DUP Threatens The British Government With "Street Politics" Over Protocol?

The DUP MP Ian Paisley clashed with the Northern Ireland Secretary of State Brandon Lewis during a committee meeting where he it seems threatened "street politics" if the British government didn't scrap the Protocol. Paisley and the DUP campaigned for Brexit and still support it, but want the Northern Ireland Protocol, which is part of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement removed.
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[@aland155]

Street Politics is the DUP's shorthand for urban terrorism. This isn't the first time they've threatened terror, and as promoters of terrorism they should be severely restricted and/or jailed.

[@michaelc3051]

Absolutely. Unleash the loyalist mob to cause havoc and endanger life.

[@Minime163]

Just normal service from the DUP scandulas how they get away with it.

[@julianshepherd2038]

@@Minime163 they get away with it because they are the political wing of the mob. F knows why anyone south of the border would want the Orange Mob as citizens.

[@Neil070]

Unionists have form for this. The reason for partition and the creation of NI was the threats from Carson's thugs to wreak havoc in GB and the new Irish Free State if Home Rule was imposed on them. How they have the gall to call themselves "loyalists" is beyond me. Certainly not loyal to the Crown or the UK

[@Minime163]

@@Neil070 ordanry English people are as perplexed about them as the Irish.

[@musicman5678]

Scotland would love to have the deal that the North of Ireland has with the EU.

[@robertlock6041]

Give it time, Mr Man... Johnson et al can't hold off Scottish independence for ever...

[@musicman5678]

@@robertlock6041 i know the sooner the better 😀

[@timothysimpkins6229]

UK will break up in fours nations, it won't last forever!

[@johnsometimesoffandsometim8933]

So would Yorkshire.

[@markmac9515]

Scotland would be a completely independent country, not half in and half out.

[@mikemcgurk1447]

I will declare an interest in this, being a left footer of Irish descent, but Is he trying to ignite the terrorism touch-paper just like his father did back in the 60's when he was involved in the blowing up an electricity sub-station? I've lost friends and colleagues from both sides of the political/religious divide, so I really don't need Junior spewing out the same crap as his father 50+ years later. Neither, I suspect, do the people of NI.

[@gerardflynn3899]

History has a tendency to repeat itself, especially when some people do not learn from the mistakes of the past.

[@paulkinsella6536]

Hi Mike McGurk. Yeah his father caused a lot of shit with his ranting and raving. Marching all over the streets and byways of N.I.preaching anti Catholic rhetoric and threatening civil war. A man of God? I don't think so!

[@roryoneill9444]

Well said.

[@Shane-nq3nh]

Have a look at the DUP’s Leader Jeffrey at a rally in Ballymoney, I mean what do they aim to achieve from blaming everyone else but themselves on what Brexit has delivered for them, utterly sad

[@RayMcLx]

Ian Sr thankfully gained some wisdom with age and made friends with his former enemies. Unfortunately for the rest of us, his son seems to have missed out on those genes 🙄

[@AndrewWilsonStooshie]

As far as Paisley was concerned, brexit was nothing more than a way to prevent Ireland from reuniting once and for all. The fact it has done the opposite will be a thorn in his side for ever and ever.

[@obtuse1291]

And a well deserved thorn at that.

[@Minime163]

If there's an afterlife and junior meets his daddy in hell and Ireland is United then daddy will kick juniors arse from hell all the way to the gates of heaven so poor old junior will be left earth bound looking at his descendants waving the tricolour and singing the soilders song as geailge.

[@bumblingborisbuffoon6259]

Amen brother.

[@eamondunne8325]

I most absolutely agree!! The biggest fear that the D.U.P has, and always has had is that it terrified that some day it may have to take its orders from Dublin!!! To them, that is taking their orders from Rome!! If G.B.could literally SAW OFF Ulster from the Island of Ireland and let it drift out into the Atlantic Ocean, they would...it has proven to be their most expensive and biggest Colonial Blunder, to put it mildly..The young generation of Northern and Southetn Ireland will bridge this divide and hatred, and its evident, its happening ☘🕶👍🍺🇮🇪🇨🇦

[@vvvlife6414]

Thank you ... that thought has brightened my day... Karma..its a bitch eh .. 🤣

[@didierlemoine6771]

UK is dead, NI is gone, u need to accept it :)

[@awtistiaeth4699]

It is the dis-United Kingdom really. DUP/Sinn Féin run NI, SNP run Scotland, Labour/Plaid run Wales and the tories run England and hope to continue running the other nations as well. They'll fail of course. Personally, I think we should campaign for English independence, as the rest of us seem to get on quite well and have similar approaches to governance, akin to a Scandinavian model. The rabid right can have England, I'm done with Westminster.

[@FreeSpeechStudios111]

The comment about unionists be treated as "second class citizens" honestly angers me to no end! This coming form a man whose father was very vocal when it came to showing his hatred and contempt towards Catholics (at times advocating for physical violence towards them), during a period of thirty years (the Troubles) in which Catholic's were truly treated like second class citizens within their own State. Mr. Paisley has no shame and should be called out for this disgustingly hypocritical statement.

