DUP blames winter fuel payment cuts on Sinn Fein abstentionism



by BelfastTelegraph

24 comments
  1. Never holding their hands up and admitting their useless.

  2. Yeah those 7 votes would have meant the motion passing with a majority of only 113, instead of 120.

  3. They’ve just admitted that SF are more capable politicians than them when it comes to negotiating in Westminster.

    Fucking idiots.

    Eta: if they didn’t have to pledge allegiance to king and britain, they’d be there.

  4. Some serious fucking mental gymnastics going on right now

  5. The best these cunts have to offer is themmuns!

    I really wish the good unionist people would stop voting for these fuckers as they only have their own interests at heart.

  6. Sounds like our resident bigot, “republicans” responsible for all the world’s ills

  7. Would have been good for SF to have voted against it, then DUP would have voted for it and asked the speaker if SF were happy to bankrupt the country

  8. Sure blame the state of the NHS on them too. Anything else? The big invisible wall in the sea maybe?

  9. This is why abstentionism is fundamentally the right idea. We have no say, we will always be out voted.  

    Labour have a majority of 172, they will do what they want. 

    The DUP meanwhile are all too happy to swan off to another island for soundbites.

  10. Good ol DUP beating dead horses and screaming into the ether. Fuck off you bunch of bigots.

  11. Fleggory is literally special needs. His DUP supported the worst of the Tory cuts and mis governance over the last 14 years.

  12. no more billion pound bribes about dupers?

    ah shame

  13. You know when you are winding someone up and they are just taking it and getting so mad and you are just sitting back and laughing your ass off at them. Thats what I imagine SF are doing every time the DUP’ers start having a wee rant and whinge like this.

  14. The musical chairs both parties have played re abstentionism have incrementally and cumulatively wrought a collective toll that has crystallized into current difficulties.

    It’s cavalier and terrible but these are the parties the electorate appoint. What more can be said.

  15. The Shinners! I knew it was them. Even when it was the Brits, I knew it was them

  16. That the same DUP that couldn’t even bother to take seats in Strormont for 2 years?

  17. Haven’t Sinn Fein had a policy of abstentionism since… forever?

    Moron.

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