I'm quite liking the DUP

Ruth for PM. You heard it here first.

unelected mp to be an unelected leader sounds about right for the torys,just ask mr barwell

Labour sort coalition with DUP in 2010 and 2015....... definite TOCK

Have the soros backed BBC attacked them yet ?

you would of thought Scot tories celebrating Scotland

Refused all tv interviews Sunday politics show Scotland

every where you turn, they're demonising the DUP now. led by the feminists and the LGBTrs - the very people who'll be a the top of Islam's annihilation list.
you literally couldn't make it up

Tories are loving the attention being taken from the DUP on this, hiding the fact vast majority of their MPs voted against same sex marriage in parliament bill

Indoctrination of people with religious ideas,theories and bullstuff are hardly exclusive to the DUP(much to my dismay).

The worry is that this could bring an end to the Sinn Finn ceasefire.

Sinn Fein don't have a ceasefire, hth. Read my point on the May and DUP thread.

Another clueless (can't call him an idiot as that could flag up a Betfair ban - so your not an idiot) that doesn't understand the DUP or NI problems.

In a democratic society there seems to be a lot of resentment from the "moral majority" against people with different opinions to themselves, championed by the BBC.

Will help ruin the Tories and make them a laughing stock [x] tick

Different gravy [x]^^

DUP want Nigel Farage to have a role in Brexit negotiations........ a big tick.

Foinavon
They cause Owen Jones' blood pressure to increase to bursting point...tick

I'm on board.

MEGA tick

DUP want Nigel Farage to have a role in Brexit negotiations........ a big tick.


Source?

on Farage



and by default on Jones

Making their mark already
[   This image is no longer available.   ]

Sure it's old but it is beautiful and it's colours they are fine Akabula.

Facts
Creationists
Believe the world was created in 7 Days. And is only 6000 years old ....tock

This is the bit that really gets me. Mocking that theory but embracing some big fairy in the sky.

Source?  Here you go.

http://metro.co.uk/2017/06/11/the-dup-could-insist-on-nigel-farage-having-a-role-in-brexit-negotiations-6701540/

..and some more.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/dup-demand-nigel-farage-plays-role-brexit-negotiations-160553146.html

Must be true if it's on the internet.

Thanks for the source but I doubt it.

Nigel Farage could become a bargaining chip in talks between the DUP and the Conservatives.
Theresa May wants the support of the Democratic Unionist Party to form a coalition.
But the Northern Irish party reportedly wants Farage to be brought into Brexit negotiations.
‘They hold a few cards,’ a source told the Sunday Times. ‘They want Farage as a lord or a role in government or he and Arron will put something together that will cause trouble for May.’

So they haven't actually said that other than a journalist quoting 'a source'. So not really a source is it?

It maybe not true, we shall see.

I hope he is involved. Has stood up to the EU bullies on many an occasion and would be a formidable negotiator.

I'm not doubting you MMY you gave the information you were informed, thanks for the source, at least you provided it.

This has the makings of a very interesting thread, I know quite a few people living in NI, but their views are clouded by past conflicts, I don't have have enough real knowledge of the present political atmosphere or aspirations  of the voters particularly the under 25s, to contribute.

I hope this thread remains civil and informative.

Agreed foxy. Let's keep it civil as you say. No buggery allowed...

play nice now Injera.

If i posted my views on the DUP and Arlene Foster i guess i would be red carded so i better leave this thread

I voted DUP Premier for the first time ever, always give your views.

You can put you point across without being offensive.

The remainers would have yet another meltdown if Farage was used as a negotiator.

p_r_e_m_i_e_r__f_a_n_t_a_s_y, we all have strong views, I was just saying I can't back up my views with current (media driven) in depth knowledge of the situation. .

Apologies foxy. I do struggle with perversion but will endeavour to comply (metaphorically you understand..)

I used to endeavour to comply with my strict 'disciplinarian mistress, on a Friday night down in Soho.

Really, foxy

I would love to start a thread asking who has visited a prostitute, I bet there would not be many honest answers

However, I do think that there should be government vetted, health vetted, brothels.  It is a commodity like any other. If I was a man I would not bother getting married or living with someone, i would just go to my favourite prostitute each week, simples

there is always Slicer's Olga  (isn't that the one - Waterloo)

There's more to marriage than just sex annie.
I mean will the prostitute make my dinner, iron my shirts or polish my shoes?

Oh bugger, I've helped take this thread  on a mystery tour. Sorry .

I mean will the prostitute make my dinner, iron my shirts or polish my shoes?






