Fiona McElroy
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Strat comms adviser. Former Whitehall comms public service behaviour & policy change. Journo, comms pro & campaigner. Was COVID19 now national infrastructure...
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🚨DUP MP Jim Shannon takes Parliamentary oath in English and Ulster Scots
No subtitles.
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🗳️ The bitter comments about Pat Cullen, nominated
as Sinn Fein candidate for Fermanagh South Tyrone …‘the mask finally slips’ etc
Surely a national & N Ireland civic society leader, head of Royal College of Nursing, is exactly the calibre of political leader we should hope for
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❤️ Kevin Bell tragically died in a USA hit & run accident. His father Colin now runs a repatriation trust
@KBRT2013
in his name.
They’ve helped 1,800 bereaved families bring a loved one home to Ireland after a sudden death.
Well done
@williamcrawley
. A remarkable charity
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🚨 Pretend lawyer attempts to school former Solicitor General in the law
@CommonsNIAC
Bryson: Windsor Framework has modified, suspended, subjugated Act of Union without consent
Robert Buckland: it’s not remarkable…the CREATION of Northern Ireland modified the Act of Union 🎤💥
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The Irish government leads by investing a staggering €1.14bn in Northern Ireland.
The UK government couldn’t even be bothered to confirm the name of who would be attending the launch in the press notice.
Says everything.
#PEACEPLUS
Thread🧵👇
NEW: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar
@LeoVaradkar
to officially launch €1bn
#EU
funding for Northern Ireland
Statement from the Irish government: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is in Belfast today (Monday) to announce €1.14 billion in funding through PEACEPLUS, a new EU programme
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Do we laugh or cry at this…
N Ireland Budget bill Sammy Wilson on his hobby horse again:
The people of N Ireland did not agree to the change of status which makes us a vassal state of the EU.
Damn right. People of N Ireland voted to remain. You DUP did this to yourselves.
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🚨GAA Jarlath Burns
@IrelandsFuture
‘We’re living in exciting times, rife with potential for positive change. Nothing to fear from dialogue.’
His personal view: Irish government to move on a civic forum & allow Irish citizens in the north to vote in Irish Presidential elections
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It’s lost its lid and the wheels have come off.
Available immediately.
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🚨Ian Paisley’s face while his DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson is angry…
‘What has the TUV delivered?
‘Posters in the dead of night’
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NEW HEADLINE:
Man living in England says Northern Ireland ‘hasn’t moved an inch’ in 20 years so aims to become local MP, fulfilling long held ambition for political life
*oh and he’ll buy a house here …but only if he wins 👀
.
@uuponline
north Down candidate, Col Tim Collins, currently lives in Canterbury but told
@bbcradioulster
's Good Morning Ulster programme that he will buy a house in the north Down area if he wins the seat🏡
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🗳️Insuring my Rolls-Royce in England costs less than for a Ford Fiesta in North Down, says Tim Collins
And not a hint of irony as so many people are concerned about the cost of living.
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🚨DUPs Jeffrey Donaldson confirms Nolan did NOT double source his senior party source claim that DUP was at 'make or break'
All
@BBCNewsNI
platforms repeated it causing massive political disruption. Either its an 'entertainment show' or is bound by BBC news guidelines
@adamcsmyth
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*AGAIN* In N Ireland 11 constituencies voted remain & 7 voted leave. 56% of people voted remain.
Yet the DUP with just 25% of the vote drove forward a ideological agenda that was not supported by the majority of people in NI. 75% of people rejected them.
And yet, here we are🥱
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🚨 Steve Baker & DUPs Ian Paisley’s attempt to rig a United Ireland border poll is dead
The Referendum Supermajority Bill is finished. Parliament soon prorogues for 7 Nov King’s Speech so all unfinished legislation ends. 50% +1 remains
DUP to Stormont pantomime rolls on
Another ✅ reframing the narrative to get DUP back to Stormont.
Also…
✅ United Ireland needs two referendum, one either side of the border
✅ Border poll will remain as 50% + 1
✅ crocodile tears from Brexit’s chief engineer are unwelcome
✅ Baker will be gone in a year
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So Sir Robert Buckland told Bryson ‘if you want to quote the Supreme Court, get it right’.