[@Minime163]

Their all the same they just want their protestant state for a protestant people and revert back to 1690

[@frankmaxwell5193]

They haven't moved with the times, their homophobic rants will be taken down from within, by young enlightened protestants. The young on both sides have moved on, it's the dinasours who are stirring it .

[@ThomBoecker]

@@Minime163 Agreed. But if they want that, they should emigrate to one of the red states in the US. Alaska maybe. Or Texas. Idaho comes to mind as well.

[@Minime163]

@@frankmaxwell5193 hope your right Frank.

[@ingridschmid1166]

@@Minime163 One should understand their point of view, after all it's only on accounts of this painful and ancient religious divide that individuals as mediocre as this dup lot and affiliates could possibly enjoy that much power and affluence. They very much behave like damp Mafioso .

[@telhadaway3833]

Folks I grow up in northern Ireland through the 80s believe me this is mild to what the DUP have been behind over the years,

[@johnfromireland7551]

I am fascinated to see what happens, soon, with the election and the Minister of State's border poll decision.

[@johng.1703]

"Street Politics"? is that a new name for domestic terrorism?

[@liamc9140]

His Father the mighty Ian Paisley Snr on Margaret Thacther singing the Anglo Irish Agreement "If it comes to it every Loyalists must get ready for hand to hand combat on the streets of Northern Ireland

[@johnrussell3961]

Banksy better realise what it means when it comes to NI. Headline…..Famous graffiti artist kneecapped in Belfast.

[@liamc9140]

@@johnrussell3961 can you lonk me that statement please,I've Googled and I can seem to find any evidence of a graffiti artists kneecapped in Northern Ireland.

[@johnrussell3961]

@@liamc9140 . It was prediction if he went there now,

[@thiloreichelt4199]

No, non no. Not the DUP! Only the other side!

[@DavidByrden1]

The DUP's position seems quite clear@ "We REALLY DO NOT WANT this thing that we WANTED and VOTED for. And we are SO VERY LOYAL to the UK that we will REBEL AGAINST IT."

[@julianshepherd2038]

3 the Pope is the Anti Christ 4 the world is 6000 years old

[@stephenmcdonald7908]

Just like 1914 with the home rule bill.

[@TheEvertw]

The DUP is only against things. Never in favour.

[@TheVicar]

@@TheEvertw Its so much easier to be negative than positive. That's why Brexit happened and I guess why the DUP exist.

[@ciaranirvine]

That has always been the Ulster Unionist position. They took up arms against the British Government in 1912, fighting the British to prove their Loyalty to Britain

[@jackpayne4658]

I can imagine the headlines in the Mail and Express if Sinn Fein had been unhappy about something, and so hinted at a return to 'street politics'.

[@markmac9515]

Put a border in Ireland and watch!

[@Positive916]

It's important to note that Sinn Fein and the DUP are on opposite trajectories here: Sinn Fein is close to acquiring previously unattainable power for themselves in both NI and the ROI, while the DUP is seeing their primacy in Stormont threatened while having witnessed their numbers in Westminster diminish from an all time high. For a group like the DUP, a "I'm taking my ball and going home" group if there ever was one, this is unimaginable, so, of course, they'll egg on their violent unionists friends. Because that's pretty much all they have in the toolbox. And just to be clear, I am just noting these things, not justifying them.

[@roisinmalone3015]

@@markmac9515 There is still a border in Ireland, Ireland is still partitioned.

[@anthonymcloughlin2634]

@@roisinmalone3015 well said Roisin🇮🇪26 + 6 = 1

[@gerardflynn3899]

@@roisinmalone3015 Thankfully it's not a physical border, but I agree with you.

[@TheAdeybob]

Paisley wants his unicorn painted red white and blue. If he doesn't get it, he promises violence.

[@anglonorse2943]

Seems the DUP live in a parallel universe to everyone else

[@Llortnerof]

Some far-away country where they actually matter.

[@conorfields2660]

Well only a group like this could have created and prolonged the civil war here because they would never never never embrace their nationalist neighbours

[@wispa3309]

Aye, one that's only 6000 years old & with fake dinosaur's 😂

[@petergaskin1811]

Somewhere in the latter years of the Seventeenth Century.

[@gerardflynn3899]

They always did. 😂😂

[@MrStoneyburke]

The Paisley's have made an awful lot of money for themselvs out of Hatred and Violence.

[@kevinwillis6707]

exactly, thats the point of this little charade.

[@lazslostpierre9951]

The DUP and the ghoulish Paisley backed Brexit to the hilt with dubious money, then voted against Theresa May's deal which would have kept the UK in the customs union. They had the balance of power to avoid all this and chose not to. They are beyond contempt.

[@jonb4155]

And that is because they want a return to the violence.

[@TheBorderRyker]

The UK government has learned nothing from the troubles.

[@gerardflynn3899]

The UK government has learned nothing full stop.

