Edwin Poots the Brian Clough of NI politics

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  1. Dav

    DavidCurriesMullet Well-Known Member

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    Resigned after 21 days.

    "Right you lot you can stick your science, Celtic language, women's rights and ethics in the bin"
    " The world was created 6000 years ago, and in that time all folk have gone on about is the big bang and building a forward thinking progressive society, time to go back to the scriptures and holding more marches"
     
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    Big Val 5/4 with Odds Checker
     
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    They managed to appoint someone more extreme than Arlene and he still wasn't extreme enough for them! Mad fekkers!:D
     
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    That is ace!!! Can't remember seeing that one.
     
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    Isn't Arlene Foster considered to be pretty moderate?!
     
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    No. Just more moderate than others. But there's no way anyone can honestly Arlene Foster is in any way 'moderate'.
     
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    Well, Poots is gone, so lets see the next nutter the DUP put forward :)
     
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    Failed the
    Failed the bigotry test - too tolerant for the grass root DUP no surrender nutters
     
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    You have to feel for them.
    They are all pro UK and back the Tories.
    But the Tories fked them over by leaving the EU and putting a border down the Irish Sea after they said there would be no border.
    It’s a land of confusion.
    A powder keg just waiting to explode.
     
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    Very much hoping its not going to explode. Its taken us so long to get here. So many peoples lives ruined in the process. We cant go backwards, it makes no sense for Britain, Ireland or N.I.
     
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    We all hope that it won’t explode but we are talking of a system of intolerance in N Ireland.
    Totally different from what any of us are accustomed to.
     
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    Sadly, sense isn't always at the fore in such things that run so deep.
     
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    To be fair, I really believe that most people up north just want to get on with life now. Doesnt matter which side they're on, they see the benefits of not killing or being under the threat of being killed now. If the politicians on both sides could just wind their respective necks in a bit, I think they'd be surprised how much support from their own sides they'd get.
     
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    I like to think the average person in NI would resist any kind of return to how it was.
     
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    It's evident its simmering though. I visited Belfast for the first time in early 2020 and I was surprised just how much tension you could sense and I felt very much an outsider there. Moreso than pretty much any other place I've been.

    Perhaps most surprising to me was the considerable police presence still.

    Sadly, the UK and primarily england, have created a situation that is difficult to resolve easily. Westminster politicians are blatantly poking a hornets nest, with some Irish politicians siding with Westminster. That creates division ahead of marching season.

    I agree with you that the general public will hope there isn't a return to those days, but they probably also wished for them to end back in the day too.
     
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    She is anything but Pretty.
     
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    Quote on BBC news "This Poots is made for walking"
     
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    I agree completely! I should have really clarified - "moderate within the confines of her party".
     
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    Durkar Red fancies her and is coming to splatter your sporran.
     
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