Power-Sharing Talks Collapse At Stormont

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-politics-43064009

Someone needs to go over to Belfast and knock some heads together......Mo Mowlem would have done it.

Perhaps we should ask for our money back....you know, that £10B that May bribed them with last year ?

[ichkeria]

Yes a friend of mine was actually in those meetings mikey!
And she'd loll in her chair with her feet on the table.
I don't doubt she'd be more effective than the chinless wonder currently in post.
There are thorny issues though. Someone needs to take Michelle O by the short and curlies too, if you'll pardon the expression. I love the idea of JC going over there and trying it on (so to speak) In fact I'd probably pay good money to be a fly on the wall

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Jackdaw just reminded me of the time the police had 56 warrants out for the same man for driving offences until someone discovered the 'name' they had for this miscreant was actually the Polish words for Driving Licence. oops!

[Kromovaracun]

How pathetic.

[Old_Geezer]

"Only about 20% of the Welsh population can speak Welsh but we just get on with our lives anyway." True, but you do so accepting inefficient waste of time and resource pandering to a minority who wish to impose ridiculous demands on the majority. The percentage who still haven't joined modern Britain and can't speak English must be vanishingly small. With that sort of thing it's best to nip it in the bud and not give the inch to start with.

[mikey4444]

OG....sorry, I can't agree. If we don't make an effort to nourish and protect our minority languages, they will disappear.

The reason that the DUP won't support the language has everything to do with the simple fact that the language is more likely to be spoken by Catholics....its as simple as that....pure, unadulterated, old-fashioned prejudice, by the majority population.

Thanks God they are not shooting and killing each other any more over there, but some things in NI never change.

[Hazi-Hammenuhoth]

The £ 10bn is for NI infrastructure, nothing to do with power-sharing. Mo Mowlam was good, but it was actually Tony Blair you can thank for the Good Friday Agreement. The most successful Labour PM ever. Perhaps he can leave off attempting to wreck Brexit and bang some heads together over in Belfast. Funny how Corbyn attacks Blair over foreign policy when Blair orchestrated the Good Friday Agreement and did more for peace in Northern Ireland than most. Corbyn, on the other hand, is unable even to comment on the NI peace profess due to his personally and unapologetically inviting convicted IRA terrorists to the House of Commons.

[ichkeria]

I think that is slightly unfair mikey.
I am all for expanding the use of and awareness of Irish in N Ireland but the Irish Language Act has raised issues for lots of people not just anti-Catholic bigots. At least in Wales you hear people speaking Welsh, but in N Ireland next to no one speaks the language (and not all that many in the south either). This issue, to repeat myself again, should not be being debated by politicians: it carries too much baggage with it. For example: the bilingual signage issue: I thing that is a ridiculous idea, and I am the last person on earth who would want to ban signs in irish. But if am a member of the DUP and I say that no one will believe me. And if I am an ex-IRA man and I want an Irish language commissioner installed there is going to be huge suspicions at MY motives too.

[Old_Geezer]

If they disappear then they disappear. No big deal.