[@johnlavery3433]

Britain has never understood ireland.

[@RazorMouth]

@@johnlavery3433 They don't want to understand Ireland.

[@johnsometimesoffandsometim8933]

Britain understands sweet FA about anything these days.

[@SirAntoniousBlock]

The English like the Russians are prisoners of history.

[@madaknevarski6478]

If he is advocating a return to violence then he should be arrested for incitement.

[@Alan13Mac]

Without a doubt. He Da was the same

[@am-td1gp]

@@Alan13Mac Yep. Loud and proud live in the 1690 past. And they like to shout loudly about it too. Us from Glasgow have to put up with their stupid marching. Is that racket covered in Patel plan for no loud demos? Shut them up.

[@johnfromireland7551]

There is a law, in the UK called Hate Speech, but the UK Fascist state have a tendency to apply the laws only to those the British State deem to be Catholic, of a Nationalist opinion or of Irish ethnicity (and anyone who is not a WASP). One law for them another for everybody else. I hope the UK falls on it own sword.

[@gerardflynn3899]

I can't give you enough thumbs up for that comment.

[@seamusandpat]

Brandon Lewis thinks ...'what did I do to deserve this job'

[@paulmurray8922]

But of course! I repeat, MI5 needs to keep a close eye on these DUP folks.

[@mijicmugendo]

Mi5 helped unionist terrorists the last time, including the murdering of Irish citizens in Ireland and a British government report said that.

[@paulmurray8922]

@@mijicmugendo I know. But the cost and implications of doing so now are different.

[@gerardflynn3899]

@@paulmurray8922 Agreed, especially now that the IRA no longer exists.

[@mijicmugendo]

@@paulmurray8922 Only if they are caught. Aidan mc anespie trial is only happening now after 34 years. The hid the truth for decades .

[@paulmurray8922]

@@gerardflynn3899 This is NI we're talking about. I prefer the term "in a latent state".😏

[@Richard_Turner]

Why does noone ever go to the next part and ask, ok so when we scrap it, then what do you put in its place that satisfies all sides? Also remember.. these people tell us they got brexit done 🤣

[@jyvben1520]

and the EU said it would scrap the FTA ... so the UK would feel it ... WTO rules or EU rules made by EU members ...

[@tonycook7679]

@@jyvben1520 you have WTO rules already, it's under WTO rules that you can have the agreements you have. Throw them all out and see how that works out.

[@hypsyzygy506]

@@tonycook7679 The UK is currently breaking WTO rules, and has not yet been brought into line.

[@LL-vk9zc]

A thug in a suit is still a thug.

[@mandycouchbean]

Keep Calling it out Max ! 👏🙂

[@wolfcamera1]

The loyalist in Northern Ireland saw Brexit as an opportunity to derail the Good Friday Agreement, but it has backfired on them and they are losing respect among their own community for advising them to vote Brexit, when clearly they would be in a better position politically if they had remained as a member of the EU.

[@roryoneill9444]

That wouldn't have made any difference as it was won in England then Northern Ireland was forced to leave the EU.

[@wolfcamera1]

@@roryoneill9444 Yes that maybe so, but they wouldn't be in a contradictory position with their electorate, and looking foolish as having voted for the very thing that will unite ireland. Trust is still an important part of politics even though it would seem that the current state of the political landscape would suggest otherwise. I think personally Ireland would have united at some point because of the religious demographics and political economic factors. Brexit and the DUPs disastrous policy will just make the inevitable process come to fruition much quicker.

[@roryoneill9444]

@@wolfcamera1 Trust in british politics are you for real. There PM lies like a dog and the opposition hasn't a clue. The only parties in the uk that are trust worthy are the Alliance Party & the SDLP.

[@rizzledizzle3443]

Violence and social unrest is all they have and all they've ever had.

[@gerardflynn3899]

100% True

[@falconeshield]

Wait until Qatar 2022 starts. The people will forget about politics, rich primadonnas will lose against whoever and then they'll be pissed at the players rather than parliament for their shitty lives.

[@grahamthomson6969]

Are they affiliated with the KKK?

[@michaelstapelberg7751]

No but the tories are

[@fintonmainz7845]

The Orange Order and the KKK have a common origin and share ideology to this day.

[@peterdickinson4599]

No. They’re affiliated with the Orange Order. Look up what they stand for.

[@colmmacN]

I love how someone shouts "Ian!" right after saying "Street Politics." They know exactly what he is saying.

[@roderickmain9697]

Its a tricky one to guess. Brexit has destabalised NI. The NI protocol is a way of trying to hold on to some of that stability and from a practical/business point of view, not only is it working, NI is benefiting. But thtas a problem for the DUP and loyalists. A successful NI is closer to the republic than it is to GB. The more it succeeds the closer it gets and they can see that that road logically, leads to reunification. Even though that would be the best thing for the people, DUP are stuck in the past fighting old battles wanting to be part of a UK that no longer exists. They want to be part of a sinking UK - they want to jump out of the lifeboat and go down with the rest of the ship.

