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i guess she comes from a long line of chatterers so somebody probably knew her dad or something
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 12:39 |
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Jose posted:the press loved may before she had to campaign against corbyn. they do not love williamson they love whoever they are told to love.
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 13:24 |
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Northern Ireland has been on fire for a week
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 14:01 |
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thats a whole different country
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 14:05 |
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Nonsense posted:Northern Ireland has been on fire for a week lol at the bbc's coverage
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 14:09 |
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inquiry into unions but not government contracts lol https://twitter.com/joepike/status/1379778427935424520?s=20
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 14:20 |
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also the only people interviewed as part of that len mcluskey story are his last opponent in the unite leadership election, ben bradshaw and neil coyle who are 2 of the worst MPs in the labour party. bradshaw particularly just spends all of his time bashing the unions
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 14:34 |
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Any good sources for what's happening in Northern Ireland? The media here in freedomland is totally ignoring it.
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 14:42 |
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The guardian is at least talking about it, even if it mostly blames it all on "criminal gangs" and "disaffected teens" lol https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/05/further-violence-breaks-out-in-northern-ireland-despite-appeals-for-calm
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 14:51 |
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/07/northern-ireland-dishonesty-over-brexit-fuelled-loyalist-anger-says-stormont-minister Aww do the unionists feel betrayed, so sad that this unforeseeable event has come to pass
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 15:04 |
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I imagine everybody in NI feels pretty loving abandoned at the very least
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 15:06 |
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Source4Leko posted:Any good sources for what's happening in Northern Ireland? The media here in freedomland is totally ignoring it.
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 15:16 |
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gonadic io posted:I imagine everybody in NI feels pretty loving abandoned at the very least no doubt but loving lol at the dup in particular
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 15:28 |
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Jose posted:no doubt but loving lol at the dup in particular they got duped
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 15:30 |
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the DUP were promised a battery of solid gold puckle guns to shoot at papists with and then after the 2019 elections it turns out the tories didn't need them anymore. whoops.
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 15:51 |
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they had a strong but relatively difficult hand to play in 2017, but they completely hosed it up, even more so than labour did imo
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 15:54 |
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they wanted to grift and they got it. expensive fuckin bung from their perspective really lmao
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 16:09 |
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time to make a DUPed and REFUKed coallition
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 16:32 |
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Source4Leko posted:Any good sources for what's happening in Northern Ireland? The media here in freedomland is totally ignoring it. 1. Last June there was a huge funeral for a well-known IRA member. Several thousand people, including prominent Sinn Fein members, attended in breach of CoVID guidelines. Last week the Director of Public Prosecutions ruled that nobody involved would face charges or fines. Unionists are mad about this and accusing the PSNI of political policing, despite them taking the same kid gloves approach to illegal Unionist gatherings - focusing instead on cracking down on student house parties and BLM protests. The real reason they're acting mad is that the Orange Order marching season starts soon, and they want to be able to justify breaching any restrictions still in place by pointing at Sinn Fein and declaring that if Nationalists can be socially irresponsible then Unionists should have the right to be just as bad. If that sounds stupid it's because it is and NI politics is always a 2-sided race to the bottom. 2. Unionists are also angry that, after years of campaigning for Brexit and a hard border, they ended up getting a hard border Brexit. The DUP are trying to backpedal somewhat as their support among moderate Unionists is dwindling. Meanwhile much of their hardcore base is going revisionist by imagining the whole Brexit idea as a sinister plot by the EU/Ireland/Sinn Fein to annex Northern Ireland. Thus removing NI from the good union and dragging it back into the bad union. 3. A number of high-profile Loyalist paramilitaries have been arrested recently on drug trafficking charges. This has got them rattled and worried that the police might be taking the highly unorthodox action of cracking down on organized crime. Because of all of the above the Loyalist paramilitaries, with tacit support from the DUP, have been encouraging teenagers to gather for the past week to attack the police. To date the riots have been sporadic and small-scale, especially by NI standards, and limited to a small number of deprived loyalist areas.
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 18:34 |
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https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-opinion-pieces-with-polly-toynbee-and-tim-dowling-tickets-148352017879
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 21:01 |
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somebody help out an ignorant american here: do "unionist" and "loyalist" mean the same thing?
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 23:00 |
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Pizza Segregationist posted:somebody help out an ignorant american here: do "unionist" and "loyalist" mean the same thing? uh, sorta? a unionist is anyone who wants to maintain the united kingdom, in the irish context they're quite often also loyalists. i think it is a self descriptive word that the protestant irish unionists use to highlight how they're more british than the british.
