UK Politics Thread VII: Wake me DUP inside [can't wake UUP]

[HMS Queen Elizabeth]

Because they lost. We do celebrate killin' Guy Fawkes. Why? Because Bonfire Night is cool.

[Souseiseki]

the UN have made the observation that maybe saying we shouldn't let human rights get in the way of combating terrorism is a bad idea in a world where dictators are constantly stripping away human rights under the guise of combating terrorism

[Eastfield Lodge]

Because they lost. We do celebrate killin' Guy Fawkes. Why? Because Bonfire Night is cool.

What other day of the year are we allowed to burn stuff in our backyards without complaint and let off explosives for shits and giggles?

the UN have made the observation that maybe saying we shouldn't let human rights get in the way of terrorism is a bad idea in a world where dictators are constantly stripping away human rights under the guise of combating terrorism

Oh come on, does that mean that we know have to strip away human rights? Stupid UN for opening its mouth.

[Souseiseki]

i am legit surprised that bonfire night has not been banned and would not be shocked if people making a fuss about fireworks eventually made it so

[The Huskar Social Union]

Because they lost. We do celebrate killin' Guy Fawkes. Why? Because Bonfire Night is cool.

What other day of the year are we allowed to burn stuff in our backyards without complaint and let off explosives for shits and giggles?

12th of July.

Get to burn down entire stretches of terraced housing too!

[Primagrodon]

I made this a while back

[HMS Queen Elizabeth]

DUP are only dangerous to enemies of this country, whereas Labour supports enemies of this country. That should be an important distinction.

[Ifreann]

i am legit surprised that bonfire night has not been banned and would not be shocked if people making a fuss about fireworks eventually made it so

I can hear the cries of health and safety/PC gone mad already.

[Ifreann]

DUP are only dangerous to enemies of this country, whereas Labour supports enemies of this country. That should be an important distinction.

Yeah, those British Catholics are just enemies of the people.

[Souseiseki]

DUP are only dangerous to enemies of this country, whereas Labour supports enemies of this country. That should be an important distinction.

the background of unionism in northern ireland is trying to firebomb civilians of the wrong religion because you're mad at the prospect of equal rights, fucking it up and killing your own then running away as the curb your enthusiasm theme plays and getting mad about the gays

[The Huskar Social Union]

DUP are only dangerous to enemies of this country, whereas Labour supports enemies of this country. That should be an important distinction.

Yeah, those British Catholics are just enemies of the people.

Cant forget about them Damn foreigners either right, or us pesky potato people, Women, or the vile gays and lesbos, or them shararara fellas.

Or anyone else they hate which is pretty much near everyone in NI.

[Camphuys Islands]

Oh god, flame war imminent.

As an outsider supporter of the Unionists, I have to say that both parties did pretty horrible.

Unionist forces are shit at firing on the correct enemies though :^)

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[Salandriagado]

The title is..... acceptable.

And now that NI will be taking the spotlight for a bit, welcome friends to the world of 1690!

What the hell did I just watch?

[The Huskar Social Union]

The title is..... acceptable.

And now that NI will be taking the spotlight for a bit, welcome friends to the world of 1690!

What the hell did I just watch?

Our we boyo Willie Frazer at his finest.

In all seriousness he is a vile fucking prick that pretty much everyone in NI loves making fun of.

[Dumb Ideologies]

I prefer the unionists of Ireland over the republicans in the same way as a Spurs fan might slightly prefer Chelsea over Arsenal.

They can still both go fuck themselves.

[Ifreann]

I prefer the unionists of Ireland over the republicans in the same way as a Spurs fan might slightly prefer Chelsea over Arsenal.

They can still both go fuck themselves.

Or at least, they can until the DUP save Ulster from auto-sodomy.

[Questers]

A lot of the loyalist paramilitaries pretty much just killed random catholic people in revenge attacks.

If they were exclusively shooting at the IRA then that would be a different matter - that was the job of the Army and Police and UDR though.

[Tinhampton]

And despite the fact UKIP have never managed more than two MPs in Parliament since 2010

FTFY UKIP didn't even have a single MP until late 2014

[The Huskar Social Union]

A lot of the loyalist paramilitaries pretty much just killed random catholic people in revenge attacks.

If they were exclusively shooting at the IRA then that would be a different matter - that was the job of the Army and Police and UDR though.

Not just catholics, they even abducted and murdered their own people because they mistook them for being catholic, or because they had catholic friends.

And now they are killing one another over drug feuds in the modern day because that is their main business now, pushing drugs on people and keeping them in circulation.