Then this ⬇️
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Nolan is really stretching the PSNI story this morning…… what a lack of knowledge & understanding of public administration and governance.
Let’s play lots of old interview clips and give a partial interpretation of a complex and nuance judgment. A stream of consciousness
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If ever we needed another example of political failure in N Ireland, it’s this. The systematic poisoning of Lough Neagh.
NI has worst NHS waiting lists, children without school places & now the drinking water is toxic.
I dare DUP to defend this political intransigence.
Copernicus Sentinel imagery of Lough Neagh taken last week. I don't think it's supposed to look like this?
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@CllrGaston
As an elected representative, I sincerely hope you understand public finance rules…. And how it’s prohibited to take capital budget (things) and switch it to revenue spend (people and systems)
Your suggestion would actually be illegal.
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Northern Ireland is literally falling apart
Government departments in Northern Ireland are experiencing widespread technical issues
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Frustrations growing in gov at DUP impasse with discussions to address lack of governance in N Ireland if DUP doesn't change its stance soon.
“We’ve given DUP everything they wanted. It’s getting to the point it looks like they just don’t want to govern" said Whitehall source
/1
“It’s getting to the point where it looks like they just don’t want to govern��
@politicshome
Sat read looks at the ongoing impasse in Northern Ireland
There’s growing exasperation within government, as attention turns to a key DUP conference in October
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Newly-built homes targeted during ‘sectarian hate crime’ in Co Antrim
How long until they burn them down so no one can live there?
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Another ✅ reframing the narrative to get DUP back to Stormont.
Also…
✅ United Ireland needs two referendum, one either side of the border
✅ Border poll will remain as 50% + 1
✅ crocodile tears from Brexit’s chief engineer are unwelcome
✅ Baker will be gone in a year
United Ireland referendum should need ‘super majority’ in North, Republic to carry, says Baker -
@MarkHennessy
reports
Northern Ireland minister says he now regrets UK’s Brexit vote did not require support of 60 per cent of those who voted
via
@IrishTimes
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🚨 Wow!!!
Introducing the compassionate face of the DUP…
incoming deputy first minister Emma Little Pengelly.
DUP MLA Emma Little-Pengelly tells
@mea_bc
councillor David Clarke that "as a fellow co-optee" it's "profoundly wrong" for him to continue as an independent after quitting the DUP, and urges him to resign.
📰 Background:
@BBCNewsNI
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🚨🗳️TUV has been told by the Electoral Commission that it will not be able to use the description ‘TUV-Reform UK’ for its N Ireland general election campaign as it is…
‘likely to mislead voters as to the effect of their vote’.
One hour until nominations close at 4pm.
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The focus remains on Nolan. At what point does focus shift to senior management: their lack of editorial oversight, financial governance and overall judgment.
National BBC insists on balance & curtails sensationalism. Yet BBCNI allows one individual to act with impunity
BBC Northern Ireland journalists are planning to address concerns about the BBC's coverage of the Stephen Nolan stories from last week. Multiple sources indicate they will discuss this with management and the NUJ. "Our newsroom's integrity has plummeted," remarked an insider.
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🚨 UUPs Tim Collins: I could do a better job…
A lesson of how NOT to do political campaigning
‼️no vision for North Down
‼️local concerns are trivial
‼️all problems are someone else’s fault
‼️low paid workers don’t contribute
‼️EU caused Brexit
‼️migrants
‼️slag everyone off
Wow
@TimCollinsND
says:
-
@StephenFarryMP
is broadly “pro-nationalist”
- “Face of societies” are changing because of migration
- His rivals have “no quality whatsoever” as they never left NI
- People love benefits & hate work too much to vote for a UI
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Appalling on
@bbcradioulster
Ben Lowry & Stephen Nolan self-appointed conscience of N Ireland berate those who don’t subscribe to their partisan view of horrific events in Israel & Palestine.
