Who would have thought - Ian Paisley - Sri Lanka & The Maldives

[north_antrim_hound]

What is needed is a sort of Lady Hermon type candidate. Sadly, they are not likely to find one.

I'm not sure.  North Antrim is a very different place to North Down.  I don't think Lady Hermon would cut much ice with your average Dervock knuckle dragger.

LOL Patrice Hardy might look the part but she wouldn't come out on top in a sumo wrestling match

[playwiththewind1st]

Not sure this is the best place for this, but anyway...

Emma Pengelly has written to people in East Belfast looking for support in signing a petition to complain about the naming of a bus stop on the Albertbridge Road "Short Strand".

The stop is literally in the Short Strand. She's not the MP for the area. Other than hating taigs, what other possible explanation can there be for such nonsense?!

She is one bitter bitch. She's the so-called MP for South Belfast, not East Belfast, so it is none of her business. What does she want to call it? "My good friend Ian Paisley Jr halt" or "my daddy was charged with loyalist gun running halt"??

[imtommygunn]

As someone pointed out though it may be nothing... Interesting she didn't have dup on her letter.

It is probably a diversion tactic anyway.

[playwiththewind1st]

As someone pointed out though it may be nothing... Interesting she didn't have dup on her letter.

It is probably a diversion tactic anyway.

Aye...divert the Glider up through Short Strand & watch huns shitting themselves lol.

[under the bar]

Not sure this is the best place for this, but anyway...

Emma Pengelly has written to people in East Belfast looking for support in signing a petition to complain about the naming of a bus stop on the Albertbridge Road "Short Strand".

The stop is literally in the Short Strand. She's not the MP for the area. Other than hating taigs, what other possible explanation can there be for such nonsense?!

An utterly contemptuous attack on the Short Strand community in attempting to whitewash it's name from the transport map.  It's not even in her constituency.  Apparently she's also  set up meetings with Translink to try and bully the issue through yet illegal loyalist flags outside Catholic homes in a mixed housing development in her own constituency are "no big fuss".   Another DUP utter disgrace of a politician.

[imtommygunn]

She is one of their worst and that is saying something. I think she is relatively young so years of this sort of crap to listen to from her too.

[playwiththewind1st]

Unfortunately, she's my MP. Nationalist politicians really need to agree a unity candidate at the next election, to unseat scum like her & teach her a lesson.

[Last Man]

And unfortunately the duper's are becoming all too adept at burying column inches with  bull shit stories  to hide the real events of the day. Doesn't take long for us clowns  to look the other way.

[playwiththewind1st]

The whiff of corruption about the DUP is pretty bad, but it doesn't  seem to matter a shit in this neck of the woods. In addition, the Tories deal with them, to prop themselves up, when they must know what a shower they are. Why people  even bother to vote is a mystery.

[imtommygunn]

Unfortunately, she's my MP. Nationalist politicians really need to agree a unity candidate at the next election, to unseat scum like her & teach her a lesson.

Mine too. She should not be getting in in south belfast.

Lastman it is pretty obvious what they are doing but they will do what they like no matter what we say.

[give her dixie]

Electoral Commission probes DUP Israel visit costs

Four DUP politicians failed to make complete donation reports about a trip to Israel, BBC News NI has learned.

Six DUP MPs reported receiving donations of £2,700 from NI Friends of Israel to pay for the four-day visit in May, the electoral watchdog confirmed.

But while four DUP MLAs reported donations to the Assembly, they did not report them to the Electoral Commission within the required 30 days.

The DUP said steps had been taken to rectify an "administrative oversight".

"The trip was declared on the Assembly register of interests," said a spokesman.

The visit - which cost £2,700 per delegate - was funded by the lobbying group Northern Ireland Friends of Israel, with extra costs being met by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The DUP said the visit was "aimed at developing economic links in such sectors as cyber security, with Israeli and Northern Ireland companies at the cutting edge of new technology in this specialist field".

The four Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) on the trip were:

Gary Middleton - Foyle
William Humphrey - North Belfast
Michelle McIlveen - Strangford
Jonathan Buckley - Upper Bann
The latest developments come after it emerged that DUP MP Ian Paisley failed to declare two family holidays paid for by the Sri Lankan government.

MPs voted last week to suspend Mr Paisley from the House of Commons for 30 working days and he was suspended by the DUP "pending further investigation into his conduct".

Mr Paisley was one of six MPs who travelled to Israel with the MLAs for the trip.

The other MPs were DUP Deputy leader Nigel Dodds, Jeffrey Donaldson, Emma Little Pengelly, Gregory Campbell and Paul Girvan, all of whose donations were recorded properly.

Donations from NI Friends of Israel worth £2,700 to each of the six MPs were published on the commission's website.

Different rules for reporting donations

Legislation was passed at Westminster in March requiring donations to parties and politicians from Northern Ireland to be published.

MPs must report any donations they receive to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards
This information is passed to the Electoral Commission which publishes the details on its website

The rules are different for MLAs, who must report any donations to both the Register of Members' Interests at the NI Assembly and the Electoral Commission

Electoral Commission rules state MLAs must report all donations of more than £1,500 to the commission within 30 days.

"We have already written to these MLAs to clarify why no return has been made," said an Electoral Commission spokesman.


E Little-Pengelly MP
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@little_pengelly
I've spent the last few days & Bank Holiday seeing a very different border. Heard from different perspectives & fascinating visit to the West Bank & Jersualem. At a time of key decisions on big global issues, this has been an invaluable experience

9:41 PM - May 29, 2018 · Israel

The DUP said it was in the process of rectifying the situation, and suggested the reporting procedures should be reviewed.

"Thought should be given to updating the Assembly procedures so they are aligned with the processes in Westminster," said a spokesman.

During the visit the DUP politicians met Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog, as well as former Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Dr Nabil Shaath.

They also visited the grave of Chaim Herzog, the former Israeli president who was born in Belfast 100 years ago.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-44969471?SThisFB

[playwiththewind1st]

DUP & the Israelis - totally made for each other. It's a pity the Free Ps & other bible thumping fundamentalists wouldn't piss off to the promised land, en masse. Am sure the drunk driving Councillors, the fornicators & the downright corrupt would find a new home there.

[weareros]

They also visited the grave of Chaim Herzog, the former Israeli president who was born in Belfast 100 years ago.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-44969471?SThisFB

Wonder if anyone told them his father was known as The Sinn Fein Rabbi.

[playwiththewind1st]

Not a term you would hear mentioned every day!

[Dire Ear]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/northern_ireland
Can someone explain this please?  Refusing to allow a wake