Current Affairs 2017 General Election

[gorgeousgeorgeEFC]

through a skillful blend of racial stereotyping and willful ignorance, the daily mail has unwittingly managed to unite everyone in the north against them!
http://www.independent.ie/irish-new...p-cartoon-sparks-outrage-online-35870783.html

The founder of the DUP, Dr Ian Paisley, once labelled Guinness "the devil's buttermilk."

Like a lot of ignorant English people, the Mail has conflated Protestant Ulster-Scots people and Irish Catholic people as if they were one and the same.

 

[Redstarrob]

It is not the money that is being used to buy the DUP votes which concerns me as such.

Unfortunately that is Pork Barrel politics and is played throughout the "free world" to keep leaders or governments in power.

It is what other sweeteners the DUP have been offered.

Particularly the toxic issue of Orange parades in Ulster.

The DUP despise the Parades Commission and unless things have changed, do not even recognise it.

If we are going to see Orange parades forced through Catholic areas then damn May for the mayhem that will ensue from that.

Where in northern ireland are orange parades trying to go through catholic areas

 

[orchard]

Times:

 

[Groucho]

 

[TheBlueGibbon]

John Crace might be out of his job as the Guardian's political satirist here.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Times:

What a powerful piece that is

Just horrific imagery. Nightmarish almost

Unbelievable

 

[orchard]

Hits home well on a few levels mate.

What a powerful piece that is

Just horrific imagery. Nightmarish almost

Unbelievable

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

 

[hullefc]

Grayling was on the BBC earlier saying that 'we will have to wait for the budget' to discuss finance//taxes/funding etc.. He must have been asleep yesterday when the DUP were given £1.5 billion that will begin to be distributed on Thursday, if the Northern Ireland assembly is up and running again. No waiting until the Autumn budget.

 

[Number_25]

If 'cards of identification' are brought in, I'll quite happily support some sort of mass-revolt.

We're an international disgrace, our government should feel ashamed.

 

[Armaghtoffee]

Where in northern ireland are orange parades trying to go through catholic areas

The main disputed areas are now Belfast and Portadown.

 

[Seanjd]

Is that a u-turn on a u-turn of a u-turn today regarding public sector pay cap? That's got to be a record. What a joke of a so called government.

 

[mmmmsnouts]

We're an international disgrace, our government should feel ashamed.

Fortunately your former colonies are lapping the field there!

 

[hullefc]

So the Tories 'needed' austerity because they wanted to tackle the debt. The imposed 1% on the public sector wage rises, cuts in benefits, an often illegal sanctioning regime against the poor - in work and out , the vulnerable, the disabled etc.. The nasty party was in full flow 'justifying' their actions so as not to leave 'our children' paying for 'government over spending and not being able to pay their way'.

Government debt increases so surely there should be more austerity, so as not to leave 'our children to pay'. But no. The Tories have found the magic money tree and decided to end 'austerity and pay freezes' in an attempt to bribe the people.

May has made so many u-turns she hasn't a clue which direction she is going in. What a mess this lot are in as they bumble along without knowing what they are doing. The country deserves better.

 

[Donald Twain]

I cant watch! This is a national embarrasment!