[@billelder125]

Spot on Roderick

[@georgecrothers5618]

Very well put.

[@ThW5]

Don't you mean: -"they want to tie the lifeboat to the sinking ship and let it be drawn down with the rest of the ship."? Jumping the lifeboat would be LEAVING the six counties.

[@hasse102]

Why don't they move to england to get all the brexit benefits and let NI sink with EU. /S

[@Ardelanin]

@@hasse102 because in england they'd be marked as outsiders and insulted by the same brand of xenophobes who the DUP support in NI.

[@gdwnet]

It's hilarious how upset brexiteers are for getting exactly what they voted for. Brexiteers really need to get over brexit and enjoy the benefits it has brought them.

[@paddydiskin3645]

If Ian Paisley Jr of the DUP provokes street politics, it will not have been the first time that an Ian Paisley of the DUP has done that. The late Reverend Paisley did just the same from 1969 onwards until he became one of the Chuckle Brothers.

[@georgecrothers5618]

Plenty think he was the main antagonist on the Shankill Road when Peter Ward, a catholic barman, was gunned down as he left his place of work in 1966. Several years before that he caused mayhem in Belfast when he demanded that an Irish tricolour be removed from an office owned by Republicans. From memory there were 4 or 5 deaths in the ensuing riots which lasted for days. As a boy I still remember the burned out buildings on the Falls Rd.

[@stevebinning977]

Paisley wasn't sitting close enough to his microphone. His dad wouldn't have needed one.

[@starmersbarber]

🤣😁 NEVER!!!!!!

[@bumblingborisbuffoon6259]

The biggest Catholic hating mouth piece ever, and kept the troubles brewing for many a year. Old rev Ian recruiter of loyalist terrorists.

[@PanglossDr]

Call him what he is, cynical and evil, just like his father.

[@johnjephcote7636]

The U.S will be watching every detail and watching closely Westminster's response to these DUP threats.

[@wolfgangaus6264]

Carpetbagger paisley at his usual work.

[@markmac9515]

Funny how the self proclaimed 'goliath' of the EU thinks Biden is the solution to all their woes.

[@paulkinsella6536]

@@gemstar8386 Mr. Paisley is not very bright. Street violence = more cost to the Westminister Government in security at a time when Covid 19 had a negative effect on it's finances and increased the national debt by a large amount. Ian Paisley is threatening a man whose government is funding N.I. and keeping it afloat. Ian will ya go home and do some work in the garden while the weathers fine.

[@Minime163]

Boris will just wait until the election in may and when the DUP lose the first minister's position he'll just wash his hands of them and let someone else deal with any fallout from the protocol.

[@stephenthomas3085]

@@gemstar8386 The UK steel industry workers will as their jobs finally go as a result of US sanctions, continued indefinitely making UK products hopelessly uncompetitive. Biden may be old but he's got some steel and he would not hesitate to screw the UK and, politically, the Irish UK lobby will love him and vote for him. Brandon is a prick and a coward and speaks with forked tongue, he know perfectly well the the EU and the US would ream the UK's arse. Not only that. forget the CPTPP (or whatever the frigging hell it's called) because the UK will not be able to join whilst it is recking peace in NI.

[@Midland_Wolf_71]

Dont worry too much, the clock is ticking for these throwbacks, Ireland will be reunited in the not too distant future, everything is heading in that direction.. ☘

[@tomgreene2282]

Who will pay ?

[@malsmith1618]

@@tomgreene2282 everyone a bit like when the Berlin Wall came down it will take a few years to stabilise

[@starmersbarber]

Here's hoping. This does feel like the end is nigh for this particularly awful brand of unionism (and that's speculating if there is actually a non-awful brand of unionism these days!!!)

[@tomgreene2282]

@@malsmith1618 A lot of bits to be found ...the place is a financial basket case.

[@malsmith1618]

@@tomgreene2282 I think with a better government it might be ok the north has a budget of 10 billion a year for a population of about 1.84 million the south has a budget of 103 billion euro per year for a population of 4.9 million in better hands I think it could work

[@wbm3085]

So in love with being a Brit and getting shafted by its government, how about talking about cost of living crisis...

[@Minime163]

Well if you had an itchy bum you could be the same don't mock poor junior😉

[@samdegoeij6576]

The Northern Irish state or the U.K state should crack down hard on promoters of violence and show it has control over these extremists! Men like Ian Paisly should be forced to walk this back and apologize for this sort of reckless behaviour!

[@roryoneill9444]

This has been happening in the occupied territory for a century. There is still no war crimes tribunal for the British soldiers that dragged 10 men into the street and executed them because of their religion in '71. I might be wrong but didn't the NAZIs do something similar in Warsaw in '39.

[@johnfromireland7551]

When it comes down to a making a decision the British Government always side, politically with the "continuation of the union". A border poll vote for a united Ireland would remove the British State from NI.