Even talking over Jewish woman Sue saying everyone should call for ceasefire & peace
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🚨Prof Brendan O'Leary says 2030 is first realistic date for border poll
@IrelandsFuture
1. Don’t call for premature referendum
2. Prepare prepare prepare
3. A detailed model to persuade people north & south of United Ireland. Don't rely on votes of principle
#IrelandsFuture
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Westminster chatter DUP’s eight MPs will vote against 2nd reading of PM’s immigration bill tonight. Once again another attempt to undermine the Good Friday Agreement.
They could’ve abstained but can’t resist backing the ERG again…. like that worked well last time
#RwandaBill
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Zero mention of Northern Ireland in the
#KingsSpeech
DUPs hope of bespoke legislation has not materialised.
Closest reference:
“My government will promote the integrity of the union and strengthen the social fabric of the United Kingdom”
Next move is the DUPs.
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🚨DUP founder Wallace Thompson
@wallyt53
says
@IrelandsFuture
unionists/loyalists may 'sound triumphalist & bigoted' but often feel 'beleaguered & fatigued'. Nationalists/republicans shd engage.
'Mistakes were made in years of unionist rule, we need to learn. UI is on the way.'
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🚨Former loyalist paramilitary David Adams tells
@IrelandsFuture
'I will vote for the option best for my grandchildren whether united Ireland or in the union. 'Reconciliation must be at the heart for our communities & can't reduce to one winning over the other. Do no harm'
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🚨SDLP MP
@ClaireHanna
takes her Parliamentary oath as Gaeilge, in Irish & English
‘In friendship and in hope of a reconciled new Ireland, my allegiance is to the people of Belfast South & mid Down and I say these words in order to serve them’.
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DUP collapsed Stormont 20
months to give EU the flick rather than fight for people of N Ireland
Day before DUP annual conference, more politics of distraction - blocking Casement Park, the horror in the Middle East.
Silence on £2b NI budget deficit, worst NHS waiting lists…
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Sympathy is evaporating for the DUP.
More commentators are observing not going back to Stormont as refusal to power share with Sinn Fein as First Minister.
The focus is no longer their ideological protest of the Irish Sea border, now Windsor Framework rollout has begun.
Perceptive from
@JohnGPeet
in The Economist: The DUP might have issues with the Windsor Framework, but boycotting Stormont suits them when SF would hold First Minister. They would have been banking on a messier launch of the WF to justify their position:
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To the man who took on the establishment to ensure the new pitch for
@naomh_pol
was built in Holywood after ensuring there was a lease in place to secure its future. My dad and my mum
@eamonnmcelroy1
Come on St Paul’s
#cheersquadmcelroy
@PaircTV
#proudday
#StPauls
#Holywood
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The relatives of 15 people murdered at McGurk's Bar fought for their loved ones for more than 40 years.
N Ireland Attorney General has ruled new inquests should take place after new evidence was uncovered.
In 5 days, UK government will stop all Troubles inquests
#JusticeDenied
Relatives of 15 people murdered in a bomb attack on a bar have been told the case merits new inquests.
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When DUP backed hard
#Brexit
for the UK, they put the people of N Ireland as their second concern.
Then spent the last years incredulous that N Ireland wasn’t the UK gov 1st priority.
And now the UK reverts to type & says UK interests are primary. Who loses?
THE WHOLE OF NI
As Treaty Making is reserved to Westminster it seems sensible, to me, for Westminster to take control of implementing whatever it negotiated even if this narrowly & specifically intrudes on a devolved competence. Henry Vlll powers could be used as allowed with the legislation
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🚨 Mick Lynch
@IrelandsFuture
'Britain's Trade Union movement broadly supports Irish unity by consent. Unions must stand up, demand real Irish freedom & tangible change in all parts of Ireland. Can't leave it to politicians, it has to be a workers movement as well as political'
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@JohnnyMercerUK
You omit to mention your Legacy Act has been struck down as unlawful, denies justice to all victim families in N Ireland & rightfully will not grant your promised immunity to British soldiers & agents. You try for cynical party political points on 80th D-Day anniversary. Shameful
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🚨 So NO10 has told Northern Ireland minister Steve Baker to pipe down.
How many hot phone calls followed his ‘personal’ proclamation to
@BritishIrishPA
that a United Ireland border poll should demand a 60% +1 supermajority given disaster regret of Brexit.
