They say that the protocol does not have cross community consent.
**Neither did brexit, nor did brexit have majority consent in NI but the DUP still supported it.**
They say the protocol is anti democratic.
**65% of elected representatives in last weeks election support the protocol.**
They point to Sinn Fein bringing down Stormont over the ash for cash scandal.
**The DUP were responsible and needed to be held accountable for that fraud, the protocol has nothing to do with Sinn Fein and was created by UKGov.**
The reality here is, that the DUP have no argument. They are once again allowing themselves to be used by Boris Johnson’s conservative party to drive a wedge issue to shore up Tory support in England and distract from an avalanche of scandal, corruption and lies.
They are allowing this to the detriment of Northern Ireland.
Mostly – they just don’t want to have to accept a Sinn Fein first minister. I suspect that even if the protocol is scrapped they wouldn’t return to power sharing and the argument then would be that there needs to be another election on some grounds or other.
They are, essentially cultural supremacists who refuse to acknowledge the voting intention of one half of the community they live in. They have never accepted that Nationalists are equal and entitled to equality, they have never moved on from the apartheid state that was there before the GFA.
These are desperately ignorant dangerous people that would rather spite nationlists and create frictions north and south than lift a finger to help unionist communities in a province that has some of the worst poverty in Europe.
Utterly shameful and pathetic.
The DUP are fucking idiots. NI got the optimal brexit of remaining in the single market for goods.
Evidenced by the massive leap in cross border trade
It seems strange to me that there’s no mechanism to remove them and replace them with the next preferred candidates.
I mean, if I got a new job and refused to show up or do the work on day one, they’d just sack me and give the job to someone else.
It is remarkable that today the sectarian unionist core that used to rule by an artificial discriminatory majority after partition, continues to fully dictate how the North is run even as a minority party.
* A majority of people in Northern Ireland support the Good Friday Agreement, the DUP still refuse to sign onto it.
* A majority of people in Northern Ireland vote against Brexit, yet the DUP support it and as potential king makers, betray Theresa May losing the best deal for Northern Ireland.
* A majority of people in Northern Ireland want marriage equality and abortion rights, however the DUP (littered with evangelical young-earth creationists) refuse to allow this. These rights would only be instated after the DUP collapsed Stormont and the Tories betrayed them in a unique act of common sense.
* A majority of people in Northern Ireland support the protocol arrangement, evidenced in the recent elections, and the DUP have run to Westminster screaming there’s no “cross-community support”.
Stormont as much of a shambles as it has been, was only tolerable to the DUP when they could get the title of First Minister to remind everyone of their primacy. With Sinn Fein being granted the pole position for the office the DUP now refuse to re-enter government until Westminster dismantles the popular protocol with all the fun consequences of an EU trade war, US political intervention, a hard border across the island and a potential return of violence.
They sicken me honestly. Its a disgrace that they are doing this. Spouting their usual rubbish about “the union being broken up”, how about you start looking after the people in your own country who can barely afford to put food on the table instead of banging on about the union and the damn protocol. The people of Northern ireland deserve better, it is outrageous. Using the protocol as an excuse when in reality I suspect that even IF it gets sorted they will still refuse to form a government and make up some other pathetic excuse. They can’t stand the idea of a Sinn fein first minister.
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But the elected DUP will keep drawing their pay.
They say that the protocol does not have cross community consent.
**Neither did brexit, nor did brexit have majority consent in NI but the DUP still supported it.**
They say the protocol is anti democratic.
**65% of elected representatives in last weeks election support the protocol.**
They point to Sinn Fein bringing down Stormont over the ash for cash scandal.
**The DUP were responsible and needed to be held accountable for that fraud, the protocol has nothing to do with Sinn Fein and was created by UKGov.**
The reality here is, that the DUP have no argument. They are once again allowing themselves to be used by Boris Johnson’s conservative party to drive a wedge issue to shore up Tory support in England and distract from an avalanche of scandal, corruption and lies.
They are allowing this to the detriment of Northern Ireland.
Mostly – they just don’t want to have to accept a Sinn Fein first minister. I suspect that even if the protocol is scrapped they wouldn’t return to power sharing and the argument then would be that there needs to be another election on some grounds or other.
They are, essentially cultural supremacists who refuse to acknowledge the voting intention of one half of the community they live in. They have never accepted that Nationalists are equal and entitled to equality, they have never moved on from the apartheid state that was there before the GFA.
These are desperately ignorant dangerous people that would rather spite nationlists and create frictions north and south than lift a finger to help unionist communities in a province that has some of the worst poverty in Europe.
Utterly shameful and pathetic.
The DUP are fucking idiots. NI got the optimal brexit of remaining in the single market for goods.
Evidenced by the massive leap in cross border trade
https://www.politico.eu/article/experts-brexit-protocol-is-boosting-northern-ireland-economy/
It seems strange to me that there’s no mechanism to remove them and replace them with the next preferred candidates.
I mean, if I got a new job and refused to show up or do the work on day one, they’d just sack me and give the job to someone else.
It is remarkable that today the sectarian unionist core that used to rule by an artificial discriminatory majority after partition, continues to fully dictate how the North is run even as a minority party.
* A majority of people in Northern Ireland support the Good Friday Agreement, the DUP still refuse to sign onto it.
* A majority of people in Northern Ireland vote against Brexit, yet the DUP support it and as potential king makers, betray Theresa May losing the best deal for Northern Ireland.
* A majority of people in Northern Ireland want marriage equality and abortion rights, however the DUP (littered with evangelical young-earth creationists) refuse to allow this. These rights would only be instated after the DUP collapsed Stormont and the Tories betrayed them in a unique act of common sense.
* A majority of people in Northern Ireland support the protocol arrangement, evidenced in the recent elections, and the DUP have run to Westminster screaming there’s no “cross-community support”.
Stormont as much of a shambles as it has been, was only tolerable to the DUP when they could get the title of First Minister to remind everyone of their primacy. With Sinn Fein being granted the pole position for the office the DUP now refuse to re-enter government until Westminster dismantles the popular protocol with all the fun consequences of an EU trade war, US political intervention, a hard border across the island and a potential return of violence.
They sicken me honestly. Its a disgrace that they are doing this. Spouting their usual rubbish about “the union being broken up”, how about you start looking after the people in your own country who can barely afford to put food on the table instead of banging on about the union and the damn protocol. The people of Northern ireland deserve better, it is outrageous. Using the protocol as an excuse when in reality I suspect that even IF it gets sorted they will still refuse to form a government and make up some other pathetic excuse. They can’t stand the idea of a Sinn fein first minister.