Brexit Impact on Northern Ireland

Think that was a mistake from Jeff. He should be out with all guns blazing. Bryson and Allister already doing damage.

People now reporting text of Windsor framework has been changed. I don’t think that is possible with eu involvement?

there were a few. One was a speaker on talkback. English guy and I didn’t get his name. I’ll try and find it.

Donaldson is cooked anyway

Maybe Donaldson & the upper echelons of the DUP are smarter than they let on.

The world and its mother knows that the Tories are screwed in the next election, which could be anything from 3 months to a year away. An incoming Labour government will also have no time for DUP nonsense, and be far more open to discussions with the UUP, Alliance, SDLP, & SF. So jeffrey and chums have decided to take one last bung, maybe a few peerages, get the green lane renamed to the "Ulster says no"/"red white and blue"/"we are the people" path or whatever, disappear into the lords, play dressup and forelock tug til to the end of their days. Leave the lunatic fringe of Unionism to Allister, Bryson and whatever DUP'pers didn't make it, before they pulled the ladder up behind them.

There seems to be a parallel between being the leader of the DUP and the Republican Speaker of the House in the USA. They're both impossible positions because they're trying to keep a large part of their party happy who don't understand how compromise works.

Donaldson is channeling his inner Trimble who was in turn channeling Paisley.

Remains to be seen if he pulls it off.

Funny that Bryson rubs Donaldson's nose in with Trimble's words, but it was Trimble who endorsed Bryson's hated GFA. The GFA he thought was in the bin at one stage and was glory tweeting about it.

I assume you feel the same about the secret meetings between blair a the shinners?

Remember me telling you who to take your anger out on re: Comfort Letters downcow? The same outfit who agreed this deal in secret.

That's all about speculation.

If you look back I never claimed it was anything other than speculation. Indeed I said I didn’t believe.

let’s hope I’m wrong though.

Unionists trying to manufacture some kind of win out of it all, you have to love it.

It's all about lording it really.

Yep

Considering that Brexit was attributed to be voted for by either the very rich or the very stupid, isn't Brexit itself pretty general.

Regardless of the intention, I fail to see how Brexit can seem anything but offensive to the reputation of anyone but those either with offshore accounts or some other means of getting an edge on the working population.

3.3 billion for the DUP's performance is hardly a very sane, normal approach is it?

When those that supplied the cash have record numbers of food banks and are in a panic if they spend a weeks stay in a hotel room for asylum seekers, then isn't the cost of eleven million asylum seekers housed and supplied with their £8 pocket money for a week a fact that despite being quite true, might be considered to be highly insulting when related as "news"?

In fact if you look at that major mouthpiece supporting Brexit in the UK, Tim Martin, at no time when spouting the difficulties of trading in Britain as an EU member state, did he seem to consider it necessary to point out how his businesses here in the South of Ireland managed to do so well under the thumb of his hated EU.

Brexit is a case where for most people, support for the fiasco is as detrimental to their reputation as would be sitting on the branch of a tree while sawing it off.

If One didn't find Brexit funny and as a result detrimental to the abilities of those who are not extremely rich supporting it, it would have to be taken seriously.

There lies the path to madness.

Even in The Mail in the UK. that poor quality substitute for cheap toilet paper, I notice that few now sing the praises of Brexit. Apart from a few reporters still pushing the Brexit pint bottles of wine rubbish, the vast majority of very vociferous supporters that were amongst the readership have gone to ground faster than garden slugs on a sunny day.

Unless you're actually able to point to the text that has been changed, your confidence seems . . . misplaced.

Bear in mind that the text is embodied in a treaty, negotiated and signed by the UK and the EU, and ratified by their respective parliaments. The process for amending the Treaty is the same as the process for making it in the first place - negotiation, signature, ratification. Have you any reason to think that that process has happened? If not, whence comes your confidence that the text has been changed?