DUP says 'significant areas of difference' remain with Sinn Féin

[BlackMageMari]

[B]DUP says 'significant areas of difference' remain with Sinn Féin [/B]

[URL="https://www.rte.ie/news/2017/1014/912342-power-sharing/"]https://www.rte.ie/news/2017/1014/912342-power-sharing/[/URL]

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The DUP has ruled out any immediate return of the power-sharing Executive at Stormont.

In a blow to the Irish and British governments' hopes that a deal to bring back Stormont is close, the Democratic Unionist Party said "significant areas of difference" remained with Sinn Féin.

In a statement, the party said: "Any notion that an agreement is imminent and that the Assembly will meet next week has no basis in fact given the present state of the talks."

The Stormont assembly collapsed in January following the resignation of the late Martin McGuinness as Deputy First Minister, in a row over the DUP's handling of a botched renewable heat energy scheme.

Months of talks aimed at restoring power-sharing have so far failed, with Sinn Féin and the DUP unable to reach agreement on a number of key areas, including an Irish Language Act and legacy issues.

Earlier this week, Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney said that talks to restore power-sharing were at a "sensitive" point.

The DUP insisted it remained "committed to trying to secure an agreement that can be supported by unionists as well as nationalists".

"Any talks outcomes will be judged against the criteria we published in our March Assembly election manifesto," it said.[/QUOTE]

While there might be issues that actually need to be discussed (like an Irish language act), some of their "areas of difference" include things such as gay marriage - so I have simply no respect for the DUP.

[fruxodaily]

Can someone tell me why the Queen didn't just dissolve North Irish Parliament and call a fresh election to sort out this failure of Government.

To me, if the ruling party or parties cannot govern, then there's no confidence in Government and that should always trigger an election for the people to decide who should rule.

DUP and Sinn Fein ain't going to be making any peace while DUP are in a coalition with the Tories, and as a direct result, Sinn Fein is at the table with a fucking Tory puppet

[Menien Goneld]

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;52779394]Can someone tell me why the Queen didn't just dissolve North Irish Parliament and call a fresh election to sort out this failure of Government.

To me, if the ruling party or parties cannot govern, then there's no confidence in Government and that should always trigger an election for the people to decide who should rule.

DUP and Sinn Fein ain't going to be making any peace while DUP are in a coalition with the Tories, and as a direct result, Sinn Fein is at the table with a fucking Tory puppet[/QUOTE]

Can someone tell me why the Queen didn't just dissolve British Parliament and call a fresh election to sort out this failure of Government.

To me, if the ruling party or parties cannot govern, then there's no confidence in Government and that should always trigger an election for the people to decide who should rule.

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For real though, we could do with a do-over as well, and if that was going to happen in Northern Ireland, it would [I]now[/I] screw with our government as well since they bribed the DUP for votes. May as well hit reset on both, and Brexit too while you're at it.

But the Queen would never do that because the second the royal family starts exercising it's power and getting involved (and not just in a ceremonial way like they do now), they'd paint a target on their backs by reminding everyone that we have a bunch of unelected toffs sitting about with veto power over everything.

Besides that, the UK meddling and stopping two Irish parties from working out the governance of their people would not go down well.

[Duskien]

A re-election is stupid because it would just end up with the exact same result. The sticking issue is the Irish language act.

Basically Sinn Fein want the Irish language to be given a special status to protect it. It would let it be used in courts and education. It was promised years ago, since Wales and Scotland have something similar with their languages. Most of the parties in the North want it but the DUP have outright said they would absolutely never allow it to pass through. They think that by granting the Irish language a legal status it would take away their "Britishness" and they're terrified of anything even remotely Irish because they're basically xenophobics.

Since DUP are needed to form government as the biggest unionist party, they've basically been saying "No" for the past year and the government is deadlocked. They've tried suggesting a dual language act that will include Ulster Scots but the other parties have disagreed with that because that is a dialect and not an actual language.