Twelfth gathering in Lisburn told UK Government must deliver on border promises https://www.byteseu.com/1188042/ #Brexit #DUP #EmmaLittlePengelly #GreatBritain #OrangeOrder #Politics #TheTwelfth #UKGovernment #UnitedKingdom

https://www.europesays.com/2239919/ Twelfth gathering in Lisburn told UK Government must deliver on border promises #brexit #dup #EmmaLittlePengelly #GreatBritain #OrangeOrder #Politics #TheTwelfth #UkGovernment #UnitedKingdom

Is this just another ‘hate crime’ that the PSNI may or may not investigate eventually? Literally the second bonfire with calls to murder or burn people alive. This isn’t ‘culture’ or ‘tradition’ or ‘controversial art’. This is naked unabashed sectarianism and racism and can never be seen as anything else. That the #DUP and #TUV [Unionist and Loyalist] leaders are supporting those who go to court to prevent such hate being removed says everything about Loyalism, and those who wish to remain as part of the UK. Will the PM #Starmer, a former human rights lawyer express even the slightest discomfort about this? Or is he more comfortable with designating non-violent protest as ‘terrorism’.

Twelfth, Northern Ireland: Kneecap poster with sectarian slogans attached to Eleventh Night bonfire in Co Tyrone | BelfastTelegraph.co.uk https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/kneecap-poster-with-sectarian-slogans-attached-to-eleventh-night-bonfire-in-co-tyrone/a1481175871.html

So the court has bailed out of responsibility to make a decision.
The PSNI have bailed out of responsibility to protect those wanting to make the bonfire safe.
If the sub station burns down, and/or people get asbestosis and lung cancer that’s fine, ‘cos Loyalists lit this poisonous bonfire. And , the #DUP and #TUV think this is a positive thing for Unionists and Loyalists.
How much has this farce cost the taxpayers of NI already?
How much more will in cost in repairs should the substation be damaged, or should someone die in either hospital because the power is out?
How much will it cost in healthcare for those who develop living cancer?
How much will it cost in Fire Brigade attendance?
And this one is gloating along with his associates in the #DUP and #TUV
A shameful abdication of their responsibility to their entire community and to local business.
I have no faith in the court ruling against future bonfires what are dangerous, as this is at least the third time in recent years they have adjourned a decision, or ruled against controlling it to protect peoples lives.
Of one thing you can be sure - if anyone is injured at this, their family will be suing the Council for not protecting them, and they’ll probably win.
#NIPolitics #Think32 #UI

So the #DUP would prefer to keep a bonfire with an asbestos hazard and the liklihood of it damaging the electricity supply for the two major hospitals, than work to relocate it or keep people safe from a life-limiting cancer?
Good to know the #DUP look after the community so well.
Good luck to the PSNI and Belfast City Council in finding a contractor who will manage this at such short notice.
I would not be in the least surprised if it ‘accidentally’ went up in flames tonight.
#NIPolitics
Belfast councillors vote to remove controversial bonfire | BelfastTelegraph.co.uk https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/belfast-councillors-vote-to-remove-controversial-bonfire/a12704003.html

The irony of all this being that William of Orange was a Dutchman with lots of Catholic relatives and links. So, technically an immigrant as well as being connected to a religion the Loyalists absolutely despise.
Surely the British government should prosecute these organisations as promoting terrorism, and for hate crimes.
They have proscribed at least one other non-violent organisation as terrorist, for a lot less.
#Sectarianism #HateCrime #Racism #DUP ¢TUV #NIPolitics #Labour #Starmer #YvetteCooper
Moygashel bonfire: Effigy of refugees in small boat 'deplorable', Sinn Féin says - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4ygekzpv7o

Our focus is on making Northern Ireland work – Robinson https://www.byteseu.com/1160857/ #DemocraticUnionistParty #DUP #FivePointPlan #Ireland #NorthernIreland

https://www.europesays.com/2190242/ United Ireland poll speculation a distraction, says Peter Robinson – The Irish News #dup #ireland #IrishUnirt #NorthernIreland #PeterRobinson #RepublicOfIreland #Ulster

