from what i could tell there was certainly a lot a lot of public money wasted and it did indeed look like there may well have been some corrupt behavior involved though how sure we are that it was corruption and not just incompetence i don't know what i do know is that shin fein demanded that arlene foster stand down she did not and so they collapsed the assembly uh that was incredibly childish you know um that the same would be the case here only there might be a difference in the blame game now i don't know the strength of feeling on the ground when stormont was originally collapsed you know perhaps people from northern ireland could let me know but i can imagine that republicans would have been potentially considering sinn fein to be within their rights to have collapsed the assembly even though i would think that's ridiculous it's like well what's the justification well they're behaving corruptly welcome to politics hello and unionists would have thought it inappropriate you know but the but the result of the mothballed assembly was that northern ireland didn't really have much of a voice during those crucial years of brexit taking form there weren't political decisions being made on the ground and it was only just reconvened in time for the pandemic you know going back into mothballs now while not only not just brexit but the pandemic is still biting hard and for what you know because the dup are looking silly for back in a hard brexit and then having that hard brexit bite them on the ass when the pandemic rages out of control even by the standards of the uk because there are no politicians to adapt policies to changing conditions or even many unionists in northern ireland going to support the dup's temper tantrum you know over over the brexit that will also be causing more problems and the brexit that they acted as midwife to deliver and there's no suggestion that next may's elections wouldn't go ahead just because one party in serious decline was having a hissy fit the bottom line is that the eu have the law and international opinion on their side over this they have no need to change a single line if they don't want to in addition the dup have no credible plan to replace it i think their most serious suggestion was to have ireland leave the eu and rejoin the uk i mean i'm not nostradamus or anything but i think i could safely bet my left bollock that this will not be occurring in northern ireland brexit is about as popular as a bacon sandwich at a bar mitzvah they didn't even vote in favor of it in NUMBER_TOKEN. the dup are very much seen as enabling it you know they campaigned for it they propped up theresa may's government when she pissed away a majority in NUMBER_TOKEN. they also trusted boris johnson when he said that he wouldn't put a customs border up the irish sea when everyone on their aunty knew that this was exactly what he intended to do little tip when dealing with boris johnson every day is opposite day for him if he says he won't do something he's going to do it
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