Brexit.

[yellowcard]

Sammy not a happy bunny

Sammy is the Irish equivalent of Boris. Neither are politicians who should be taken too seriously. The DUP have made a complete clusterfcuk of Brexit from the outset. They continue to self implode all by themselves.

[Rossfan]

So no hard border on Ireland.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43215286

Yet I remember Unionists patting each other on the back after getting a guarantee that the occupied six would be no different from Britain.

Yet they want it to be different to Scotland, Wales and Man by not having bilingual road signs etc.

[Avondhu star]

Important Brexit debate you may have missed.

https://www.bigissue.com/culture/alan-partridge-vs-malcolm-tucker-how-our-iannucci-exclusive-broke-internet/

"You want to have your cake, eat it, puke it back up, then sell it back to the cake shop at a profit and have the baker deported"

Great line!!!

Unless the Baker is one who refuses to sell to gays

[screenexile]

This is looking very much like the collapse of the Government!!

DUP are backed into a corner as they can't have NI being a de facto EU statelet but at the same time they can't withdraw their support for Theresa lest Corbyn gets in and they'll have no say whatsoever!!!

Interesting times ahead. Or else they'll use some wishy washy language like they did in December and kick the can down the road another few months!

[seafoid]

This is looking very much like the collapse of the Government!!

DUP are backed into a corner as they can't have NI being a de facto EU statelet but at the same time they can't withdraw their support for Theresa lest Corbyn gets in and they'll have no say whatsoever!!!

Interesting times ahead. Or else they'll use some wishy washy language like they did in December and kick the can down the road another few months!

if they do it in Irish none of the voters will understand and it will buy them more time.

[yellowcard]

This is looking very much like the collapse of the Government!!

DUP are backed into a corner as they can't have NI being a de facto EU statelet but at the same time they can't withdraw their support for Theresa lest Corbyn gets in and they'll have no say whatsoever!!!

Interesting times ahead. Or else they'll use some wishy washy language like they did in December and kick the can down the road another few months!

The can cannot be kicked for much longer. Brexit is happening next March, not in 5 years time. The border question must be resolved now and the British have offered no solutions simply because there are none without implementing a hard border. The DUP are now in a lose lose situation.

They can collapse the government knowing that big bad Jeremy potentially awaits and they will be outside the tent looking in, or accept the fact that there will be a special arrangement for the province. They will regret the day that they chose to campaign so heavily in favour of Brexit.

[omagh_gael]

EU pulling no punches whatsoever with their legal text. NI will be a significantly different entity to rest of the UK. DUP/Tories in all sorts of shite now.

[seafoid]

Brexit has split the UK down the middle. There is no visible way forward that can keep the tory party together. The last election was supposed to give May an unassailable majority but did the opposite.
Nobody know what the brexit wafer thin majority voted for anyway.
And the UK needs a new economic system.

[AQMP]

EU pulling no punches whatsoever with their legal text. NI will be a significantly different entity to rest of the UK. DUP/Tories in all sorts of shite now.

Wee Sammy and Sir Jeffrey will require oxygen.

[johnneycool]

EU pulling no punches whatsoever with their legal text. NI will be a significantly different entity to rest of the UK. DUP/Tories in all sorts of shite now.

Is Diane not sorting this out from the inside over in Brussels?

Mays hand has now been forced by the EU as whatever was meant to have been agreed by the Tories in Chequers last week doesn't seem to have materialised into an agreed position.

Mays fucked unless she gets into bed with the Liberal and Labour moderates to push for a Corbyn type solution and that's not going to happen.

The Tories are going to rip themselves apart over this. The DUP are inconsequential.

[yellowcard]

The DUP are now trying to disguise this deal as a bad deal economically for the north.

Whatever about being a bad deal for their own party constitutionally it is a gift of a deal for the north economically.

[seafoid]

The DUP are now trying to disguise this deal as a bad deal economically for the north.

Whatever about being a bad deal for their own party constitutionally it is a gift of a deal for the north economically.

The DUP shot their  bolt in December.

[north_antrim_hound]

The DUP are now trying to disguise this deal as a bad deal economically for the north.

Whatever about being a bad deal for their own party constitutionally it is a gift of a deal for the north economically.

The DUP shot their  bolt in December.

Is it not getting to the stage where their own electorate is copping on to them.

[Sweeper 123]

Guys i think you are all living in a bubble here - The DUP/Tories will never agree to what Barnier is saying; Leo is already talking about alternative solutions; Lets see what the next few weeks bring I believe there will be an alternate solution where the Irish govt bends over backwards -  i hope not - but you just cant negotiate with the DUP - their way or no way

[north_antrim_hound]

Guys i think you are all living in a bubble here - The DUP/Tories will never agree to what Barnier is saying; Leo is already talking about alternative solutions; Lets see what the next few weeks bring I believe there will be an alternate solution where the Irish govt bends over backwards -  i hope not - but you just cant negotiate with the DUP - their way or no way

Don't think anyone is negotiating with DUP now. Barnier has by passed them and is working with the Irish government and probably the British government behind the DUPs back. This thing is going ahead with or without them.