times it was infiltrated by people connected to the security services and the problem with that is that it takes it off in the wrong direction because it always ends in violence”.

When asked about the PUP leader’s comments, the man said that Mr Hutchinson was “right in his own context” but blamed media coverage of loyalism for why he will not put his name to their statements.

He admitted that to “an outsider looking in”, the situation “doesn’t make entire sense”.

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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5485 on: April 27, 2021, 04:38:22 pm »
Three quarters of DUP MLA's have signed a letter calling for a leadership contest against Arlene Foster.

News Letter says that her recent vote (actually an abstention) on the banning of gay conversion therapy was just too much for the nice DUPers to countenance.
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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5486 on: April 27, 2021, 05:55:23 pm »
Three quarters of DUP MLA's have signed a letter calling for a leadership contest against Arlene Foster.

News Letter says that her recent vote (actually an abstention) on the banning of gay conversion therapy was just too much for the nice DUPers to countenance.

It’ll be ‘protocol’ driven I’d expect, although no doubt the usual suspects will also have been influenced by that vote (which century do these folk exist in?).

Chances are some headcase will get in (Sammy Wilson et al).  While that may play to extremists within the base, it will not cut through with the wider electorate.

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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5487 on: April 27, 2021, 11:32:54 pm »
Three quarters of DUP MLA's have signed a letter calling for a leadership contest against Arlene Foster.

News Letter says that her recent vote (actually an abstention) on the banning of gay conversion therapy was just too much for the nice DUPers to countenance.

What exactly is gay conversion therapy?
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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5488 on: April 27, 2021, 11:36:15 pm »
So it'll be fun Jeffery or Sammy that wee scamp.
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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5489 on: April 27, 2021, 11:36:44 pm »
What exactly is gay conversion therapy?

Bible school fot the gays.
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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5490 on: April 28, 2021, 10:01:10 am »
Edwin Poots is one of the front runners in the race. Poots is a Young-Earth Creationist who rejects the theory of evolution. He thinks that the Earth is about 6,000 years old.

I expect he believes in Brexit, too.
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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5491 on: April 28, 2021, 10:59:57 am »
would rather have a wank wearing a barb wire glove
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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5492 on: April 28, 2021, 12:02:14 pm »
What exactly is gay conversion therapy?
Sometimes referred to as 'pray away the gay'.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/11/survivors-crusade-conversion-therapy-ban-pray-gay-away
Well, the playful "pray away the gay" actually amounts to full psychological (and possibly physical) torture, nothing less. It should be banned worldwide full stop.

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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5493 on: April 28, 2021, 04:24:44 pm »
Out of the frying pan . . .

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« Reply #5494 on: April 28, 2021, 04:37:13 pm »
Should have resigned with the RHI fiasco (robbery). Thing is, she goes, who comes in? Sammy Wilson? Fucking hell. Can now see what's to come with an even bigger c*nt in charge of those lot. They'll be advocating restrictions to be lifted sooner than what they should and it'll put us back in the shit. Watch it happen.

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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5495 on: April 28, 2021, 04:40:07 pm »
Out of the frying pan . . .


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« Reply #5496 on: April 28, 2021, 05:04:07 pm »
Sure this will have been posted before, but this is alarming:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2134162-five-things-you-need-to-know-about-dup-politicians-and-science/

They make Father Dougal look like Einstein
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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5497 on: April 28, 2021, 05:31:21 pm »
Edwin Poots is one of the front runners in the race. Poots is a Young-Earth Creationist who rejects the theory of evolution. He thinks that the Earth is about 6,000 years old.

I expect he believes in Brexit, too.
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« Reply #5498 on: April 28, 2021, 05:46:01 pm »
Poots. Ah, yes. The jug-eared c*nt that would embarrass an FA Cup. Someone who thinks flower shops and churches being open during a pandemic as priority to quality of life. Also blamed Nationalists as being the chief cause of the virus existing on the island of Ireland.

These are the people running a government.

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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5499 on: April 28, 2021, 05:57:26 pm »
Think DUP is a busted flush irrespective of leader, mainly due to cheerleading Brexit and propping up Johnson’s mob.  No doubt a nutjob incoming who will do everything he/she can to frustrate governance.  Sinn Fein will have to deal with that obviously.

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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5500 on: April 28, 2021, 11:05:31 pm »
Bible school fot the gays.

Is this real?
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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5501 on: April 28, 2021, 11:26:04 pm »
Is this real?

Yes, but worse than you'd think.
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« Reply #5502 on: April 28, 2021, 11:27:54 pm »
Edwin Poots is one of the front runners in the race. Poots is a Young-Earth Creationist who rejects the theory of evolution. He thinks that the Earth is about 6,000 years old.

I expect he believes in Brexit, too.

Oh he is a special one is Eddie. Things are going to be efry very worrying.
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« Reply #5503 on: April 28, 2021, 11:29:49 pm »
Out of the frying pan . . .

Oh Eddie makes, Carson, Craig, 1960s Ian and Sammy look like alter boys, he is the wrong step backwards to medevil times.
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« Reply #5504 on: April 28, 2021, 11:30:32 pm »
Should have resigned with the RHI fiasco (robbery). Thing is, she goes, who comes in? Sammy Wilson? Fucking hell. Can now see what's to come with an even bigger c*nt in charge of those lot. They'll be advocating restrictions to be lifted sooner than what they should and it'll put us back in the shit. Watch it happen.