I have never in my life ironed a man's shirt or polished his shoes, and never will

Not a very good role model are you annie?

akabula

TBF though I've never did any of those chores either.

Never ever, akabula?

You remind me of my dad.  He had a cushy job at the law courts and, if he didn't go to the bookies, was home at about 4pm, just about the same time my mother got home after doing breakfast and then going to the factory to work.  But then dad just watched tv all night while my mother washed and ironed, cleaned, shopped and made dinner.  And at the weekend he did the same, spent the afternoon in the bookies and the night watching tv while my mother toiled away.  It put me off marriage and doing stuff for men for life.

I think i would have liked your pa Annie

You probably would be the only one, twizzle

My mother didn't work annie, my father had a decent job (director of the company he worked for)
I remember when he came in from work getting the paper pulled out my hand and given to him plus we didn't get dinner til he was ready.
He wasn't a tyrant or anything like that, it was just the way it was then.

Farage as negotiator is a genius idea from DUP.

He will go in with all sorts of demands, EU will throw a few out and happy to not give Farage everything he wants but we will still end up with a hard BREXIT

She was a lucky one, then akabula.  As I said my mother got up early then did breakfast for us five and then went to the factory for 9am and was there until 4pm five days a week.  My father also had because of the courts long holidays like teachers, mother never did

One think that really upset me when my mother died of cancer at age 54 was the amount she had saved - all about £400 of it to show for all her hard work.  Maybe she had to work because of my father's betting, I do not know.

I agree Fred, it is a good idea for farage to negotiate, he knows more than that lot put together about the eu I should think.

Marriage and betting are a difficult combination.

Right up until his eighties I used to meet up with my dad for every meeting at Newbury. We used to have a chat over a cup of tea before racing, then viewed the horses in the parade ring together, but other than that he was happy for me to go off and do my own thing. He did insist, though, that whatever I backed I had to put a fiver on for him, or a tenner, if I thought something was a really good bet.

The only time I ever deviated from that rule was for the Mares' Final in March 1994. I joined him in the stands before the off and told him I'd placed £20 for him on Go Mary at 33/1 (the mare should have been second or third fav, but being owned, bred and trained by an unknown Welsh lady called Cherry Phillips her form was ignored).

My dad took note, mumbled something about needing to go to the toilet, and disappeared, only to reappear a few moments later among the bookies. He was pressing the bet up in a fashion I don't think he had ever done before. At the age of 75 he had decided that this, finally, was the time to bet like a man.

As Go Mary held on from the Twiston Davies gamble, it was the only time ever that we embraced, hugged, call it what you will. I think he'd got back everything he'd frittered away in betting shops or on the track over the years, and basically was going to exit the game in front.

The postscript came a few months later. Like any gambler he knew the golden rule of keeping your successes to yourself, and particularly of keeping them from your missus. So it came to pass that one day, while my mother was struggling with the ancient hoover which for years my dad had refused point-blank to replace, she accidentally lifted up the carpet on his side of the bed and noticed a bulge in the underlay. She lifted up the underlay and, to her astonishment, found several thousand pounds in cash lying there.

To her credit she had the good sense first to take a handful of it and nip down Rumbelows to order a new hoover. Only then did she get down to the business of making my dad's life an utter misery over the affair for the rest of his days.

Enjoyed reading that Screaming..great story

With Mrs May's record of making the right decision, I believe that she is sending Ruth Davidson to negotiate with the DUP!

does mistress Olga like DP mr slicer?

plumbing new depths here Foxy!!!

Mr ok- Madam Olga rarely comments on politics other than to say she believes that most politicians deserve a fair crack of the whip. If they can afford it of course!

Indeed, but like politicians you do not answer the question

does she like  'DP'

I have never asked her.  Never had the courage.

I never been able to ask her. Difficult to when gagged and trussed up!

screaming

'was home at about 4pm, just about the same time my mother got home after doing breakfast and then going to the factory to work.  But then dad just watched tv all night while my mother washed and ironed, cleaned, shopped and made dinner.  And at the weekend he did the same, spent the afternoon in the bookies and the night watching tv while my mother toiled away.'

No offence but isn't that the lifestyle of a muslim today except for the bookies bit of course.

Ovalman,your insinuation is clear.There is no evidence for that.

We will see whether the Sinn Fein ceasefire holds if a deal is cut.Their frustration is clear given that the DUP is trying to take away some of their support by opposing the legalisation of abortion in Ireland.

sticky nails it
sub Rochdale for bookies

annie in hitab next

Going to get £1bn for Northern Ireland apparently.