The #DUP hold the Education portfolio. This year their minister Paul Givan MLA denied several schools who applied for Integrated status - which would allow mixed religion education. The same minister also ensured that grants for deprived areas were tailored in such a way that well-to-do schools in well-to-do areas were eligible and got them.
The #DUP also hold the Communities portfolio. Gordon Lyons MLA announced that immigrants had been moved to Larne Community Centre on FB, and the centre was attacked very shortly afterwards.
Meanwhile their MPs Carla Lockhart, Gavin Robinson and Sammy Wilson have validated the attacks by demonising immigrant workers, and claiming the #PSNI are over-reacting.
The loyalist blogger continues to support these vandalisms, and Robinson/Yaxley-Lennon streams much of it on his X profile.
#TUV MP Jim Allister hasn’t been off the airwaves since the start of it, validating racism, sectarianism and bigotry of the worst kind. #NIPolitics
‘Where are the foreigners’: does a facile explanation lie behind Ballymena’s outbreak of hate? | Northern Ireland | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/14/facile-explanation-for-ballymena-outbreak-of-hostility-northern-ireland-racism

I won't lie, dear reader, I laughed like a drain. The DUP's efforts to claim a fascist, racist as one of 'theirs' fails.

On the other hand, the money to pay for the research appears to have come out of government coffers. If that is the case then it is a gross misuse of public money.

https://archive.ph/DCgO6

‘All the good looking ones were put at the front’ What the delightful #DUP MLA, sexist, misogynist POS Minister said at a conference. #NIPolitics
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/stormont-minister-apologises-after-outrage-over-good-looks-comment-at-women-empowerment-event/a2022543214.html

[15:12] Jeffrey Donaldson case delayed as wife ‘unfit to stand trial’

The trial of former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson and his wife Eleanor Donaldson on charges relating to alleged historical sex offences is to be delayed.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/jeffrey-donaldson-case-delayed-as-wife-unfit-to-stand-trial/a2116223313.html

#DUP #JeffreyDonaldson #EleanorDonaldson

Benn: Northern Ireland economy not being crippled by post-Brexit arrangements https://www.byteseu.com/799417/ #DUP #Europe #European #EuropeanUnion #Government #Japan #mps #NorthernIreland #RichardWheeler #Scotland #UKGovernment

[15:39] ‘They can't defend themselves, let alone anybody else’ – DUP leader says Ireland needs to boost ‘pitiful’ defence spending

Ireland needs to boost its "pitiful" level of defence spending, DUP leader Gavin Robinson has said.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/they-cant-defend-themselves-let-alone-anybody-else-dup-leader-says-ireland-needs-to-boost-pitiful-defence-spending/a284305585.html

#Ireland #DUP #GavinRobinson

Je m'inscris au #camp d'été des #DPU ... la charte est inspirante je trouve alors je partage, pour d'autres organisateur-ices : https://dansesdelapaixuniverselle.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Charte-vie-du-camp-2025-Fr-OK.pdf

#DUP #Meeting #SummerMeeting #Universités d'été etc. #OrganisationCollective #IntelligenceCollective #mercredicollectif toujours (cf. les attentions concernant les enfants, presque toujours & partout bienvenu-es chez nous soufi-es...)

#Paix #Chant #Spiritualité et #Danse surtout bien sûr einh

The #DUP doing their usual hate and misrepresentation. I expected slightly better from Gavin Robinson MP than this; but it’s typical of Sammy Wilson MP, who stood outside Westminster with Ian Paisely Jnr and Paul Girvan, holding a Vote Trump banner before Biden won the election. Neither Girvan or Paisley succeeded in retaining their seats, and Sammy only barely held his in the most recent UK GE. They really need to get their own house in order, before bothering about the Irish Government. #NIPolitics #UKPolitics #USPolitics #MastoDaoine
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/dup-claims-new-trump-era-spreading-panic-within-irish-government/a38622456.html

Preventing children from mixing with each other is the last hope for those whose diminishing grip on power depends on keeping communities segregated and in fear of each other.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c390914zkd9o?at_format=link&at_bbc_team=editorial

The DUP had the Palestine mural outside the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast painted over. This is what replaced it.

First Minister Michelle O'Neill has arrived at the Cenotaph at Belfast city hall for the official Remembrance Ceremony.

I have to say, I think that she is doing the right thing here. Somebody has to try to reach across the sectarian divide and it sure as hell ain't going to be the DUP.