[@michaelhayes105]

@@johnfromireland7551 the only fair thing is to have two separate votes firstly one for the people in Northern Ireland to vote on whether or not they want to be politically unified as a single entity To the ROI or whether to remain within the UK? Then if they vote yes to a unified Ireland there should then be a vote taken within the ROI on that unification of which everyone knows what the outcome of that vote would be…as no matter how much people in the ROI may want a politically unified Ireland it is not as clear cut as the nationalist would like to think it is in Northern Ireland no matter how many of the commentators on here would have people believe it is on this very bias nationalistic Irish channel. As the destiny of Northern Ireland should be decided by the people of Northern Ireland & not by any outside forces trying to force it upon them such as the EU,ROI or even joe Biden…because whether you nationalist like it or not NI are still a part of the UK so any yes vote would still have to be verified by the government in Westminster

[@johnfromireland7551]

@@michaelhayes105 I agree. Once NI votes for reunification it is, then, up to the Irish and British states to implement the unification. If that requires Ireland to vote and/or more Acts of Parliament to be creayed then that is what has to be done. Ni is in limbo and the status quo cannot continue. There is no Stormont.

[@michaelhayes105]

@@johnfromireland7551 this may become a reality once the up coming election are held & decided who ever holds sway will make that decision if it is Sinn Fein then a vote will more than likely be forthcoming if it is the Unionist then it may not? Only time will tell it maybe something the Unionist cannot avoid?…But whatever the out come of any vote on unification there will be those on either side who will not be happy if it goes against them & that in itself could prove problematic? Hopefully that won’t be an issue thou?

[@robertlock6041]

The main problem for the DUP is the American position on the Good Friday Agreement. The British government is squirming on the same hook. Brexit has destabilised Northern Ireland and is in the process of devastating the economy. Selective blindness can only continue for so long before common sense prevails. Perhaps... Keep up the good work, Max.

[@haraldschuster3067]

Um, the NI economy is doing quite well. So which economy are you talking about that is being devastated?

[@robertlock6041]

@@haraldschuster3067 Hi Harald, good point! To answer your question, the UK economy ex Northern Ireland. I should have made the distinction. But this is another factor making the Johnson government squirm...

[@jgg59]

You mean devastating the economy of England Scotland and Wales? The Northern Ireland economy is doing quite well

[@RazorMouth]

@@haraldschuster3067 he means destabilized politically, not economically.

[@ClaireSweets]

NI economy best it's ever been and we can export anywhere, unlike Britain.

[@richardcope8102]

They have form when they threatened May and made her life a living nightmare.

[@grahamthomson6969]

They dont hold the balance of power now. They msy well be history after the May election

[@richardcope8102]

@@grahamthomson6969 true & true.

[@roisinmalone3015]

May had a confidence and supply arrangement with the DUP, who have long-standing links to terrorist organisations, to maintain power. What did you expect to happen. Plus re the Good Friday Agreement the British Government is supposed to remain neutral. Can't remain neutral when you have one side propping up your government. May made her bed.

[@pablosaintmarr3223]

May's incompetence made her life a nightmare.

[@richardcope8102]

@@pablosaintmarr3223 Wrong. DUP & ERG ( both Leave advocates ) made her life a total misery. *May was as competent as any UK leader could be* in pushing through a very marginal and damaging Policy.

[@starmersbarber]

One of the very few Tories to emerge with any credit in recent times has been Julian Smith, Northern Ireland Secretary...until he was ditched by Johnson for showing signs of actually being competent. Now, his successor Lewis comes across as being totally out of his depth, with no presence whatsoever. This sums up Johnson's time as PM perfectly.

[@chicklechives]

The first time in history that a Paisley has not been heard

[@robertlock6041]

Long may it continue!

[@gerardflynn3899]

😂👍

[@johnhall6436]

I thought that it was a crime to incite violence, regardless of where and when it is spoken.

[@gerardflynn3899]

It is

[@paulkinsella6536]

@@gerardflynn3899 So the U.V.F. are going to target the British government. I knew in the end, they would turn on their own. Is political unionism in a shit state or what? 😟

[@liamm.1431]

Only if your a nationalist/Republican, this hateful government is incapable of fairness and the opposition isn't much better, I'd love to see Starmer in the bogside or West Belfast extolling the virtues of "british" rule.

[@TadeuszCantwell]

The British government can't and wont do anything to do this. Violence in N.I is an acceptable consequence for the Brexit illusion.

[@Irish780]

Maby just maby the USA will the Americans will aftreall the signed it too

[@damarekonayaro5781]

A throwback to the same methods employed by his father*. *Known to have been directly involved in the Rostrevor bomb and having orchestrated violent response to the peaceful civil rights movement (pre dating the PIRA.)

[@AdamSmith-cc5mz]

Why do I keep thinking that deliberately restarting the Troubles would be about as good for the DUP as deciding to roll tanks into Ukraine currently is for Putin?

[@gerardflynn3899]

Hmm.. Good question.

