The DUP thinks that it is still in a confidence and supply arrangement. But this Government has a majority of 80. It is questionable exactly what constitutes membership of the ERG, but no more than 50 MPs, and perhaps as few as 40, could in any way be so described. The seven of them in the Cabinet have no intention of resigning for anything. All in all, an absolute maximum of 60 votes against whatever the Government proposed in relation to the Northern Ireland Protocol, but more like 50, one in 13 members of the House of Commons. If that. A rebellion of, at most, around one in seven Conservatives. Who cares?
For its annual £200,000 of public money, all paid into one account, what research does the European Research Group produce? Three years after Brexit, research into what? As for the Democratic Unionist Party, it would lose its deposit in any seat in Great Britain, and it would struggle to get onto the ballot in most of them, but far from having decommissioned any weapons, Ulster Resistance has never even declared a ceasefire. Is that what this is really all about? Yes. Yes, it is. Tell me again about the bullet dodged at the last two General Elections.
And the guy who was in charge of the Ulster Resistance arsenal his funeral was attended Dame Arlene Foster and Emma Little Pengelly whose father was one of three men who set up the arms deal in a Paris Hotel room with a South African Diplomat and a American Arms dealer.
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DeleteIt’s hard to believe superprod Kate Hoey is the same woman who was once arrested for protesting against internment without trial in London.
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