Brexit.

[Armagh18]

Coveney has says things have changed a bit. I still wouldn't trust these pricks so I'm sure there is some ulterior motive.

I do think the DUP are going to get shafted on the protocol though. It's inevitable I would think. Again.

Saying as the DUP and certainly 99.9% of their supporters have no idea of what the protocol actually is except they see it as something Nationalists support which means they have to oppose it, the Tories could work out something that the DUP'ers could paint as a win. But they will never, ever go in to Stormont playing second fiddle.

[seafoid]

Jeff Donaldson "will take seat"

https://mobile.twitter.com/east_24/status/1524987689132605440

Donaldson refuses. Unbelievable,  Jeff

[imtommygunn]

Coveney has says things have changed a bit. I still wouldn't trust these pricks so I'm sure there is some ulterior motive.

I do think the DUP are going to get shafted on the protocol though. It's inevitable I would think. Again.

Saying as the DUP and certainly 99.9% of their supporters have no idea of what the protocol actually is except they see it as something Nationalists support which means they have to oppose it, the Tories could work out something that the DUP'ers could paint as a win. But they will never, ever go in to Stormont playing second fiddle.

it is blatantly about that.

Now people are saying that voters chose for them not to go in. They didn't say they wouldn't go in before the election only afterwards. Cowboys ted.

[seafoid]

Labour are 20 ahead in the polls. should they win the next election

They will review the Border Poll
They won't consort with the DUP

[yellowcard]

Coveney has says things have changed a bit. I still wouldn't trust these pricks so I'm sure there is some ulterior motive.

I do think the DUP are going to get shafted on the protocol though. It's inevitable I would think. Again.

Saying as the DUP and certainly 99.9% of their supporters have no idea of what the protocol actually is except they see it as something Nationalists support which means they have to oppose it, the Tories could work out something that the DUP'ers could paint as a win. But they will never, ever go in to Stormont playing second fiddle.

it is blatantly about that.

Now people are saying that voters chose for them not to go in. They didn't say they wouldn't go in before the election only afterwards. Cowboys ted.

It's a disgrace that MLA's are still on full pay and the media really should be making much more out of this given the cost of living crisis. If a politician came to the door it is the first thing that would be asked of them to do their job, yet media barely raise the subject. 

[Rossfan]

https://www.rte.ie/news/brexit/2022/1003/1326792-northern-ireland-protocol/

[Eire90]

Another ghost election with the same results i bet they will moan if their is a lower turn out.

[balladmaker]

The protocol is being used as an excuse not to go into an executive with a Catholic / Nationalist / Republican First Minister.  There is nothing more to it than that at this stage.  The DUP are in a corner and an election is their likely preferred way out.  Should they come out as top dog, they'll happily waltz back into Stormont, if the result is the same as the last time with Sinn Fein the largest party, then Stormont is dead.  Either way, the DUP are screwed .. should they win an election, it will be a facile victory in the overall picture and will further hasten the demise of unionism with the middle ground swaying closer to a new Ireland approach.

[mouview]

Wee Conor being a naughty boy? No loss to another Boris/ Brexit cheerleader.

https://www.rte.ie/news/uk/2022/1007/1327840-burns-mp/

[seafoid]

https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/house-of-lords-attempting-to-delay-northern-ireland-protocol-bill-as-peers-seek-to-allow-time-for-negotiation-with-brussels-42058181.html

[mouview]

Suella opens her considerable mouth to insert her foot;

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/indian-trade-deal-in-peril-after-suella-braverman-migrant-comments-bpgkw6prr

[johnnycool]

Suella opens her considerable mouth to insert her foot;

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/indian-trade-deal-in-peril-after-suella-braverman-migrant-comments-bpgkw6prr

Just when you thought the Torys couldn't get anyone worse as Priti Patel as Home Secretary, they pull Braverman out of the bag...

[imtommygunn]

Pratel is vile. There's something seriously wrong with braver man. Significantly lacking in any kind of empathy.

The reckoning is it's no coincidence this role is not filled by white people - then the racism card can't be played or played as easily.

[seafoid]

Brexit has reduced UK GDP by 4% and reduces UK growth by limiting access to the EU. The UK has reached some kind of debt limit.
Markets don't agree with the Government. Mortage rates are up to 6%. Tory voters don't like this. Pensions are a systemic risk. It's all going arseways.

[Rossfan]

That's what usually happens when a Country is taken over and run by extremist idealogues.