Via
@BBCJayneMcC
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@chhcalling
How dare you.
You know this statement is not true. The damage & hurt you have inflicted on N Ireland bereaved families just to scratch a Tory political itch.
You know you’ve made victims in N Ireland second class citizens in justice.
No one wanted your Legacy Act.
#Repeal
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🚨’It was a much a bolt out of the blue in Westminster as it was in Northern Ireland.
‘Downing Street had no advance notice that Jeffrey
Donaldson was going to resign or that there was an investigation happening’, says BBC political correspondent Damian Grammaticas
@dngbbc
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🗳️ Reform UK is
#GE24
partner of the TUV in Northern Ireland. Their leader Nigel Farage personally backs DUPs Sammy Wilson and Ian Paisley.
Make no mistake…. this is what Reform UK stands for.
EXCLUSIVE: We’ve gone undercover inside Nigel Farage’s Reform UK campaign in Clacton and found evidence of anti-migrant rhetoric, homophobia and one canvasser making racist and offensive remarks. As
@DarshnaSoni
reports.
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💔 1 May 2024
💔 for all those families who lost loved ones in the Troubles in Northern Ireland
💔 for all those denied justice
💔 repeal the
#LegacyAct
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Why does DUP still maintain N Ireland’s best future is to remove access to EU single market & stick with the UK.
OBR says Brexit will wipe £100bn off the UK economy as UK’s flagship trade deal is declared worth even less than previously thought.
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The DUP should analyse this poll. Their former Conservative political allies are about to be obliterated at the next election.
There is no solace for the DUP with the Labour Party.
Jeffrey Donaldson…
do the right thing for all citizens of N Ireland & get back to Stormont
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Conservatives are heading for electoral oblivion on scale of 1997 defeat, poll reveals
The most authoritative opinion poll in five years forecasts that the Tories will retain just 169 seats, while Labour will sweep into power with 385 seats, giving Sir Keir Starmer
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🚨More UUP
#GE24
news.
N Ireland’s health service is in crisis needing focus, transformation & accountability.
Now health minister Robin Swann is offski to court Westminster’s green benches.
North Down’s candidate Tim Collins crashed & burned yday.
What’s going on
@BeattieDoug
?
Robin Swann tells
@MarkCarruthers7
he will step down as Health Minister before the Westminster election campaign .
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🚨A very important analysis of why a UK government history of Northern Ireland should be rejected.
To offer hand picked historians access to UK gov files while denying the information to victim families is abhorrent.
A partial history is not an equivalent to truth
#Legacy
Thread. Another weak defence from the advisory group of this official Troubles history project that again fails to address its connection to the Legacy /1
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👀 imagine….
UK government doesn’t fund
#Casement
Park & has to withdraw the Northern Ireland venue from the 2nd biggest global football event…
📣 the only venue on the island of Ireland for
@uefa
#Euro2028
UK & Ireland championship will be in
☘️DUBLIN☘️
😳 embarrassing
The idea that the money for
#Casement
isn’t there is pure nonsense. If it’s not supported, and the Euros are missed, that’s a strategic choice.
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🚨How dare you.
You know this statement is not true. The damage & hurt you have inflicted on N Ireland bereaved families just to scratch a Tory political itch.
You know you’ve made victims in N Ireland second class citizens in justice.
No one wanted your Legacy Act.
#Repeal
Keir Starmer’s words are nothing but lip service to veterans.
In 2023 Starmer called to repeal the NI Legacy Bill.
Labour voted against the Bill.
Repealing the Legacy Act would see veterans hauled before the courts and delay families getting answers and justice.
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🚨NORTHERN IRELAND
*Pay attention*
Apparently UK government now blames the need to restore NI assembly for lack of Brexit benefits!!!
UK could diverge from EU but can’t because DUP brought Stormont down.
Unbelievable!! Well done Arlene, backing the Tories hard Brexit.