[@niallmacceide4603]

What Sri Lanka Jolly doesn't understand is that the Torys don't give a flying chapatti about the DUP(es)

[@stevenbreach2561]

The DUP is losing influence,so it was inevitable that they'll threaten to throw their toys out of their pram if they don't get their own way

[@paulgalligan1916]

Chap looks like he died and got dug up.. Absolute relic of a thing . Sooner we're united an done with these bygone creatures the better..🇮🇪

[@asheer9114]

I really hope that Shin Fien and IRA won't succumb to DUP's provocations... because that would give those colonial era fosil Unionist reason they want to kill not only Protocol but entire Good Friday Agreement...

[@brianmaguire4675]

Can the DUP heavy boys and thugs afford to take their battle to the streets.... there's a shortage of buses suitable to be thrown under and petrol is now too expensive to burn out the buses.....

[@mandycouchbean]

“Doesn’t Understand or Doesn’t Care” Why not both!😡🤬

[@petergaskin1811]

They have always hated the GFA and see this issue as a means to destroy it.

[@Markos7979]

"Street Politics", unbelievable comment from an elected politician. If Sinn Fein even hinted at the idea of any form of confrontation/violence then there support with crumble, and rightly so. The 'Democratic' Unionist Party...really. I hope all law-abiding citizens living in Northern Ireland see them for what they are and vote accordingly 🗳

[@kevinwillis6707]

this isnt new behaviour at all, jeffrey donaldson may put it a little more subtly but its still the same dogwhistling they have always done

[@EGF1000]

the orangemen marching is one of the most frightening spectacles i have seen. and was politically active in apartheid south africa - and

[@paulmcgroggan7749]

He's more worried about his job and not being able to collect money from his pals

[@ClannCholmain]

They’re playing the old Paisley senior card. A return to violently resisting Westminster.

[@frankieseward8667]

They don't have the numbers anymore though.

[@ClannCholmain]

@@frankieseward8667 the only reason why there’s a NI in the first place is because they don’t actually believe in the democratic process. Never did.

[@jackiehaigh3401]

Brext = Brexit Brexit got done. Sad but true Your choice - got what you wanted DUP didn't get their land border so they will find other reasons to fight.

[@roisinmalone3015]

Except there is nothing positive about the union to fight for

[@joemacdonnagh6750]

N.I is like an ex that doesn't know she's is being ghosted. It's over Ian..move on! .. U .. R....DUmPed 😱😵

[@cameronmcintyre1251]

This guy is slowly turning into a poor imitation of his father. I had always hoped he would do better. It's sad to see a proud land with proud people continue to live like this.

[@oisnowy5368]

They should stuff their pride where the sun don't shine and then they become respectable and peaceful and worthwhile people. Their pride is their issue. It is not just one of the seven deadly sins for fun.

[@starmersbarber]

This guy already has a trail of corruption and rotten behaviour well established behind him.

[@Ardelanin]

he doesn't represent a majority of the population, just to be sure.

[@Towmas]

As the father did as does the son. The ‘Reverend’ threatened and delivered to violence from the pulpit to the streets

[@homolgus1]

Most people in Northern Ireland are happy with the protocol but the media focus on the extreme element just as a majority voted to remain in the EU

[@stiglarsson8405]

Soo, now DUP voted for the wrong thing (brexit) and have to suffer for this!

[@hasse102]

No, they want all the brexit benefits GB have. They just can't exept that they won. And they don't want NI to crash and burn with EU, in lets say xxx years, as it have been on the way since the start so really soon it will break up and then the little kingdom of england can become the new "Brussels" and run the world like in the old times. /S

[@mbontekoe3358]

Noticeable that no-one ever had to ask the original Ian Paisley to "speak up"

[@lordveteran9126]

It's amazing... arguing amongst ourselves over rules the EU have.. like we have any say in it anymore or they will bend over for us.... all the EU has to say is.... "single market.. and it all goes away"

[@grimborn9949]

Good observation. Accept ALL the rules or keep out. After only a year it has become clear that the EU doesn't need de UK. No concessions from that side to expect.

[@kathrynmacdonnell6224]

The EU is siding with their EU member, Ireland.

[@mandycouchbean]

Well said Max ! 👏👏❤️❤️

[@bigkdog5091]

Maybe Blewis can persuade the DUP to support the protocol in a limited and specific way

[@ffi1001]

👏

[@hypsyzygy506]

Blewit?

[@raymccready9957]

Making a living off the coat tails of his Father. Let's hope he has a 'Road to Damascus' moment like his Da did!

[@frankowot4]

Everything is about being 'british' first to the exclusion of everything else. NI is not even part of Britain ironically, they are united-kingdish if anything.

[@RazorMouth]

They're Irish and part of the UK. Just like when all Ireland was part of the UK we were still Irish and part of the UK. Irish people never considered themselves British even when we were part of the UK. Britishness in NI was invented after the partition of Ireland in 1922, so the Irish unionists could have a separate identity to the Irish nationalists. So they now say they're British, which is nonsense IMO.

[@vectravi2008]

They are proud members of the Union....until it comes to abortion, same sex marriage, cultural identity and equality.

