General News Thread

(17-06-2021 20:13 )Stemmw Wrote:  Edwin Poots to stand down as DUP leader, just a few weeks after becoming leader

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics...ssion=true

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-es...521158.amp

Hark! Is that the sound of Arlene Foster laughing her tits off...

John Major 2016: Brexit may "destabilise the complicated constitutional settlement that underpins stability in Northern Ireland"

Foster: "rather sad"

Paisley Jr: "desperate"

Dodds: "scaremongering"



John Major 2021:

Blimey, what a by election result!?

https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status...75748?s=20

Hark! Is that the sound of Boris choking on his breakfast...

Should we call 999 for him?

Did I just hear a woman on the news talking about how she beat off a crocodile? oo er

^Apparently she was running around shouting "I need sex and make it snappy".

The former Speaker of the House John Bercow has switched allegiance to Labour after previously being a Tory MP.

^I'm guessing Starmer has offered him a peerage...

Meanwhile the Conservative MP for Wakefield - Imran Ahmad Khan has been charged with sexually assaulting a 15 year old boy in 2008 and has therefore lost the Whip (not the one he maybe used on the boy I assume).