PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

but her epic clapbacks tho

BREAKING: two senior EU sources say the main stumbling block to a deal has been removed with the DUP accepting the latest proposals on consent... Optimism a deal can now be done...

— Tony Connelly (@tconnellyRTE) October 16, 2019

scoop!

can you move stumbling blocks with bales of cash?

Look I don't want to be a misogynist but Jess is dregs

why u hate women smdh

I'm saving all my misogynistic contempt for when her zany sitcom starts on the bbc.

Somebody called Tom McTague (no, seriously) contradicting Tony Connelly's tweet.

Tom McTague wrote betting the house, which is great, but he is a total prick about/to Irish people.

aye good book that, typical English cunt tho!

irish name, english attitude!

He is plainly not of good Irish peasant stock like yer man, O'Neill.

his ancestors couldn't get on a boat to New York because they were of peasant stock likely to be tossed over the side long before the approach to Ellis Island.

"...actually, I think you'll find that dying of diphtheria in Cattle Class is the preferred choice of us sturdy peasant yeomen, contrary to what the sneering toffs at the so-called Captain's Table might have you believe" [is heaved into the mid-Atlantic]

lol I just saw this severely terrible thread from this morning

While the default position of many (most?) is to mock or disdain the DUP, it’s worth trying to understand their perspective, the challenges they now face—and why any grown up should hope that whatever is agreed no side in Northern Ireland feels humiliated. Thread 1/15

— Tom McTague (@TomMcTague) October 16, 2019

Like if you’re wringing your hands over the importance of the GFA to the DUP when they opposed it then, now, and in the future then your analysis might be a bit shaky, idk

Imagine your coverage being good enough to shift the pound, though

Currency markets seem to think @tconnellyRTE is twice as credible as @DUPleader. Pound jumped 0.8% following Connelly's tweet, but only dropped 0.4% after Foster's denial.https://t.co/rNAoR0N3bThttps://t.co/SNVSLZGMwc pic.twitter.com/HRloMmg7x1

— Peter Thal Larsen (@peter_tl) October 16, 2019

I just found out that the DUP always refer to the GFA as the Belfast Agreement, I'm trying not to believe that it's because Good Friday sounds a bit Catholic.

It 100% is.

Isn't Good Friday a bigger deal for Protestants than it is for Catholics?

I'm asking because Good Friday is a statutory holiday in Canada everywhere except in ex-Catholic Quebec, which privileges Easter Monday.

Is it just because it has the word Good in? Even though the "good" in Good Friday is a euphemism for Actually Pretty Bad Thanks.

Got to have different names for everything though, use the names other people use to mean only two thirds of the thing, etc.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHAG4msX4AE9ISb?format=jpg&name=medium
lol

Good Friday was, until very recently, one of the two days in the whole year when pubs would close in Ireland - the other being Christmas Day.

According to Wikipedia, Good Friday is a bank rather than a public holiday in Ireland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland

I'm not sure I grasp the distinction, though. Bank holidays are exotic to me.

Closing pubs is indefensible, no matter the excuse given.

otm

Something something Lent imo - Easter Monday is a bank holiday. Idk how Protestants see Easter but it is the most important feast in Catholicism & we also have Lent leading up to it as well.

Wikipedia says Easter Monday is a public holiday. Once again, I don't get how that differs from a bank holiday but whatevs.

Depends on the Church but I'm sure the DUP are all of joyless grim-faced Presbyterian or worse variety.

Good Friday is a bank holiday in NI (and the whole of the UK) but not in Ireland.

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/bank-holidays

It’s not a holiday at all in Ireland.

There are 9 public holidays in Ireland each year. Public holidays may commemorate a special day or other event, for example, St Patrick's Day (17 March) or Christmas Day (25 December). On a public holiday, sometimes called a bank holiday, most businesses and schools close. Other services, for example, public transport still operate but often with restricted schedules. Public holidays are:

New Year's Day (1 January)
St. Patrick's Day (17 March)
Easter Monday
First Monday in May, June, August
Last Monday in October
Christmas Day (25 December)
St. Stephen's Day (26 December)
Good Friday is not a public holiday. While some schools and businesses close on that day, you have no automatic entitlement to time off work on that day.

"the DUP are all of joyless grim-faced Presbyterian or worse variety"

the worse variety ones idea of progressive is making their kids kneel on hard rice grains on a stone cellar floor rather than broken glass.

Gotcha. So this confirms my suspicion that Good Friday matters to Protestants more.

(xp)

Then why do they call it the Belfast Agreement? Can’t be because Good Friday is one of the holiest days of the Catholic Church or anything...

Haha Mark Francois having an absolute shocker on Brexflix right now. pic.twitter.com/3WJ4wL8Hhn

— Sooz Halloween Kempner (@SoozUK) October 16, 2019

lmao, some lungs on that fella

Then why do they call it the Belfast Agreement?

Is Fintan O'Toole's use of the term loaded? Genuinely curious:

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-the-belfast-agreement-is-flawed-but-not-in-the-way-brexiteers-think-1.3400311

the only one that matters is shrove tuesday aka pancake day

martinmas is also good foodwise mind you

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-belfast-agreement
https://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item105778.html

looks as though the belfast agreement was its original nickname

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-50057673

The government said name suggestions should "embrace the history and culture of Wellingborough".

The names will be narrowed down to a shortlist of potential options, with a panel of local representatives deciding on the final winner.

The name must then be formally agreed by The Queen, the Prisons Minister Lucy Frazer and Justice Secretary Robert Buckland.

The G4S Shithole Dungeon of Interminable Suffering and Doom? I've never really thought about naming a prison before, might pass on this one.

Chokey McChokeface

_Then why do they call it the Belfast Agreement?_


Is Fintan O'Toole's use of the term loaded? Genuinely curious:

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-the-belfast-agreement-is-flawed-but-not-in-the-way-brexiteers-think-1.3400311🕸

my earliest Good Friday memory is hearing my dad saying "well we've cooked the meat now" but he pronounced it coooked, but of course it's a strong catholic thing, unless I'm misunderstanding the argument here!

I'm no expert but it seems as though Good Friday is indeed more significant to Catholics than it is to Anglicans overall, but it's a bank holiday only on Anglican territory (so to speak), which strikes me as odd.

I hope you are not referring to Protestants in Scotland and NI as belonging to Anglican territory.

I think there's been a few wars over that.

The kirk is v serious business

Anything that isn't Eastern Orthodoxy is a schismatic heresy anyway so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

RIP Adonis

EXC: full Labour longlist for Vauxhall: Ibrahim Dogus, Katy Clark, Lucy Caldicott (Lambeth councillor), Maurice Macleod (Wandswoth councillor), Florence Eshalomi, Stephen Beer (former CLP chair) Claire Holland (deputy leader of Lambeth Council)

— Patrick Maguire (@patrickkmaguire) October 16, 2019

Government scraps online 'porn block' plans after law hits kinks https://t.co/R17unx623h

— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 16, 2019

b-b-but what about the will of the people