[@RazorMouth]

@@vectravi2008 or anything that makes them look, sound or smell Irish. Maybe we should tell them they have Irish accents and they might cut their own tongues out.

[@frankowot4]

And in England they are referred to as 'Paddies'.

[@RazorMouth]

@@frankowot4 Because we are all Paddies 😂

[@pauljosephbuggle3722]

I lived in Belfast in the 80s and in the Troubles. Whilst I had friends from the other side of the community and for a year lived in a Unionist area, there can be no doubt that there were second class citizens. Of course the middle classes didn't suffer as much but the bigotry was there too. This is the same old story. It used to work but the world has moved on and we've all heard it before. The Protocol enjoys the good will of the people and had to say. The DUP can't understand that their veto and their threats are things of the past. No wonder they don't believe in evolution as they think that things will or can be never change.

[@bikeman9899]

The way someone said "Ian!" immediately as he said "street violence" was telling. Thugs on the street, those associated with the DUP, need political cover to protect them from prosecution. When Paisley says this to a UK government minister, who responds with a fairly bland " I'm for free speech and appropriate protest" , the thugs are listening. The words are right, but the tone is meek. Lewis should have said, with conviction " NI renounced violence in the GFA, and we thr UK government will not permit a part of this country to use violence and intimation to secure political goals"

[@IWillYeah]

Bang on

[@hypsyzygy506]

Brandon Lewis knew perfectly well that Ian Paisley Jr was stating very clearly that terrorism is on the table, and that he and the DUP will use it.

[@gregmaitland7051]

Brexit has been a complete horlicks that has caused such problems to the UK economy that it will take years for all of the consequences to be recognised. The NI Protocol was a life raft for the economy of NI, but the DUP don't want the economy to be saved. They seem so happy for it to be dragged below the waves by Westminster. Other countries looking on at this are probable wondering if the NI Protocol IS scrapped, how could they possibly go into business with the UK knowing that any agreement with them will be torn up without a second thought. This summer will be fascinating to watch with the pending election AND the result of the 2021 census. Remember, it just took 51.9% of voters (not of the electorate) fir Brexit to be triggered.

[@philip013]

I think Boris Johnson wouldn't mind some violence on the streets of Northern Ireland. He'd blame the EU and demand further concessions.

[@brianlea2853]

Anyone remember that anti-terrorism PSA from the nineties that featured the song Cat’s in the Cradle “I’m gonna to be like you Dad, you know I’m gonna be like you “ Always thought that ad was a bit too cheesy and on the nose But the dog whistling apple doesn’t fall far from the dog whistling tree Poor junior, alls he needed was a hug from dear old dad

[@frankbauer1397]

"Street Politics" sounds like incitement to me.

[@vivo-audio]

Maybe we should collectively start to ignore folk who think the earth is only 6,000 years old.

[@richardcope8102]

Off Topic ( but crucial ) - Tories and Bank of England have single-handedly created UK ultra High Inflation - either deliberately or by accident. Sunak never knew or has forgotten about Tory Monetary Theory espoused by Maggie T. #Economics #Monetarism #Inflation

[@roisinmalone3015]

This video is about the DUP and Northern Ireland.

[@johnrussell3961]

They are now stuck with the same problem Labour had in the mid 70’s. Imported fuel inflation they could not control. And guess who Thatcher blamed that in? Why….Labour of course.

[@roisinmalone3015]

@@johnrussell3961 This video is about the DUP and Northern Ireland and threats of violence.

[@richardcope8102]

@@roisinmalone3015 Yes I did appreciate the fact.

[@MadBiker-vj5qj]

@@roisinmalone3015 And that is why John included the words "Off Topic ( but crucial )" at the start of his comment.

[@Dreyno]

Apparently some in NI found Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast” less a warning from history and more a handbook to follow.

[@georgedoherty962]

It is very unusual for Jnr to step out from underneath his Rock into the light where we can all see him. He was responsible for Arlene getting tbe heave but nobody knew until she was gone. Poots and Company were making jokes about it. So it's a power grab,He thinks he is taking back control of Daddy,s DUP. I wonder what Peter Robinson will have to say about this. Jnr is devoid of any saving graces. He is your standard Chartlan through and through. I watched his face very closely Jnr was terrified while quizzing Lewis. He is successfully sneaky whereas Daddy Paisley was bull in a China Shop successful. The lads on the Newtownards road will not be impressed.

[@keithparker2206]

Ian Paisely, just like his father, does not want any kind of agreement! He thrives on strife.

[@marchirving7316]

Echoes of the Home Rule crisis: Unionists expressing their "loyalty" by threatening the British government with violence, and elements in the Tory party happy to urge them on for their own reasons.

[@jyvben1520]

yeah, a nice distraction for bojo and his gang of criminals ...

[@roisinmalone3015]

That didn't end well

[@marchirving7316]

@@roisinmalone3015 no, exactly.