🚨🚨In today's
#brexitshambles
@KemiBadenoch
has declared that Brexit benefits require EU divergence amid concerns from Tory backbenchers that changes will be limited as part of efforts to restore devolved government in NI. via
@BenHattonJourno
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🚨If people in N Ireland ever need proof the Conservative government couldn’t care less about the place…
1. NI Brexit irritant
2. cynical Legacy Act denying victim families justice
3. failed migration system impact transferred to NI to achieve appalling Rwanda deportations
'We are not in the business of having more illegal migrants in the UK.'
With Ireland planning to send asylum seekers back to the UK, Work and Pensions Secretary
@MelJStride
tells
@NickFerrariLBC
it's because 'the early signs of the deterrent effect' are already showing.
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🚨DUPs Carla Lockhart accuses Irish gov of hypocrisy & unsubstantiated numbers of UK refugees crossing from NI to Ireland
#PMQs
#Rwanda
DUP should be careful. The success of their last relentless political point scoring strategy on Brexit put only N Ireland in the cross-hairs
Rwanda Row 🇬🇧 🇮🇪
“We can’t have cherry-picking of international agreements.”
PM’s message to the Irish Gov.
He tells pre-polling day
#PMQs
that the NI SoS is “seeking urgent clarification that there will be no disruption or police checkpoints at or near the border”.
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🚨 N Ireland SoS Chris Heaton Harris ‘shoots’ Steve Baker’s supermajority fox
‘No shift in government policy. Gov is unwavering in commitment to all strands of GFA, principle of consent & parity of esteem. Change requires majority consent’
Still have confidence in his minister?
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🚨Casement Park redevelopment is still on programme for work to begin Q4 2024.
It could be six months before procurement is complete and contracts are signed. Very positive there are companies already on frameworks to bid.
Work should then start by Christmas
#Euros2028
Casement Park: Tenders for redevelopment to go out within days
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DUP silence on this is unsurprising…. and also tone deaf.
Another penalty to all NI citizens where movement of people from Ireland to N Ireland will require the strictest controls yet import controls should be effectively waived. Utter hypocrisy.
Visitors to Northern Ireland - including those arriving in Dublin - will not be exempt from the new Electronic Travel Authorisation permit, the UK government says
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🏆 DUPs Jeffrey Donaldson wins big if unelected Little Pengelly is dep FM…
❓HoLords peerage in June ‘24 honours, no Lagan Valley gen elex contest
❓hold LV seat, accept peerage, force bi-election, DUP may lose
⁉️lose LV seat, accept peerage
‼️hand DUP leadership to whoever, meh
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General election 2024
Northern Ireland week 1:
Unionism is in headspin swinging a wrecking ball…
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Ok UK government… over to you for N Ireland investment in the
@hmtreasury
budget on 6 March
The Government has today announced unprecedented funding of over €800 million for
#SharedIsland
investment priorities.
📖Further details:
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🚨HoC debate: Ireland’s constitutional position
C Eastwood: despite the command paper, GFA is sacrosanct & it’s up to people of Ireland N & S
J Donaldson: WF undermined principle of consent. This resets it
CHH: Nothing changes GFA principle. You both make exactly same point
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@Choyaa13
@BenLowry2
@duponline
@News_Letter
It is also more than disappointing that as editor of the unionist leaning regional newspaper you failed to reference or call out the misogynistic behaviour/language of Jim Allister towards both Michelle ONeill and Emma Little Pengelly. Women read your paper & vote too!
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How brave of Muhammad Atif to speak out how his peaceful community loving charity was burned out. PSNI looked the other way & told
@BMCA22881109
to deal with loyalist ‘community leaders’ themselves after racist arson attacks on Belfast Multicultural Association.
#Notinmyname
A charity targeted in racist attacks had been advised by police to reassure loyalist community leaders it was not running a mosque,
@BBCSpotlightNI
reports
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🚨UUP party leader Doug Beattie starts the week in defence.
Of North Down candidate Tim Collins disastrous interview: ‘He was factually incorrect, not UUP policies, he did not have all the info’.
So will Tim Collins now tell the people of North Down what he really stands for?
🚨NEW:
@uuponline
Leader
@BeattieDoug
speaks to Political Reporter
@jamesgould23
about Tim Collins comments & Health Minister Robin Swann.
