Zoran posted:

Guys, I have hope

Praseodymi posted:

Is there a map I can view for these local poll results or something?

Endorph posted:

may called this election to get a stronger majority for the tories. any result that isn't a stronger majority for the tories is her getting violently owned.

Baron Corbyn posted:

https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/872929091011399680

Los Ingobernables de Bretaña

Gort posted:

If the entire country was Newcastle and Sunderland it'd probably be almost tolerable

Mr. Flunchy posted:

hahahahahahahaaaaahhhhahahahahaha

kustomkarkommando posted:

13% turnout increase in Foyle in an SDLP v SF battle

baka kaba posted:

How's Limmy taking all this?

a pipe smoking dog posted:

Isn't the unionists entire platform "we will take money from London and give it to other unionists".

Wistful of Dollars posted:

Armando is going to be in heaven today.

ronya posted:

I never thought it'd be the DUP saving us from hard Brexit.

Murderion posted:

... this is even more petty and insane than I expected.

I... what? The country could be in loving constitutional crisis and this is their play.

big scary monsters posted:

It probably should be called Team UK tbh. GB doesn't just exclude Norn Iron but also athletes from the other islands.

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/MkBlyth/status/...D132%23lastpost

smug n stuff posted:

Apologies if it's been asked and answered before, but I'm a dumb american: If I live in NI and want to vote for "the good guys," who would that generally be? The SDLP? SF?

TheRat posted:

Forgive my ignorance, but why are they not pummelled to death doing this? Are they THAT protected by oval office police who dont mind crying schoolgirls?

Angepain posted:

as someone who was a student in Glasgow and hence quite enjoyed the prospect of sometimes sleeping during the early mornings I would like to lodge an objection

e: those loving flutes pierce into your brain and can be heard for great ridiculous distances

Random Integer posted:

Jesus Christ no they are not fine and it is nothing like an Independence Day march.

The Orange Order are an explicitly anti-Catholic, Protestant Supremacist organisation.

edit: having pissed up Orangemen threatening to bottle you because you're 'papist scum', exactly like an Independence Day march.

TheRat posted:

My political activist left wing mum brought me up to think that orange marches were cuntery of the highest order. From what I've seen of them I don't buy for a second that they just want to follow tradition.

Murderion posted:

Back when I was in halls of residence at Glasgow Uni, there was an Orange march going past in the street and and all the English students were in the kitchen saying how it was funny they were all dressed up like smarties and how the kids all looked so cute.

Burst their bubble a bit when I told them that they'd be horribly beaten if they tried to cross the march.

hakimashou posted:

Everyone in northern ireland is crazy.

ThomasPaine posted:

Sure thing back in the 70s but I would genuinely be surprised if it reignited violently. People are still passionate but according to all the evidence (and I have discussed this with people in NI) the people willing to actually revert to armed struggle are limited to a double digit number of bitter old dudes in pubs.

Mister Adequate posted:

Also, full disclosure, family of mine was killed in the Shankill Road Bombing of 1993, :

Tsaedje posted:

I think the BBC style guide is to call it "Derry/Londonderry", but then they still call Myanmar Burma, so I dunno

Mister Adequate posted:

Was it the Greysteel Massacre? A goddamn travesty just as much as the Shankill Bombing. Either way, condolences to your mate, and the need to make sure the generation beneath ours never truly comprehends what it was like is why we have to do whatever possible to keep things stable.

kustomkarkommando posted:

Guys who joined up in their 20s in the early 80s are pushing into their 50s so still a decade or so, but there is a younger generation of cunts who've been taken under their wing

They pass the time shooting drug dealers in the knees and extorting money from teenage drug addicts and ordering their parents to bring them to dark alleys to get crippled

Real nice guys

Tsaedje posted:

Blair's government did a lot of good, but it came at the price of their souls, and a Labour party with no soul quickly becomes disaffected.

Jose posted:

i'd much rather have a muffin than a crumpet

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

quote:

A convoy of large lorries with English number plates seen heading towards Dungannon at 6am this morning has added fuel to the rumours that, after this week’s election outcome, the British supreme legislative body is to up roots from London and relocate in the sleepy Dungannon suburb of Moygashel. The potential new minority government, with a heavy reliance on the co-operation of the DUP, will reportedly direct operations from the village famed for its linen industry and flute band.

Moygashel Lord Mayor Billy ‘The Slayer’ McCrystal is excited about the prospect of the world’s cameras focused on the village which once boasted six different offensive graffiti messages at the same time:

“Deadly so it is. Teresa May will be made very welcome and I’ll give her a tour of the place. No one has failed to be impressed at the noises and laughs in the Dungannon Independent Methodist Church when the Loyal Sons of Ulster are practising, especially at this time of the year. And the rest of the politicians needn’t worry about them depraved things they do in private…we cater for all that too.”

Although Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has not ruled out opposing the new venue, he has asked that he is located in Coalisland until the next General Election, as he has a few ‘friends’ from there he can call on.

In a bid to create a new 21st century persona, the GAA have already moved on this issue and have asked May to throw the ball in at the start of the upcoming Tyrone/Donegal game, warning players not to mill her before she gets off the pitch.

dispatch_async posted:

https://twitter.com/Peston/status/873504424215416837

Oh boy

Rakosi posted:

This is a scary sentence.

forkboy84 posted:

For Norn Iron goons, something I've always wanted to know. Why exactly are the nationalists parties much more strongly associated with left wing politics & the unionists all right wing? Surely there's loads of working class unionists who would vote for a party that looked after their rights while also being for remaining in the UK? And with Fianna Fail & Fine Gael you've obviously got nearby examples of right wing Irish nationalist parties. So how has it ended up as it has?

forkboy84 posted:

It's kind of bad how little most of us know about Northern Irish politics & recent history really. Although I could probably say the same about Wales.

crispix posted:

Can you even imagine how poo poo you'd have to be to gently caress up so spectacularly at politics that you end up having to lick big, fat, hairy orangemen's arses to try to cling onto power

Skinty McEdger posted:

Take it with a pinch of salt as the same hacks also seem to think that the DUP will demand the hardest of hard Brexits.

TinTower posted:

So the whole "DUP supported a literal terrorist genocide" is even more than I thought:

quote:

“If a police barracks is burned or if the barracks already occupied is not suitable, then the best house in the locality is to be commandeered, the occupants thrown into the gutter. Let them die there – the more the merrier.Should the order (“Hands Up”) not be immediately obeyed, shoot and shoot with effect. If the persons approaching (a patrol) carry their hands in their pockets, or are in any way suspicious-looking, shoot them down. You may make mistakes occasionally and innocent persons may be shot, but that cannot be helped, and you are bound to get the right parties some time. The more you shoot, the better I will like you, and I assure you no policeman will get into trouble for shooting any man.”

Lt. Col. Smyth, June 1920

JOHNSON COCKSLAP posted:

cool justifying terrorism, forums user happy hippy.