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Although this is more about the DUP than the Tories, it seems to sit quite nicely in here:
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Politics is still massively tribal over there. I will never forget their election seasons. Theyâre wild.
I stayed in a big,detached three story manse in Kilkeel. Huge place; my landlady built it on her fatherâs land and unmarried, liked to have lodgers to keep her company. She was also a school teacher and SDLP councillor of some repute. She has an MBE.
Anyways, her house had a big telephone pole at the front, so day one, the local SDLP mob would descend on the house and stick a prominent SDLP advert on the telephone pole. Day two, a van pulls up, someone gets out and shimmies up the pole, replacing it with a DUP poster. Day three, a pickup turned up, someone else shimmied up the pole and replaced that with a TUV (the party that thinks the DUP is too meek these days) poster.
My mate Ry grew up in Lisburn along one of the dividing lines. Regarding flags, he said âwhatever theyâd put up, weâd put the opposite up. If they put up an Istael flag, weâd put up a Palestinian oneâ.
Peaceful unification is as likely as us ground sharing with Skatesmouth
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Thatâs the thing. It really isnât, and Iâd argue that most of the groundwork for that to happen is in place. Weâve had over 20 years of relative peace in the region, and that is not by accident. A lot of time and money has gone into making some kind of transition top to bottom.
My major place of work over there was mixed in terms of the employment makeup. Theyâd do some clumsily handled things, such as diversity training (which so Iâm told, was basically about why itâs not alright to call someone a Fenian bastard) to much cannier little touches, such as banning football shirts at company get togethers.
People like prosperity and they like stability. Northern Ireland largely has had both for over twenty years after having neither for the preceding forty. As long as they all keep that, itâs only the hardliners that will give much of a shit about who rules them.
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âŠand loses it?
Possibly. Was a big hoo ha in the press about Labour falling behind in the polls a week ago. No doubt this bounce back will be given equal coverage.
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Ex welsh nationalist complaining about English nationalists
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Iâd say that majority is over-stated, numerically accurate as it may be. I wonder if Boris would survive a no-confidence vote. If just two of his MPs are bruised enough to go against him, government over.
Hard to draw much from this one
Libs held the seat before, the Greens and PC stood aside and the Tory MP was on the fiddle
Labour were lucky to keep their deposit
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Never has an MP been so inappropriately named.
https://twitter.com/peterconlan2/status/1157285289825579008?s=20
The Zionist agent now in government shows the mindset of these freaks.
âI want [criminals] to literally feel terror at the thought of committing offencesâ â Home Secretary Priti Patel.
Does that include you and your pay masters Priti(ugly)?
Maybe a death penalty, but youâve already been shown up for what you are on that subject.
People agree and vote for these scum. Why?
Taking back control innit.We can make our own laws after Halloween, no more of those lily - livered Europeans telling us what to do, making us abide by silly laws which outlaw capital punishment, give employment rights to workers and all the rest of the loony left nonsense. We can now make our own laws, bring us in line with our new masters, the US of A. It will be worth it, that nice stable Mr Trump will make sure we have a good trade deal, just as long as we toe the line and stand shoulder to shoulder. What could possibly go wrong?
Yeah, weâve got a wonderful future ahead and for those that havenât felt the murderous hand of cancer, fear not, everyone will get their share soon enough.