Says language from Mr Collins was "clumsy" & didn't "reflect party policies."
Mr Swann to stay as Minister until budget & PFG announced.
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@UnionistCentri1
HM Treasury rules are clear…you can’t take capital budget (things) & transfer to services (people). When UK gov sponsored Casement as part of the UK/Ireland bid it was effectively underwriting the project. be clear, this is the outgoing UK gov failing to deliver its ‘guarantee’
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/2 imagine 5 July
UUP’s Robin Swann, former NI health minister as South Antrim MP & SF Pat Cullen in a new era of political influence
A collaboration of experience & wisdom to lobby No10, HM Treasury, NIO to secure 3-yr funding for NI health in this Autumn’s spending review
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In 2019 there was a PM called Theresa May who’s own love of preserving the Union surpassed the DUP
But instead of embracing her devotion, DUPs need to stick it to the EU with a hardline Brexit was the prize at that time. Oh dear.
Talk about shortsighted
In January 2019 we elected these 8 DUP MPs.
Now we are told the union is under the greatest threat it has ever been, that we are semi detached from the UK.
What did they do wrong?
Did we choose the wrong unionist party?
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🔔It’s ‘extraordinary’ Edwin Poots first breach of neutrality of the Speaker’s office is to threaten ‘to clock’ another unionist, rather than criticise Sinn Fein
‼️Ben Lowry’s lamentable assessment today yet no criticism of Jim Allister’s misogynistic language & behaviour.
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Did Rory realise he was talking out loud?
Sometimes you need to know when to quit… attempting to compare real life meaningful events to the elitist world of golf which celebrates obscene amounts of money & is inaccessible to most people. Seriously?
Rory says golf is split & needs a peace deal like the Good Friday Agreement: ⛳️
“Catholics weren't happy, Protestants weren't happy, but it brought peace and then you just sort of learn to live with whatever has been negotiated, right?" ⛳️
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@JimAllister
Even you know Jim as an elected representative, that you can’t switch capital into revenue budgets and vice versa.
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Today’s DUP political engagement strategy is brought to you by Gavin Robinson MP.
Talk slower, shout louder, change the narrative at least once a week…. 🙄
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🚨 Eminent economist Dr Adam Posen tells more than 11,000 online viewers & thousands more attending
@IrelandsFuture
at Odessy arena, Belfast: 'I am very inspired to be here on a Saturday afternoon engaging in conversation in a world full of disinformation and mistrust'
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And here’s a big reason why DUPs Jeffrey Donaldson knows he won’t get a look in after 1 Jan 2024.
Times read:
Get ready for one of the longest, the most expensive and most bruising of election contests in history
* Ministers think Sunak has made strategic error in placing so much emphasis on Rwanda. ‘We’re like a dog returning to its sick’
* Sunak will go into campaign
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@SJAMcBride
And not a hint of irony as so many people are concerned about the cost of living.
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An important & honest contribution
@ZoeJardiniere
on why Reform UK & unelected Farage receive a disproportionate amount of media coverage & woefully inadequate level of scrutiny … including subversive attempt to destabilise N Ireland despite failing to register in NI
#GE24
This is excellent by
@ZoeJardiniere
on the easy ride being given to Nigel Farage and Reform during this campaign and the big immigration questions they still can't answer
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Incisive on PSNI
@andreemurphy
‘Policing along with much of Good Friday Agreement infrastructure, has broken under weight of irreformability of unionism, its inability to acknowledge past violations, share power & influence.
The GFA in all its parts requires robust protection’
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@cellah26bsky
Absolutely. There’s nothing to celebrate here. UK changed the design/build specification of Casement Park then cynically passed responsibility for delivery to DUP minister Gordon Lyons at Dept of Communities.
Again, dependency on UK government who ultimately didn’t care.
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@HoratioNelson0
Menace?
I’ve not heard the Alliance Party advocating
drowning people as a way to solve a problem
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🗳️Alarm bells for DUP as General Election poll puts party 10 points behind result in 2019
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#week13
and still Noah’s mum has no answers to why her son was found dead in a storm drain
@MyNoah8
The justice system is there to support victims. Why are there still no answers?
