I will be quite quick.

Edwin Poots 'The DUP campaigned against the GFA,it consistently opposed and never signed it or signed up to it'

So is it you or Edwin telling the truth here?

They might have only signed the bits they liked Lfc 

He signed up , he was joint Ist minister
And shared power as I have explained

Now tell us , what did nationalists and republicans do
to bring about peace and the GFA ..

Take your time …

You haven’t answered the question lapsy

And no preaching about integrated education
from a section of society the nationalist / catholics who were instrumental over the
last 100 years of a religiously segregated school system instead of attending the state schools
which were there for all faiths or none . Remarkable , Is nothing ever nationalists fault

Now an integrated school system would be best , and is what there should be
But there’s not much point - unless of course the catholics stop the practice of segregation and religious schools
let us know when that happens

Not true again,i will leave you guess which side St Columbanus's College is,over a third of protestant pupils.

These integrated systems and housing are not the fault of nationalists as you are alluding to but a failure of the dup to acknowledge and implement the gfa for the good of everyone in NI.

Oh , and you still haven’t answered that question I notice

Here it is again , what concessions and compromises did nationalists and republicans make
To bring about peace ..


Take your time …

No ,upside down thinking again lapsy  the IRA agreed to stop murdering and bombing
because of the remarkable concessions given by the Unionists-
as I have described in the hope for peace . This was Unionist compromise

I am asking you what where the concessions made by nationalists and republicans
to bring about peace ….

lapsy don't communicate with this bigot please

With you lapsy , great effort trying to get common sense into the conversation

Now , I notice lapsy hasn’t been able to answer
the question … What did nationalists and republicans do to
bring about peace ..

and from the disgusting angry response from the likes of malay
we can see why he is having difficulty answering ,

LFC .....


Quick take your pills and get to bed ,Matron is coming round.

Here we go ....the forum goat liar AKUBULIAR

lads as said previously don't reply to these 2 scumbags on politics, they are possibly same person, because then all we can laugh at it is aka posting sevco great end to season on football forum 2023, already disgraced himself today. Be good laugh.

Logs out - reads post - logs back in.
Fools no one.

aka don’t engage with the Irish bigot or lapsy
or malay ..
just point out the truth .. and that is enough to send them running

okey doke , football ..

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Let’s be honest: barring some miracle, the DUP will come out of this election just as strong as from the last one. The party that’s proved its incompetence and corruption time and time again; that consistently slumps behind public opinion on LGBTQ and women’s rights; and that disregards its commitments both to integration and the Irish language sector, is likely to continue defining governance in the North. They will continue to use the Petition of Concern to veto progress and equality.

Previous elections have shown how the DUP manages to consolidate its dominance, even in the face of these scandals. So, the question for progressive activists becomes: how do we beat the DUP? What’s the most effective way to reduce their electoral power? In other words, how do we get people to stop voting the bigots in?

The answer lies in the reasons people vote DUP. A majority of their voters are not driven by support for their social or economic policies, or their method of governance. Instead, the DUP effectively campaign on the basis of “keeping them’uns out” (one has only to look at 2016’s “Keep Arlene First Minister” campaign to see this). As long as there is a Nationalist bogeyman- specifically that of Sinn Féin- to point to as a threat, the DUP will leverage it to get potential supporters to vote for them.

Having elections based on NI’s “constitutional question” fundamentally plays into their hands- and even if framing elections around Unionism versus Nationalism causes nationalists to vote for Sinn Féin, it will give them more reasons to enthuse their supporters in loyalist areas; the stronger the nationalist bogeyman, the longer the DUP can hide behind their unionism.

To be clear, discussing the North’s constitutional position is not sectarian. But the DUP use it to paper over the cracks of their corruption and bigotry. And in the unfortunate paradox of Northern Irish politics, the more Sinn Féin’s nationalism pushes for popularity, the further it gets from power to implement policies that benefit Irish people, working class communities, or even Irish unity, as the DUP use their unionism to power their extremism.

For real, decisive progress on equality and fundamental change in Stormont, the North needs an opposition that the DUP can’t use as an electoral asset.

This doesn’t mean activists should abandon their constitutional views. But it does mean we have to consider the best long-term way to achieve our political goals, and to deprive our opponents of the means by which to succeed. We have to de-sectarian-ise the North’s politics, to allow people of every background no reason to vote for the DUP. The bigots will only lose prominence once they lose the power to incite sectarianism.

The voices of the future in Ireland’s politics, for better or worse, must come from post-conflict organisations if they’re ever going to effectively overturn DUP rule and improve the lives of people in the North.

Here’s hoping that those post-conflict parties will continue to grow in this election, and provide accountability to which the DUP cannot shout “IRA!” in response.