DUP & Brexit

[Floki]

[QUOTE=Barney Rubble;2225329]You have me intrigued Floki, did I spell John Bercow's name wrong ?[/QUOTE



^^^^ It would have looked like this above ^^^^

You have me intrigued Floki, did I spell John Bercow's name wrong ?

When it should have looked like this.
That was the only issue.

Many people keep doing this and so I have to edit a few posts to fix it.

[Barney Rubble]

[QUOTE=Floki;2225466]

You have me intrigued Floki, did I spell John Bercow's name wrong ?[/QUOTE



^^^^ It would have looked like this above ^^^^





When it should have looked like this.
That was the only issue.

Many people keep doing this and so I have to edit a few posts to fix it.

I'm even more confused now Floki, that wasn't the post you edited .

Anyway I slept ok last night so it mustn't have bothered me that much !

[Barney Rubble]

Bookies fav is Lindsey Hoyle but Harman might be a good outside bet, neither of them have the presence of Bercow, I’d be amazed if some bojo yes man didn’t make an appearance in the race at some stage

Denis Skinner in his prime would have been a fantastic speaker, it would be compulsive viewing.

[Floki]

[QUOTE=Barney Rubble;2225470]

I'm even more confused now Floki, that wasn't the post you edited .

Anyway I slept ok last night so it mustn't have bothered me that much !

No it wasn't, but was an example of what I did to fix the post.
I had to fix the [quote] url link so that the quote posted looked like it was quote correctly.

[jackdaniels99]

Denis Skinner in his prime would have been a fantastic speaker, it would be compulsive viewing.

Agreed, a fantastic orator

[SteveB]

BoJo announces that if he loses a key vote to enable him to set a 3-day timetable to leave the EU by the end of the month, he would call an election. He loses the vote; he doesn't call an election.

It continues.

[joggon]

DUP MPs privately admit they should have backed Theresa May

Analysis from CNN's Luke McGee

https://edition.cnn.com/uk/live-news...5ca080a5df254b


In what is turning into one of the strangest days in the short history of Brexit, some interesting conversations are taking place around Westminster.
Cast your mind back to 2017: The Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party, you'll recall, agreed to support Theresa May's minority government in exchange for an extra £1bn ($1.3bn) dollars for Northern Ireland.
They then didn't support Theresa May when she came back from Brussels late last year with a Brexit deal.
Why? Because of something called the backstop, which sought to avoid the need for either a border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland or between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. The DUP's concern was that the backstop tied Northern Ireland to the EU indefinitely and left it with no say over its future.
Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster. BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images
Hardline Conservative Brexiteers in London supported the DUP position at the time, saying that they would not sell out the Union. However, these largely English Conservatives had another issue with the backstop, in that it tied the UK so close to Europe that it meant May's deal was Brexit in name only (Brino, as they call it).
Fast forward to last week and Johnson has struck a new deal with the EU. His deal, however, effectively creates a special status for Northern Ireland, meaning that it will in some respects be closer to the UK than mainland Britain. It also creates an effective border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.
As the debate in the chamber draws nearer to its close, DUP MPs have been arguing with Conservative Brexiteers who they believe have thrown them under the bus for supporting Johnson.
When John Redwood, an arch Conservative Brexiteer who voted against May but is backing Johnson, said that he was concerned about Northern Ireland, a DUP MP shouted in response "well what are you going to do about it."
Privately, some DUP MPs have been telling more liberal Conservatives that they were wrong to defy May. In the words of one Conservative MP, referring to a conversation they'd had with a DUP colleague: "He should have voted for May’s deal and not trusted the English nationalists. I warned him and this morning he had the good grace to thank me and agree that he should have listened to me."
Ouch.

[Barney Rubble]

Good enough for them DUP pricks !

[joggon]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHkr236X...g&name=900x900

[joggon]