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28 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Oh God. I’ve just seen the tweet. I feel bad even continuing the pile on on the tweet. So I will just ruthlessly subtweet the tweet.

Those who tweet without knowledge of Northern Irish politics should probably consider the merits of not tweeting at all.
I mean. If we want to be really kind it’s not TOTALLY wrong. The modernising issue is a big one for the DUP. And actually if you replace Sinn Fein with Alliance I suppose it’s not a terrible take...?

Ok ok, it is. But it has potential.
If you want some proper informed analysis of “what all this means” for the DUP and Unionism, you could do much worse than this from @PronouncedAlva this morning.
Similarly, I will be on air with @ShelaghFogarty at 1345 giving my two cents. I can’t promise it will be any more lucid than Ailbhe’s analysis but sure tune in anyway.

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Matthew Thompson Profile picture
29 Apr
So Edwin Poots, darling of the traditionalists, is favourite to be the next DUP leader.

For those who don’t know him, a short introduction to the man, in his own words

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On the age of the Earth: “My view on the earth is that it's a young earth. My view is 4000 BC.”
Poots on the Big Bang: “You’re telling me that cosmic balls of dust gathered and there was an explosion?

“We’ve had lots of explosions in Northern Ireland and I’ve never seen anything come out of that that was good”
Poots on gay civil partnerships:

“Basically its unnatural in the first instance, and it’s abominable in the second instance.”
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Matthew Thompson Profile picture
21 Mar
This is insane. They have actually lost their minds.
In November 2020, the EU diplomatic service released the following communiqué. Now look where we are.
Quite apart from anything else, just last week the EU’s own Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said the problem was a failure to actually use the vaccines they had. Direct quote below.

Why ban exports when you’re not even using what you’ve got?
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Matthew Thompson Profile picture
19 Mar
Now correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t recall this leading the @FoxNews home page?

It’s almost as if somebody falling on the stairs isn’t newsworthy... any more than somebody walking down a ramp.
(For those who recall this equally nonsense “story”: old man walks carefully)

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14 Mar
“The police will not keep us safe”

The tone here is very much protest now rather than vigil. The crowd growing all the time.

This is no more COVID compliant than yesterday’s vigil, but police are keeping their distance.

Learning perhaps from their actions last night.

@LBC
Crowd must be several thousand strong. Now marching towards Parliament Square. The name of Sarah Everard on their lips. As well as some more colourful expressions of anger aimed at the police...

@LBC
Protestors just staged a lie down in Parliament Square, in memory of Sarah Everard “and all victims of state violence”

@LBC
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Matthew Thompson Profile picture
14 Jan
Baffling. London is 6th out of 7 English regions in terms of the numbers of vaccines given out.

Yet it has the highest infection rates in the country, and is one of the most populous regions.

The Midlands has given out nearly twice as many doses.

@LBC
Also, the @standardnews has reported on City Hall's concerns that London is getting fewer jabs than it should here:

standard.co.uk/news/london/lo…
Statement from @SadiqKhan on London’s vaccine shortage:
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Matthew Thompson Profile picture
14 Jan
These two things can be true:

1) The DUP might have forseen that Brexit would be challenging in the context of Ireland. Not like they weren't warned.

2) They were still betrayed by Johnson, who literally stood up at DUP conference and said he would never create a sea border.
The DUP's great mistake was arguably not to support Brexit in the first place, as many Remainers are gloating today, but not to support Theresa May's compromise.

That would have left NI in a much better place from a Unionist perspective than Johnson's deal.
Although that of course is only in hindsight, post-betrayal. Harder to see at the time that May's imperfect deal was better.

You could make a kinder argument that the DUP took Johnson at his word, and that was actually the mistake.
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