Try Edmund Poots mate.
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« Reply #5505 on: April 28, 2021, 11:30:56 pm »
He's favourite  :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao

Honestly he really is.
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« Reply #5506 on: April 28, 2021, 11:33:27 pm »
Is this real?

Sadly yes. Its all very evangenical and was a therapy in the US back in the 50s/60s times. Mr Poots is US 1950s and a hardline Unionist with very very very religious beliefs. Mr. Handline conservative.
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« Reply #5507 on: April 29, 2021, 01:06:08 am »
Sadly yes. Its all very evangenical and was a therapy in the US back in the 50s/60s times. Mr Poots is US 1950s and a hardline Unionist with very very very religious beliefs. Mr. Handline conservative.
Pretty sure it’s still a thing in the US. Also fairly sure it was brought over here by the same mad yanks.

I’m convinced most dup voters don’t believe or like all this malarkey but I’m also sure most would never vote for the other wans. What I’d like to know is if there is a genuine fear of what nationalists will do to unionists if they take power? I know you will always see the headbangers on tv who think they will be wiped out or what not but I’m talking about the normal unionists or normal Protestant person who isn’t any sort of hardliner. What do they think will happen if they vote the other way?


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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5509 on: April 29, 2021, 07:47:46 am »
Edwin Poots is one of the front runners in the race. Poots is a Young-Earth Creationist who rejects the theory of evolution. He thinks that the Earth is about 6,000 years old.

I expect he believes in Brexit, too.

It baffles me that weirdos like him still get elected to public office in this day and age

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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5510 on: April 29, 2021, 08:05:47 pm »
Sadly yes. Its all very evangenical and was a therapy in the US back in the 50s/60s times. Mr Poots is US 1950s and a hardline Unionist with very very very religious beliefs. Mr. Handline conservative.

That's really quite frightening. If this is their treatment for their brethren I'd hate to learn what therapy for gay nationalists or gay people from minority communities.
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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5511 on: May 3, 2021, 08:47:21 am »
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has thrown his hat into the ring for the leadership of the DUP. Going to be the first contested run-off in their history. Typically, he's made a political statement by picking the 100th Anniversary of the founding of Northern Ireland to announce this.
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« Reply #5512 on: May 3, 2021, 06:40:32 pm »
Jeff and Eddie, should be bonkers.
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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5513 on: May 3, 2021, 09:32:53 pm »
Who is the favourite? If Donaldson loses and it goes tits up for the dup, they have a wee schism or whatever, will be funny seeing him go back to the uup
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Re: The Irish Politics Thread.
« Reply #5514 on: May 4, 2021, 06:30:03 pm »
Just seen the end of the news headlines.
What happened in the trial for the Bloody Sunday murders?
Edit just seen it wasn’t Bloody Sunday - the BBC were showing the footage whilst reporting on a different incident
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« Reply #5515 on: May 5, 2021, 06:40:17 pm »
Just seen the end of the news headlines.
What happened in the trial for the Bloody Sunday murders?
Edit just seen it wasn’t Bloody Sunday - the BBC were showing the footage whilst reporting on a different incident

statements that the soldiers made in 1972 were thrown out by the judge as not being able to be included in eveidence and the case collapsed

the soldiers were in their 70s. One had died.

Personally I would like to see a blanket pulled over all potential trials in both directions, however unsavory that is for the families on the wrong side of violence. I feel like South Africa did a similar thing with their Truth and Reconciliation commsion and just as a nation decide to move on.

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« Reply #5516 on: May 5, 2021, 06:44:01 pm »
Who is the favourite? If Donaldson loses and it goes tits up for the dup, they have a wee schism or whatever, will be funny seeing him go back to the uup

Donaldson all day long for me, he wont put himself forward without having some idea he can win it, i would prefer him to Eddie to be honest.
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« Reply #5517 on: May 5, 2021, 06:47:10 pm »
statements that the soldiers made in 1972 were thrown out by the judge as not being able to be included in eveidence and the case collapsed

the soldiers were in their 70s. One had died.

Personally I would like to see a blanket pulled over all potential trials in both directions, however unsavory that is for the families on the wrong side of violence. I feel like South Africa did a similar thing with their Truth and Reconciliation commsion and just as a nation decide to move on.

Serious pressure was put on Westminister to bin it off especially from Squaddie interest groups, the Saville report itself from the 70s was a disgrace.

Shortly before the publication of the long-awaited Saville Report, it was announced that soldiers from the Parachute Regiment would return to Helmand in Afghanistan on operations for the third time in four years in October and commanders believed that the report could cause a "morale-damaging backlash" against the British Army if the reports were not viewed in the context of the violence and chaos that engulfed Northern Ireland in 1972 and that while there should be no attempt to justify the killing of civilians by British paratroopers, senior defence officials emphasised that the events of Bloody Sunday were "a tragedy which belonged to another era" and should not reflect badly on the present day's armed forces
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« Reply #5518 on: May 6, 2021, 08:31:43 pm »
FF/FG/GP getting in the arse today over the selling off of estates to vulture funds, and rightly fucking so.
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« Reply #5519 on: May 6, 2021, 09:19:07 pm »
FF/FG/GP getting in the arse today over the selling off of estates to vulture funds, and rightly fucking so.
need to take inspiration from the french to deal with this issue and wreck the gaf.