HTG

King C with the Big C.

I get all of that. Anyone on any side of politics in Northern Ireland will quickly be able to find reasons to distrust political opponents. But most have set that aside to try and make the GF agreement work and avoid more killing. I'll be shocked if Jim Allister has ever been in favour of the GF agreement - I'm not arsed to go hunting to find out though.

Sir Humphrey: So we trust you to make sure that Sir Kier does nothing incisive or divisive over the next few weeks. Sir Arnold: Avoids anything controversial. Sir Humphrey: Expresses no firm opinion about anything at all. Now, is that quite clear? Bernard: Yes, well, I think that’s probably what he was planning to do anyway.

If you've got mixed views on Bryson you need to give your head a goo wobble. The c**t would never be happier than to see the whole thing kick off again. I don't understand the purpose or function of unionism today but that's my problem - others see it as a good thing. Bryson though is the Joey Barton equivalent of unionists.

To be fair, Braverman would have been right in about that as a policy if it were not for the fact that a Venn diagram would quickly show that the overlap area covering big shark-dug owners, Brexit and far right arseholes was heavily populated.

The substance of what he said had nothing to do with the protocol or Brexit. He zeroed in on the fact that the FM is from Sinn Fein and fired out a list of IRA atrocities as part of his "well done Jim" speech. The mask came off completely as to why unionist politicians like him have been sat with their thumb up their hole for the last 2 years - the GF agreement only works if there's a unionist majority. You'd be forgiven for thinking the electorate knew nothing of the past when they voted. Many of them have moved on whilst Jim and this Bryson punter seethe away to themselves.

Jim Allister is not altogether happy. Arsehole.

Fucked it.

If there is, they're keeping it to themselves.

Aye but he's got his thing to stick with. Absolute horseshit but hey ho.

#Rwandabill - f**k off.

Colour me shocked at Labour's official position on the Rwanda bill. Jedi2 can rest easy now that he knows he's voting Tory wherever he puts his wee pro union X on the ballot paper. A shower of desperado arseholes.

Fucking hell

Reading this, it's very unlikely he'll be barred from running again. Even if he's found guilty on multiple fronts he'll appeal. He'll then have a further appeal option to the Supreme Court which he has pretty much hand-picked. By the time the appeals are heard we'll be miles past the election. In the meantime, he's clearly going to play the victim and plenty will lap it up. https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-investigation-conviction.html

First of dozens hopefully.

We'll need to be independent before that happens.

Absolutely mental and dangerous. https://twitter.com/jonsopel/status/1750478854395691374

Aye but only on Wednesday and Thursday. Monday, Tuesday and Friday you need to be in the frontline or Rees Mogg will have you court-martialled. There's a thought - go into battle at the behest of Jacob Rees Mogg.

They took you up to midnight mass and left you in the lurch So, you dropped a button in the plate and spewed up in the church

He'll have your back

No need, the members of the UK Reform Party will have this covered. They'll be seeping moisture at the prospect.

HoL says GIRFUY. https://news.sky.com/story/blow-for-rishi-sunak-as-rwanda-bill-suffers-first-defeat-in-house-of-lords-13054210

The US is fucked. It's barely a generation since this was parody.

84 year old killed in Grangemouth. Or Grangemouth, Fife to give it its full BBC title

Is it the case that unionist politicians are likely to continue to scupper any devolved govt for as long as there's a SF First Minister on the basis that direct rule is much more preferable? Or are they likely to take their seats if the border conundrum can be resolved - acknowledging that the border was and remains the single most complex impact of Brexit?