#JusticeForNoah
#RememberMyNoah
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🚨Couldn’t make it up…
Boris Johnson turns up at his polling station to vote today…. and is sent packing.
Fails to show photo ID, a new requirement in HIS Elections Act 2022.
Remember, the rules never applied to him. Those who backed him have lasting questions to answer.
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If this logic follows through it means you can’t be a nurse & have a political opinion.
Or you can’t be a public servant and have a political opinion?
How’s about…. Sammy Wilson was still a teacher when he first got elected.
This is so illustrative of historical unionist thinking
Basically saying you can’t *really* be a nurse & also a Republican- which is of course absolute nonsense
It shows why unionism is a shrinking cohort & reflects the type of attitudes that used to run everything in the north
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🚨 Disabled citizens are a substantial vote with 25% North & 21% South.
@joanne_sansome
tells
@IrelandsFuture
their human rights are the same as everyone else & a new Ireland must protect those rights & adopt UN Convention of Persons with Disability into domestic law & policies
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🗳️A ridiculous & irresponsible thing to say.
Why is UUP still in the executive & not opposition after rejecting the NI budget?
Or why is Mike Nesbitt as health minister not issuing a ministerial direction to health perm sec to spend whats needed & demanding government refund it
NI’s new health Minister
@mikenesbittni
says he would rather “go to jail than implement the catastrophic cuts “ - he says nurses shld be allowed to nurse and lead a proactive service.
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DUPs Carla Lockhart is a member of the
@CommonsNIAC
. She disagrees with her committee’s recommendations & submitted a minority report from DUP… as what, further evidence to the inquiry? This should be published.
Also government is not obliged to implement any recommendations.
Stormont's first and deputy first ministers should be renamed "joint first ministers", a Westminster committee has recommended
@BBCNewsNI
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👀 N Ireland voted to remain in EU yet DUP/TUV overwhelming backed this gaslighter to force a hard Brexit.
Now incredulous the Stormont brake has failed at its first test, they remain unapologetic for their relentless pursuit of political ideology crippling NI public services
Boris Johnson found to have broken Acoba rules for a THIRD time
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🚨DUPs Gavin Robinson challenges TUV not to stand anti-Protocol candidate in his East Belfast seat, majority 1,800.
While scathing of ‘flying in’ Hoey & Widdecombe to criticise NI Protocol as both failed to vote against it, he’s willing to talk to election tactics with TUV
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Falkland Islands renamed Malvinas Islands by EU for first time after UK government protests are dismissed.
UK no longer has a seat at the EU table so Argentina’s persuasion holds more sway. What would Mrs Thatcher say.
#Brexit
strikes again
Tomorrow’s Telegraph.
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The Kevin Bell Trust is an amazing charity run by
Kevin’s family. They work with families from the island of Ireland whose loved ones have died overseas.
If you don’t know of them, look them up and throw them a few £/€/$.
The family of Sinead O'Connor has thanked the Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust for the charity's help in returning her body from England following the singer's death
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DUP Carla Lockhart’s eager need to jump to Bryson’s defence
@CommonsNIAC
earned a rebuke from chair
@Simon4NDorset
Sadly the DUP narrative is so focused on preaching it’s all being done to us, there isn’t even room for following the basic Parliamentary protocol.
@Shellmccabe
@HeavenScentxs
Carla, I mean Miss Lockhart, caned to his defence. Really helped.
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@cellah26bsky
@uuponline
@BeattieDoug
It’s absolute nonsense dog whistle politics trotted out so easily with zero prospect of it happening. UUP needs to make clear… is this party policy or not and are they willing to undermine the Good Friday Agreement?
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UK gov warned DUP that ‘unelected figures were steering N Ireland’.
Windsor Framework rolled out & Jeffrey Donaldson had to respond. He won’t bow to ‘pressure, threats or blackmail’ despite noise from the sidelines.
Next move… DUP exec meeting & conference with gov sweetener?
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🚨 Prof
@cjhumanrights
says
@IrelandsFuture
future is a project of 'reconciliation and uniting the people of our shared island – the people need to be at the heart of it – now tomorrow and forever'
#IrelandsFuture
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