The DUP thread

[HiMucker]

If the PSNI had interrupted a memorial to the Shankill bomb would the DUP have waited until now to call for the Chief Constable's head?

Can a new Chief Constable be appointed while the DUP have closed Stormont?

At the minute no, needs stormont to rubber stamp a new CC

Could this be a plan by the DUP to engineer a reason for them to get stormont up and running again? Ie whip up a frenzy "ah sure we had to get back at it in order to get rid of the IRA supporting cheif constable"?

[NAG1]

If the PSNI had interrupted a memorial to the Shankill bomb would the DUP have waited until now to call for the Chief Constable's head?

Can a new Chief Constable be appointed while the DUP have closed Stormont?

At the minute no, needs stormont to rubber stamp a new CC

Could this be a plan by the DUP to engineer a reason for them to get stormont up and running again? Ie whip up a frenzy "ah sure we had to get back at it in order to get rid of the IRA supporting cheif constable"?

Either way it is a dead cat because the narrative is shifted away from the DUP and their boycott of Stormont and the knock-on effects with the local services and the economy.

Gets them off the hook for a bit any way.

[Eire90]

A shadowy vigilante group has declared war on Ulster's drug dealers.
The Sunday World can reveal that a group of ex-loyalist paramilitaries have set up an organisation with the sole aim of targeting drug peddlers.

Dealers from the bottom of the food chain to the top are in the sights of the group members who say they will strike without warning and claim they are prepared to take lives.

It is understood the group has been holding meetings over a long period of time and has been building an 'intelligence file' on the country's major and minor dealers – no one is exempt.

The group is made up of veteran loyalist paramilitaries, mostly from the UVF and the dormant Ulster Resistance.

The anti-drug purge is the brainchild of a farmer/landowner from mid Ulster, and the organisation has bypassed the current paramilitary leadership. UVF Chief of Staff John Bunter Graham and UDA godfather Jackie McDonald have been vocal in their opposition to the drugs trade but have failed to curb the spread of drug abuse and have turned a blind eye as paramilitaries make money from the illicit trade.

[Eire90]

Our source said low-level dealers will be kneecapped but their main focus is on suppliers who they say will be shot dead.

"Their main intention is the protection of loyalist communities – they will target anyone whether they are dissidents or foreign gangs. If they're dealing in loyalist communities they are fair game."

The source said they had access to a significant cache of weaponry.

It is known the secretive Ulster Resistance retains an arsenal of weapons hidden in arms dumps across Northern Ireland

[Nanderson]

A shadowy vigilante group has declared war on Ulster's drug dealers.
The Sunday World can reveal that a group of ex-loyalist paramilitaries have set up an organisation with the sole aim of targeting drug peddlers.

Dealers from the bottom of the food chain to the top are in the sights of the group members who say they will strike without warning and claim they are prepared to take lives.

It is understood the group has been holding meetings over a long period of time and has been building an 'intelligence file' on the country's major and minor dealers – no one is exempt.

The group is made up of veteran loyalist paramilitaries, mostly from the UVF and the dormant Ulster Resistance.

The anti-drug purge is the brainchild of a farmer/landowner from mid Ulster, and the organisation has bypassed the current paramilitary leadership. UVF Chief of Staff John Bunter Graham and UDA godfather Jackie McDonald have been vocal in their opposition to the drugs trade but have failed to curb the spread of drug abuse and have turned a blind eye as paramilitaries make money from the illicit trade.

They don't want to stop drugs that's the problem. They just want to limit all the supply of it so that only the paramilitaries can make money from it

[tonto1888]

Bin Lowry in tears on Nolan this morning.

What was his problem today?

PSNIRA

Is there anyone that isnt in the RA at this stage?

Gerry Adams

brilliant

[seafoid]

NI budget clusterfuck

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/09/03/london-will-not-throw-money-at-northern-ireland-chris-heaton-harris/

In a speech at the British Irish Association's annual conference in Oxford at the weekend, Chris Heaton-Harris said that in the past the "so-called solution" to a Northern Ireland problem had been to "throw money at it and hope it will go away" and this pattern could not be repeated.

"The problems facing Northern Ireland cannot be fixed with a sticking-plaster funding settlement, which would not do anything to address the structural problems that have been building for years," he said

[Orior]

Another day, another Lundy outed. This time, one of the founders of the DUP...

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/new-ireland-is-now-inevitable-says-dup-founding-member/a1243025765.html

[north_antrim_hound]

Another day, another Lundy outed. This time, one of the founders of the DUP...

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/new-ireland-is-now-inevitable-says-dup-founding-member/a1243025765.html

I think that reality has been obvious now for years, it's the persistent policy of trying to wreck the place before they lose their grip is a reflection of the vindictiveness and bile. But their electorate seems happy with the chaos.

[johnnycool]

Good living for a living;

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/agri/farmer-who-criticised-police-for-not-catching-those-behind-huge-cannabis-factory-is-charged-himself/a760397715.html

[seafoid]

If the PSNI had interrupted a memorial to the Shankill bomb would the DUP have waited until now to call for the Chief Constable's head?

Can a new Chief Constable be appointed while the DUP have closed Stormont?

At the minute no, needs stormont to rubber stamp a new CC

Could this be a plan by the DUP to engineer a reason for them to get stormont up and running again? Ie whip up a frenzy "ah sure we had to get back at it in order to get rid of the IRA supporting cheif constable"?

Either way it is a dead cat because the narrative is shifted away from the DUP and their boycott of Stormont and the knock-on effects with the local services and the economy.

Gets them off the hook for a bit any way.

They are holding the North back. Even the Tories say there is no justification for the boycott. It's so depressing.

[Rossfan]

Fingers in ears, eyes closed, head buried under sand....

https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/i-didnt-want-to-see-that-front-page-in-tesco-jim-wells-says-wallace-thompson-shouldve-kept-new-ireland-views-to-himself/a1289071126.html

[Wildweasel74]

Wasn't much need for Sinn Fein boycott, got them nothing, so their position in trying get DUP bck starting from a bad base, as their boycott, the stick used to beat them.

[NAG1]

Wasn't much need for Sinn Fein boycott, got them nothing, so their position in trying get DUP bck starting from a bad base, as their boycott, the stick used to beat them.

Rights or wrongs behind SF pulling out at that time was at least a principled one regarding RHI.

DUP boycott is completely sectarian, they can gurn about the WF or Protocol all they want (they aren't stupid enough at this point to think they can actually change it) but at the end of the day, they simply cannot countenance going in to Stormont under a SF FM and a woman at that. All the rest is them dancing on the head of a pin because they know they have been sold out and know they have no where to turn.

The longer they stay away the more influence Dublin can assert and we have already seen this with some low key joint investment projects.

[imtommygunn]

I am not a SF supporter but it had reached the point where it was completely taking the piss and something needed done.. Any DUP MLA, or DUP member it would seem, could do whatever they wanted and they could get away with it. They were taking the piss out of everyone - they were pretty much doing what Johnson did before he did it. Do whatever you want with zero accountability. (I am not sure it is much different now mind you).

I still don't believe that the DUP informed their voters etc they were bailing out of this. There has to come a point where this has to stop. You would think it's long past mind you.

They think they hold the key to everything and everything revolves round them. Get Dublin involved and then see what they do then.