Where it all went wrong for the DUP since its total dominance in 2016: The party has spent 6 years damaging itself – and the Union. Many DUP insiders despair at their party’s perpetual scandals and serial ineptitude, but don’t expect that to change. #DUP22 belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/column…
It's breakfast time and already the DUP press office has created a problem of its own making. If political parties were to ban everyone who's been to an event they don’t like or works for a media outlet they don't like, the press benches would be empty.
https://twitter.com/AmandaFBelfast/status/1578658711358226432?t=9X9RgPVYv5BLoEEGOWpGgA&s=19
And now the DUP has U-turned on banning a reporter from its conference. About the same level of strategic thinking involved as when Arlene Foster said "I will never accede to an Irish language act", and then quietly agreed to it as the price of getting back as First Minister.
A DUP member just texted: "Short of drowning puppies live on stage, it's hard to imagine how the first hour of the conference could have been worse". #DUP22
Inside the DUP conference, @AlexKane221b finds the mood downbeat and uncertain. A party member tells him they can't remember things being this bad since they were booed out of the Agreement count in 1998. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/commen…
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