[@garriejackson9551]

I knew this would happen years ago after the vote but when I spoke about it I was called ridiculous

[@pjmcgoldrick1967]

The DUP know they are on the wrong side of history, hence their increasing desperation. As demography continues its inexorable path, the threat of violence is all they have to offer. We are witnessing the last sting of the dying wasp (no pun intended). The Ireland they hated and feared so much no longer exists, if they would only but look; the Empire they love so much has disintegrated in shame and ignominy. They are the majority in only two of Ireland's 32 counties - it's over for them. Even Brexit England is embarrassed by them and their big cousin Scotland has finally turned its back on them. They are Europe's Afrikaners, but without a de Klerk to save them. They are, however, still dangerous, and they should be faced down by the British government. They won't be, of course. The upcoming election will tell a few tales. 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇮🇪

[@kan_turk2626]

british government face anything/anyone down - ha ha ha

[@kevinbarry1724]

The writing is on the wall for the DUP.

[@mandycouchbean]

Afternoon Max & all here ! 🙂🌻

[@robertlock6041]

Hi Mandy 😀.

[@mandycouchbean]

@@robertlock6041 Hi Robert Hope your Well 🙂

[@richardcope8102]

Yet another excellent & informative Vid

[@fredlenz4743]

Like father like son. Nothing but a trouble maker. Same old rhetoric that saw the troubles and could see them return.

[@emckinley1977]

bring the British Army into loyalist areas, that would be amazing to see 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@PercivalBlakeney]

@TheIrishNPC "Amazing"? That's a very diplomatic choice of euphemism... and it'd be ALL any if us need right now. Here we sit on the brink of WW III, nuclear exchange a very real possibility... and "Junior" wants to stoke the fires of sectarianism for his own political ambitions. 😿

[@gerardflynn3899]

Nothing new on that score.

[@junglie]

looks like the poison apple does not fall far from the tree....

[@andyholmes7901]

They threatened civil war and terrorism in the 1920's to get their way and certainly will do so again if there was a Boarder Poll, and in the Republic as well to remind them that Ireland would inherit a terrorism issue. And the British (i am) have always played dangerous , dirty and loose (and not just in Ireland). I would use other words to describe their current behaviour, but don't want to upset the algorithm's.

[@Lucretia9000]

"I defend the right of people's and proper appropriate protest," Brandon Lewis, Toryscum, who has voted to strip people's right to protest.

[@fintonmainz7845]

Is Ian Paisley visiting Northern Ireland or London on holidaya then? He's blessed with good weather.

[@fcb9950]

Probably back from Singapore from another freebee brown envelope holiday

[@davidrose213]

The trouble is Lewis is also up against the ERG in the U.K.

[@gunner678]

Bloody shameful

[@davidwright7193]

Ah I would interpret that as “if you don’t do what we want the UVF will repossess your knee caps”. It looks like it is time for Sasha Stanleyovich to send someone to the Maldives to investigate the whereabouts of Abramovich’s gin palace and here is the perfect man for the job. It will take 2 weeks all expenses paid and of course his family must accompany him.

[@bodricthered]

Forgive my ignorance, but isn't threats of domestic terrorism a crime in this country.. I know the law is selectively applied these days but isn't this a little over the line, or is this a sufficiently 'specific and limited'

[@chris56269]

The first time in decades someone actually got what they wanted when they cast their vote and they are furious about it.

[@TheVicar]

Some people just like being furious in between waking up and going to sleep.

[@sootie620]

It’s a case of “ be careful what you wish for” psssst someone please inform the DUP that they got their wish and that fairies don’t take back granted wishes 😜

[@trjgiggs5489]

IT'S SIMPLY THIS!!! STREET POLITICS = STREET VIOLENCE

[@stevespiers9120]

For God's sake when will a politician stand up and admit BREXIT is a total disaster and end it?

[@falconeshield]

No. You voted for it. Now deal with it.

[@stevespiers9120]

@@falconeshield Who is 'You' exactly?

[@Londoneye57]

How does anyone know it's a disaster? We only just left the EU and it is far too soon to know what the consequences are.

[@stevespiers9120]

@@Londoneye57 How deep is that hole in the sand that you keep your head in?

[@djsmithe]

I thought we were done with Article 16. I think Joe needs to make another phone call.

[@andyb4864]

Why are they angry over something they voted for?

[@smc2406]

Brandon Lewis is in co with the DUP their both brexiteers remember ! Nether want the protocol, they'd both rather a border on the island of ireland, but to get the brexit they wanted they had to agree the protocol knowing they would dump it at a later date, and if their plan had of worked out ,the EU would have to put checks on the island of ireland & then the EU would be the ones breaking the good Friday agreement

[@anthonyshelley6814]

No that was never going to happen the EU was never going to abandon Ireland or the US, so big mistake by proddies and UK brexiteers so they're both losers and brexit is still not finished more to come, you all know who to blame.

[@HamnaTabuu]

🤦 oh dear.

[@JackdeDuCoeur]

So, beating the dead horse hasn't worked - street politics is a pitiful attempt to reanimate the poor beast. I hope they wear themselves out.