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 23:01 |
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I think loyalists are the ultra versions of unionists
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 23:02 |
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Pizza Segregationist posted:somebody help out an ignorant american here: do "unionist" and "loyalist" mean the same thing? Its as Coolcab says, but political parties are more referred to as 'unionists'. While non-political parties, like the UVF/UDA gangs are 'loyalists'.
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 23:05 |
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:Meanwhile much of their hardcore base is going revisionist by imagining the whole Brexit idea as a sinister plot by the EU/Ireland/Sinn Fein to annex Northern Ireland. Thus removing NI from the good union and dragging it back into the bad union. lol
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 23:42 |
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Raskolnikov38 posted:I think loyalists are the ultra versions of unionists The gammon on the street is a loyalist, the gammon in the suit is a Unionist.
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# ? Apr 8, 2021 00:01 |
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Pizza Segregationist posted:somebody help out an ignorant american here: do "unionist" and "loyalist" mean the same thing? Broadly yes, Unionist is the term for people who support the political union between NI and GB. Loyalist describes people prepared to defend that union by any means necessary, even if it means destroying the Union they claim to support.
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:Broadly yes, Unionist is the term for people who support the political union between NI and GB. Loyalist describes people prepared to defend that union by any means necessary, even if it means destroying the Union they claim to support. That makes sense. Hilariously, most of the descendants of NI protestant immigrants to the US have learned to call themselves "Scots-Irish" but have no conception of what that means and just kind of assume they are part Irish and thus must hate the British monarchy, just like the founding fathers. NI protestants keep losing.
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Pizza Segregationist posted:That makes sense. Hilariously, most of the descendants of NI protestant immigrants to the US have learned to call themselves "Scots-Irish" but have no conception of what that means and just kind of assume they are part Irish and thus must hate the British monarchy, just like the founding fathers. NI protestants keep losing. no thats an actual thing They're Presbyterians who all hosed off when they were expected to join the church of england, and suddenly realised the consequences of being unpopular in their stolen home and unprotected by the crown. Important to remember that genocide was the default response of any english monarch to the smallest possible difference in religious opinion, and there's a few hundred years when the monarchy keeps changing religion. The history of Ulster is a long, long dialectic of displacement and violence. Everyone gets a turn. Spangly A has issued a correction as of 08:10 on Apr 8, 2021 |
# ? Apr 8, 2021 08:05 |
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Father O'prah giving a last sermon in the homeland; "And youse get a diaspora, and youse get a diaspora, and youse get a diaspora!"
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# ? Apr 8, 2021 08:16 |
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Yeah the solution to this is definitely more cops. How long before they're trying asbo 2. Lol it explicitly states teens hanging around in streets is antisocial behaviour https://twitter.com/NickTorfaen/status/1380055373516828682?s=19
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# ? Apr 8, 2021 09:32 |
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Whatever happened to ASBO 1s? Never hear about them anymore
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# ? Apr 8, 2021 09:34 |
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Source4Leko posted:Any good sources for what's happening in Northern Ireland? The media here in freedomland is totally ignoring it. I would tell you all about it if I could. I'm living way out in the country, not very far from the border. I can only tell you what I've heard on the radio and it's the usual tit-for-tat nonsense of Arlene's whataboutism. I know as much about what's happening as the rest of you do, sorry. I can tell you the general mood of everyone though. We are hosed. The DUP has spent so much time trying to maintain a status quo that they never thought what would happen if the gravy train stopped and Britain suddenly abandoned them. They have been living in a fantasy world for quite some time. NI cannot survive on it's own and the Republic doesn't want the burden either.
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# ? Apr 8, 2021 10:42 |
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Source4Leko posted:Any good sources for what's happening in Northern Ireland? The media here in freedomland is totally ignoring it. this isn't helpful at all but the replies are very funny imo https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1379926602914656260?s=20 some hihglights https://twitter.com/GloucesterRon/status/1379928859668275200?s=20 https://twitter.com/henrykue/status/1379940992225320962?s=20 Jose has issued a correction as of 10:51 on Apr 8, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/LittlShyningMan/status/1380091548919083008?s=19
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# ? Apr 8, 2021 10:51 |
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https://twitter.com/CatharineHoey/status/1379902810620317696
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# ? Apr 8, 2021 11:14 |
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i hate her. like so many other ghouls in the PLP who are/were complete shitters and forced ahead of the candidates CLPs wanted under blair
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https://twitter.com/JACOBCROSSlNG/status/1379937509887471621?s=20
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https://twitter.com/PaulBennison/status/1379920690879602692
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