Disturbing phrase of the day
Evidence if any were needed that ‘Dr’ John Coulter is mad as a March hare! ‘Dishy Diane Dodds’! *Shudders*
Stormont might not collapse but paramilitaries continue to disfigure Northern Ireland
The devolved institutions in Northern Ireland are supposedly ‘teetering on the brink’ of collapse yet again. After repeated failures to agree a balanced budget or implement welfare reform created months of uncertainty, the Executive’s future is now in doubt because the PSNI believes members of the IRA were involved in murdering a republican hit man. Despite its apparent seriousness, this particular predicament is unlikely to bring the shaky edifice at Stormont crashing down. The IRA was supposed to have disbanded its military ‘structures’ and decommissioned its entire arsenal of weapons back in 2005. It was on the basis of this understanding that power-sharing resumed in 2007 and the DUP entered government with Sinn Féin. From the outset it was a fairly flimsy pretext. Less than a year after John de Chastelain, the retired Canadian general, oversaw decommissioning, the Independent Monitoring Commission reported that the IRA retaine...
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My prediction: DUP, SF and UCUNF will each win a seat. The only interesting thing will be who comes first: I suppose in that sense it is a return to the status quo.
That image quite put me off my coffee and jaffa cakes that!
Regarding the EU election, it was a funny piece, although in that context not sure how appropriate the Catholic Church paedophilia part was at the end.
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