The DUP thread

[Eire90]

Dup and sinn fein do not care about the severe mental health epidemic in northern ireland as long as they got there champagne and steak 

[seafoid]

The problem with the DUP is that it hasn't been operating on the reality spectrum for a number of years.
It is still very vulnerable to the TUV awhile Protestant voters are crying out for leadership. There is no Conor Glass type figure to read the political game,  take a grip on the party and drive it on .

[trailer]

So Jeffrey was  threatened , by  an unnamed person(s).  Very convenient 

So now he's  reduced the heat on himself and Colm  Eastwood even coming  out in support of him.

He should have  turned on the tears as well. That   would have  put the tin hat on it

Threatened by an unknown person who, when he checked hadn't voted!
How can he check if someone voted? I thought that was anonymous?
Can't be an unknown person if he knows them!

Whole thing is a deflection....ironic give  he said he wouldn't be deflected.

No sympathy for him, I don't condone threats, I mean the situation he and the dup are in. Its self made and we are all suffering for their party politics.

Jeff did not say they were unknown people, it's possible he could have checked earlier online comments made. Wasn't it Donaldson who threatened Trimble back in the day?
I see he was spoofing about all the alterations to the protocol that he alone was able to negotiate.

My bad, I misread unnamed as unknown.
I still don't understand how he can check if someone voted.

He's full of it. Don't believe a word he says to be honest and I'm surprised so many have been taken in by the performance.
I was never a huge fan of SDLPs Eastwood, but he seriously went down in my estimations yesterday with how he responded. He's right to condemn threats of course, but good god.

You get checked off if you vote. Register can be viewed, just not who you voted for.

Never new it!
Can anyone see it?

YES!

[93-DY-SAM]

https://www.eoni.org.uk/Register-To-Vote/Inspecting-the-Electoral-Register

[north_antrim_hound]

I tried to listened to this, when he said he put on the uniform of the UDR to protect the whole community I switched straight off.

[Denn Forever]

I tried to listened to this, when he said he put on the uniform of the UDR to protect the whole community I switched straight off.

So that is what he meant.

[Mario]

I tried to listened to this, when he said he put on the uniform of the UDR to protect the whole community I switched straight off.

Same and then he said he was working night and day

[thebigfella]

So Jeffrey was  threatened , by  an unnamed person(s).  Very convenient 

So now he's  reduced the heat on himself and Colm  Eastwood even coming  out in support of him.

He should have  turned on the tears as well. That  would have  put the tin hat on it

Threatened by an unknown person who, when he checked hadn't voted!
How can he check if someone voted? I thought that was anonymous?
Can't be an unknown person if he knows them!

Whole thing is a deflection....ironic give  he said he wouldn't be deflected.

No sympathy for him, I don't condone threats, I mean the situation he and the dup are in. Its self made and we are all suffering for their party politics.

The person who didn't vote is wee Seamie I suspect. On the day of the election is was gurning as there was a Rangers game on that day and he was not able to vote,  according to him,  as he was away at the game. The references by wee Jeff and CCH to people on twitter is a clear shot at Bryson.

While I have little sympathy for Donaldson maybe he has grown a pair and publicly now has stood up to the back room bullies. Very pointed sitting in the HoC with all the DUP members in a row expect Junior sitting directly behind wee Jeff in the eye of the camera.

That's it. He's saying the exact thing we've all been saying, Bryson (and the rest) doesn't have a mandate so why are people giving any sort of credence to his incitement. Something he should have called out long ago and called the media out on over the disproportionate amount of coverage afforded to him.

No sympathy, and I suspect whatever happens it's the end of the DUP or any unionist party ever being the biggest party in the North as this will split the unionist/loyalist voting. Cue Stormont up and down while they come to terms with this.

[NAG1]

Really doesn't matter how this plays out in terms of the Nationalist population politically.

Worst case scenario they all rally around the DUP and he gains voters - unlikely and doesn't really matter in terms of the demographics just delays things.

Best case scenario completely splinters the loyalist/ unionist vote even further and they are weakened even more.

The real danger is that when loyalists are feeling threatened or are angry with whatever, who do they target and our history shows us that it is usually innocent Catholics.

[93-DY-SAM]

Really doesn't matter how this plays out in terms of the Nationalist population politically.

Worst case scenario they all rally around the DUP and he gains voters - unlikely and doesn't really matter in terms of the demographics just delays things.

Best case scenario completely splinters the loyalist/ unionist vote even further and they are weakened even more.

The real danger is that when loyalists are feeling threatened or are angry with whatever, who do they target and our history shows us that it is usually innocent Catholics.

That's the danger here. All while wee Jeff, Allister et al wash their hands off it saying it had nothing to do with us.

[imtommygunn]

It's a fractured party. What really is keeping it together? Is it a gravy train they're on they don't want off or is it just they'll do anything to not have SF the largest party? (Yes they are that anyway but by a landslide I mean)

[marty34]

He does the bidding for the OO and UDA/UVF.

That's the reality.

I couldn't care less for him. They'll never change. There's no De Clerk or their supporters won't allow a De Clerk.

[SaffronSports]

So Jeffrey was  threatened , by  an unnamed person(s).  Very convenient 

So now he's  reduced the heat on himself and Colm  Eastwood even coming  out in support of him.

He should have  turned on the tears as well. That  would have  put the tin hat on it

Threatened by an unknown person who, when he checked hadn't voted!
How can he check if someone voted? I thought that was anonymous?
Can't be an unknown person if he knows them!

Whole thing is a deflection....ironic give  he said he wouldn't be deflected.

No sympathy for him, I don't condone threats, I mean the situation he and the dup are in. Its self made and we are all suffering for their party politics.

Jeff did not say they were unknown people, it's possible he could have checked earlier online comments made. Wasn't it Donaldson who threatened Trimble back in the day?
I see he was spoofing about all the alterations to the protocol that he alone was able to negotiate.

My bad, I misread unnamed as unknown.
I still don't understand how he can check if someone voted.

He's full of it. Don't believe a word he says to be honest and I'm surprised so many have been taken in by the performance.
I was never a huge fan of SDLPs Eastwood, but he seriously went down in my estimations yesterday with how he responded. He's right to condemn threats of course, but good god.

You get checked off if you vote. Register can be viewed, just not who you voted for.

Never new it!
Can anyone see it?

They probably don't even need to do that. In your polling station there's a table set up for Polling Agents and they have a blank copy of the register. When a voter comes in they'll come to the voting desk and give ID etc, the staff then have to shout out that person's number so the polling agent can then mark them as voted on their own register.

I've worked half a dozen elections in the Glens of Antrim so only ever seen Sinn Fein polling agents but I'm sure in DUP strongholds they'll have them working. If there's people who haven't voted they'll contact them and offer them lifts to the polling station etc.

[Eire90]

is having lists of who has and who has not voted a very dangerous thing


what happens if it comes to a united ireland vote and someone does not vote could sinn fein order masked men to beat them up. or the dup order loyalists to beast someone up whos not voted in the shankill

[Armagh18]

is having lists of who has and who has not voted a very dangerous thing


what happens if it comes to a united ireland vote and someone does not vote could sinn fein order masked men to beat them up. or the dup order loyalists to beast someone up whos not voted in the shankill

Yeah that'll happen.