[Philjia]

A lot of the loyalist paramilitaries pretty much just killed random catholic people in revenge attacks.

If they were exclusively shooting at the IRA then that would be a different matter - that was the job of the Army and Police and UDR though.

Not just catholics, they even abducted and murdered their own people because they mistook them for being catholic, or because they had catholic friends.

And now they are killing one another over drug feuds in the modern day because that is their main business now, pushing drugs on people and keeping them in circulation.

And arguing about marching and flags.

[Calladan]

DUP are only dangerous to enemies of this country, whereas Labour supports enemies of this country. That should be an important distinction.

Even with the broad sweeping statement of "lets forget everything that happened in the troubles", the DUP are a bunch of religious fanatics who would set women's rights back to the stone ages, gay rights back to before the flood and would make Donald Trump look like Al Gore on the subject of climate change.

That is not something you can say about Labour by ANY stretch of the imagination.

So, for me, I think I would prefer to have Labour in power than a bunch of medieval witch-hunters and gay-bashers.

But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe what this country needs is to go back to a time when gay men routinely had the living shit beat out of them just for being gay, when women had to go to back alley abortionists just because a bunch of religious fanatics thought they knew better and when climate change was just an idea in the mind of fringe scientists and the loony left. Maybe that's what it will take to make Britain Great again.

[Vassenor]

DUP are only dangerous to enemies of this country, whereas Labour supports enemies of this country. That should be an important distinction.

Are people still clinging desperately to this lie? Even after it's been pointed out that members of the Conservative party have either been members of or laundered money for the IRA?

[Ifreann]

A lot of the loyalist paramilitaries pretty much just killed random catholic people in revenge attacks.

If they were exclusively shooting at the IRA then that would be a different matter - that was the job of the Army and Police and UDR though.

Not just catholics, they even abducted and murdered their own people because they mistook them for being catholic, or because they had catholic friends.

And now they are killing one another over drug feuds in the modern day because that is their main business now, pushing drugs on people and keeping them in circulation.

Ulster says No to saying No to drugs!

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Not just catholics, they even abducted and murdered their own people because they mistook them for being catholic, or because they had catholic friends.

And now they are killing one another over drug feuds in the modern day because that is their main business now, pushing drugs on people and keeping them in circulation.

And arguing about marching and flags.

flegs*

[Imperializt Russia]

We aren't paying the salary. We're managing the Crown estates, owned by the Royal Family, and because the Crown Estates are making more money both the government and the Royal Family are receiving more money from the Crown Estates.

The Sovereign Grant, which pays for the salaries of her household, official travel and upkeep of palaces, is to increase by more than £6m in 2018/19.

The Sovereign Grant comes out of public, tax-payer funded money. If you can explain to me how that means WE (the British tax payers) are not paying for this dotty old witch of a woman to live a life style of luxury and decadence while we literally have people starving on the streets and burning to death in substandard housing, go ahead.

It should also be noted we gave this feckless wench £370m to do up her houses last year as well. No wonder the government can't afford to raise the public sector pay!!

The government can't afford to raise public sector pay because it's not in their ideological interest to and, until recently, wasn't electorally advantageous to do so.

The government has demonstrated, many times before this DUP deal, that there is a magic money tree, but it only gets shaken for their direct benefit. Not the national interest, not the public interest. Tory party economic interest.

we should have never base it around windows in the first place :^)

Your proposed alternative being?
Getting "Windows for Warships" working on Lizzie would be been an enormous cost and will still have error and squiggles to shake out whenever she makes her first voyage.

Designing an OS from scratch into which the desired weapon systems (all of which were almost certainly built on XP anyway) is monumental amounts of work with probably as much or more avenue for colossal system failure, since the design of such a custom OS will inevitably be handed out to the lowest bidder anyway.

What the hell did I just watch?

Our we boyo Willie Frazer at his finest.

In all seriousness he is a vile fucking prick that pretty much everyone in NI loves making fun of.

Oh.

Is that what that Frazers account was in reference to?

[Hydesland]

Even with the broad sweeping statement of "lets forget everything that happened in the troubles", the DUP are a bunch of religious fanatics who would set women's rights back to the stone ages, gay rights back to before the flood and would make Donald Trump look like Al Gore on the subject of climate change.

You say they're fanatics, but in the context of Northern Irish protestantism isn't this just mainstream conservatism? How different are they for instance from the UK conservatives of the 1970s, would they also be described as fanatics? I'm not going all culturally relativist - but I feel the word fanatic has implications of being vastly outside the mainstream of the parent culture, and I'm unsure that's the case for NI.