I don't blame you for not voting !

There should be a Gerry Adams celebration day-the day someone puts a bullet in his head.

The DUP has a long history of links with the UVF (classed as a terrorist organisation by the UK), the UDA and Ulster Resistance. Just last year a DUP councillor posted a mocked up picture of the UVF's flag outside 10 Downing Street in celebration of the DUP's grubby deal with TM following the GE.

They are just as much "terrorist" or "terrorist sympathisers" as Sinn Fein, who are officially the political arm of the Republican Movement, the IRA being the military arm. The DUP and other unionist parties share a similar relationship with the UVF etc, with plenty of overlap historically in membership.

It just seems that people in England tend to see the DUP as more acceptable as they are unionists. It's important not to forget that loyalists murdered people and set off bombs in much the same way as the IRA did, but they didn't do it in England so people tend to, rightly or wrongly, view the IRA as the greater evil.

Gerry Adams' biggest error politically was denying his membership in the IRA/PIRA. He was in the room when the decision was made to establish the PIRA and is on record as having mentioned his membership many years ago. I think if he'd been more honest he would have stood a better chance of achieving more of his political ambitions, not least being in with a chance of become President of Ireland. Ian Paisley, while not a member, actively encouraged people to join the UVF and UDA, and was instrumental in the acts of violence in 1969 against civil rights campaigners that lead to the start of the "Troubles". He was also instrumental in the Unionist Strikes that ended the ceasefire in the 70s and blocked every attempt at bring the IRA to the table and to create a power sharing executive in NI right up until the GFA and for some time afterwards. Gerry Adams at least had been attempting to negotiate a peace since the late 80s. I think it's unfair to dismiss Gerry Adams simply as a terrorist without acknowledging his role in creating peace and without recognising the acts of the Unionists at the time.

TM has made a grave error in setting up the grubby deal with the DUP and her lack of apparent understanding of the border issue RE Brexit. The history of Brits meddling in Ireland is not a happy one and has never ended well, always ending with violence. Maastricht and membership of the EU had an important role in enabling the peace process as the IRA would probably never have agreed to a ceasefire with the continued presence of borders which would inevitably have been controlled by unionists as nationalists would refuse to take part in such controls. A return to any kind of border will be difficult, and you can bet Gerry Adams will be pulling the strings even in his retirement to whip up the nationalist community to rail against anything that they would view as a backward step in terms of Irish unification.

Comments from people like Boris comparing the Irish border with London Boroughs and US/Canada is idiotic and plays into the hands of people on both sides who still are unhappy with the peace process.

The DUP has a long history of links with the UVF (classed as a terrorist organisation by the UK), the UDA and Ulster Resistance. Just last year a DUP councillor posted a mocked up picture of the UVF's flag outside 10 Downing Street in celebration of the DUP's grubby deal with TM following the GE.

They are just as much "terrorist" or "terrorist sympathisers" as Sinn Fein, who are officially the political arm of the Republican Movement, the IRA being the military arm. The DUP and other unionist parties share a similar relationship with the UVF etc, with plenty of overlap historically in membership.

It just seems that people in England tend to see the DUP as more acceptable as they are unionists. It's important not to forget that loyalists murdered people and set off bombs in much the same way as the IRA did, but they didn't do it in England so people tend to, rightly or wrongly, view the IRA as the greater evil.

Gerry Adams' biggest error politically was denying his membership in the IRA/PIRA. He was in the room when the decision was made to establish the PIRA and is on record as having mentioned his membership many years ago. I think if he'd been more honest he would have stood a better chance of achieving more of his political ambitions, not least being in with a chance of become President of Ireland. Ian Paisley, while not a member, actively encouraged people to join the UVF and UDA, and was instrumental in the acts of violence in 1969 against civil rights campaigners that lead to the start of the "Troubles". He was also instrumental in the Unionist Strikes that ended the ceasefire in the 70s and blocked every attempt at bring the IRA to the table and to create a power sharing executive in NI right up until the GFA and for some time afterwards. Gerry Adams at least had been attempting to negotiate a peace since the late 80s. I think it's unfair to dismiss Gerry Adams simply as a terrorist without acknowledging his role in creating peace and without recognising the acts of the Unionists at the time.

TM has made a grave error in setting up the grubby deal with the DUP and her lack of apparent understanding of the border issue RE Brexit. The history of Brits meddling in Ireland is not a happy one and has never ended well, always ending with violence. Maastricht and membership of the EU had an important role in enabling the peace process as the IRA would probably never have agreed to a ceasefire with the continued presence of borders which would inevitably have been controlled by unionists as nationalists would refuse to take part in such controls. A return to any kind of border will be difficult, and you can bet Gerry Adams will be pulling the strings even in his retirement to whip up the nationalist community to rail against anything that they would view as a backward step in terms of Irish unification.

Comments from people like Boris comparing the Irish border with London Boroughs and US/Canada is idiotic and plays into the hands of people on both sides who still are unhappy with the peace process.

Indeed, and lets not forget it was the loyalists/unionists that caused the biggest single loss of life in dublin in 1974 with the dublin and monaghan bombings, killing 34, mainly young women and an unborn child !