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Arlene Foster hanging by a thread.

Didn’t Boris promise unfettered access between UK and NI? Surely he’s a man of his word?
 
Jury is out on the reason as normal logic does not apply here.
Word is the MLA's believe she was not hard line enough whilst the voters think she was too hard.

The DUP used Brexit and all its twists to further their agenda which is to reverse the GFA and move back to the mothership. That and preservation of the advantage they had in NI for the last hundred years blinds them to where the future is heading.
 
Didn’t Boris promise unfettered access between UK and NI? Surely he’s a man of his word?

I didn't for a moment think he was telling fibs. Look at that honest little face there...

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Jury is out on the reason as normal logic does not apply here.
Word is the MLA's believe she was not hard line enough whilst the voters think she was too hard.

The DUP used Brexit and all its twists to further their agenda which is to reverse the GFA and move back to the mothership. That and preservation of the advantage they had in NI for the last hundred years blinds them to where the future is heading.

Tuppence ha'penny looking down on tuppence...
 
It also appears there's a good chance I won't have to look/listen to this on the TV much anymore...

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It also appears there's a good chance I won't have to look/listen to this on the TV much anymore...

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Nigel has taken Ermine, at the nomination of Boris- for services to the Tory Party. Maybe Foster will join him shortly. Her maiden speech could be on fundamentalist gay water boarding.

Johnson invariably does that little Mona Lisa smile and darts side ways glances when his lies are put to him face to face.
 
People are saying she's for the road because she encouraged people to abstain in recent vote on banning gay conversion therapy.

No real words to express how abhorrent these backward ass people are in my opinion. Uppa gheys as the colloquialism goes.
 
The DUP's electoral popularity has fallen to its lowest ebb ever and the chances of Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill becoming First Monster next time around are increasing steadily. And Sinn Féin, already the biggest party in the Dáil Éireann, could be in government down South next time around. No wonder the DUP is desperately summoning all hands to the pumps and considering jettisoning excessive baggage...
 
The DUP's electoral popularity has fallen to its lowest ebb ever and the chances of Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill becoming First Monster next time around are increasing steadily. And Sinn Féin, already the biggest party in the Dáil Éireann, could be in government down South next time around. No wonder the DUP is desperately summoning all hands to the pumps and considering jettisoning excessive baggage...

That gave me a nervous laugh. The future is going to be strange and scary.
 
The Arlene and Michelle show has been some sight to watch the last year or so.

The looks they give each other at the socially distanced Covid press conferences reminds me of the dagger looks you see two women give each other when they rock up to a wedding wearing the same dress (or trousers in Arlene's case)
 
The DUP's electoral popularity has fallen to its lowest ebb ever and the chances of Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill becoming First Monster next time around are increasing steadily. And Sinn Féin, already the biggest party in the Dáil Éireann, could be in government down South next time around. No wonder the DUP is desperately summoning all hands to the pumps and considering jettisoning excessive baggage...

Demographics will see Sinn Féin continue to rise. The young ones are well into them!
 
Arlene Foster has been unpopular with DUP voters for a while now: a poll of the party’s voters back in 2020 recorded just 9% who said she was doing a good job (Michelle O’Neill of Sinn Féin scored 41%).

That was on the back of a disastrous 2019 Westminster campaign: they were the biggest losers in NI in the 2019 Westminster elections, and lost vote-share in every single seat, even those that they held. Many former DUP voters shifted to the non-sectarian Alliance Party, and while this movement hasn't been enough to show up in election results yet, the trend is very strong, and has to be worrying the party leadership. (Sinn Féin’s grip on nationalist voters is also slipping, but too slowly to trouble the election results for a long while).

It’s odd, then, that in the face of losing voters to a more moderate and progressive party, the DUP has decided to double-down on hard line unionism and religious conservatism, which seem to be the very things that were turning away the younger electorate.
 


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