£100m a vote not bad

apparently Arlene foster doesn't slip on the odd banana skin she goes looking for them to slip up on, and she seeks out mouths to put her foot in, hardly the cv for a reliable partener

DUP got their price, a million bucks each in a swiss account.

I am lucky that I have never been married, so my money was my own to gamble as much as I wanted.  Although I was never silly with it.  To me horseracing was a puzzle to be solved, not really about the money in a way.

The £1bn should be enough to cover the 'Cash for Ash' scandal that Arlene is currently up to her neck in over in Northern Ireland at the moment and which caused the collapse of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Sinn Fein whinging that £500m wasted on RHI.

Now Arlene is up £500m overall.... Sinn Fein will say £500m is nothing (NAP)

Casino politics the quickest way to the poorhouse, that's what happened the Republic 10 years ago.

Was politics at it's worst when McGuiness resigned and put Stormont into turmoil.
Merely an excuse to try to weaken the DUP.

Recent election shows the North is totally polarized in the electorate. DUP 10 seats, SF 7 seats, Independent 1 seat. All middle of the road parties were wiped out in the June election.
Even the geographical spread of the seats is split with the DUP holding Belfast and further North, SF holding all Border counties with Republic and mid rural ulster. Not much common ground between both communities.
People hoped the younger generation would move on and put their differences behind them, but the results show both sides have hardened further the other way, which is a pity.

What will the Story be with the Border Post Brexit ?

I can't see any big change myself but no one knows yet.

Both the Tory party and the DUP are in favour of a soft border.
The EU could demand that the ROI have border controls though.

Which is why ROI have stuffed up by committing themselves to the EU. They should have at least shown signs of waivering about staying in the EU before BREXIT negotiations begun. That way EU would be scared to stick up a hard boarder for fear of Ireland exiting too.

Now EU knows they can do anything they want that damages ROI and they will just roll over and take it.... again

NI voted remain, so there is no real appetite for a border from either side as I see it.

Agreed vicki but the EU might take issue with ROI citizens having free movement to the UK (and vice versa of course) but other EU nationals being restricted.
BTW it could be a back door for EU nationals in the future who move to the ROI and get ROI citizens rights.
Tis a minefield when you  think it through. 

Border areas and a couple of Belfast constituencies voted Remain, but other areas, such as Antrim, were solidly Leave.

At least that's how I remember the result. Will try and find the relevant maps in the morning.

I remember the %ages 56% remain and 44% leave.
Exact same as the Scottish indy ref.

They voted Remain despite the DUP's Leave stance.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-36614443

What's the issue with Foyle Vicki?
SDLP claiming electoral fraud.

Russians??? seriously tho, I have no a clue.

* not

that backdoor is already being exploited, Aka. It was used by one of the scumbags behind the recent London attack.

As I said, border areas and a couple of Belfast constituencies voted Remain, but other areas, such as Antrim, were solidly Leave.

[   This image is no longer available.   ]

Ur map is an exact replica of the Gen Election result more or less, Dup strongholds Leave, the rest Remain.
The irony being Sinn Fein are anti EU also.
Aka as Platini says, that route has been well worn too by Nigerians and Pakistani's Indian's, who get a legal travel visa to the Uk, then get the ferry to Larne and train down to Dublins immigration office, all unchecked and seek asylum.

Why are the talks taking so long? What are the sticking points vicky?

Ovalman is the go to man for that answer not me, Fredrescue

Gerry Adams met TM in Downing street today to express his concerns about any deal with the DUP.
I would imagine that has delated any announcement.

Listened to Adams after the meeting.
He said that the UK government was in breach of the GFA but then spoke of welcoming any extra cash for NI as long as it went to the Executive and was totally transparent.

LEFTIES SEETHING OVER THE DUP DEAL.

DUP has got the Tories to keep the triple lock and winter fuel payments for all. And the lefties still whinge

What about the "dementia tax"? That issue is driving me insane.

Chairman May and her money tree

^ Yeah, Theresa May must have found that Magic Money Tree !

£1bn to prop up her "strong and stable" government. That money could have gone to improving the NHS, schools and improving the death-trap tower blocks.

That money is being spent on improvong the NHS and infrastructure

Funny that before the election David Guake chief sec treasury said of the triple lock and winter fuel payments that - it is completely unsustaniable, now 6 weeks later Chairman May seems to have found the money , amazing isnt it , wheres there is a vote their is a way

".....it is completely unsustaniable, now 6 weeks later Chairman May seems to have found the money , amazing isnt it."

They can find it when it suits them.