• DUP ex-minister quits National Trust over Pride support
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[url]http://www.itv.com/news/utv/2017-08-06/dup-ex-minister-quits-national-trust-over-pride-support/[/url] [quote]A former DUP health minister in Northern Ireland has resigned his membership of the National Trust in part over its support for Belfast's gay pride march. Jim Wells worked for the conservation group for a decade until 1998, when he was elected to Stormont. He has been a member and donor for almost 20 years. The South Down Assembly member cited as justification, "the apparent official representation of the Trust at yesterday's Gay Pride parade" as well as an article published recently in the Trust's magazine and events at Trust property Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk[/quote] No confirmation yet on whether the door hit his ass on the way out
[quote]The DUP has used the petition of concern voting mechanism to prevent its legalisation, despite a majority of Assembly members supporting the move the last time a vote was held. The party rejects any suggestion it is homophobic, insisting it is protecting the traditional definition of marriage.[/quote] "I'm not racist, I just don't trust them dark-skinned fellows, that's all."
[QUOTE]The DUP has used the petition of concern voting mechanism to prevent its legalisation, despite a majority of Assembly members supporting the move the last time a vote was held. The party rejects any suggestion it is homophobic, insisting it is protecting the traditional definition of marriage.[/QUOTE] Sounds more like the DUP exists in a limbo state of policy, detached from reality. "we're what you call [I]traditional progressives[/I]"
Hopefully the DUP will more and more be screwed for their homophobic views. I think it was great that Leo Varadkar was there at the Pride breakfast. Really puts the DUP in their place.
[quote]The party rejects any suggestion it is homophobic, insisting it is protecting the traditional definition of marriage.[/quote] Hey why don't you also respect your countries' tradition with [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)]potatoes[/url] and go die somewhere while the rest of the world moves forward.
[QUOTE=RetaDepa;52545581]Hey why don't you also respect your countries' tradition with [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)]potatoes[/url] and go die somewhere while the rest of the world moves forward.[/QUOTE] This joke is in such poor taste I'm not sure what to reply other than you kinda need to look at fact that, ya know, the majority of the island has gay marriage? :speechless:
[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;52545596]This joke is in such poor taste I'm not sure what to reply other than you kinda need to look at fact that, ya know, the majority of the island has gay marriage? :speechless:[/QUOTE] Can't be in poor taste if the poor weren't even able to taste anything back then.
[QUOTE=RetaDepa;52545605]Can't be in poor taste if the poor weren't even able to taste anything back then.[/QUOTE] Because the British exported all the food and refused to actually help, giving the Irish initially food that they couldn't cook, and then deciding to basically letting them die, forcing them to work for food in terrible, horrible working conditions, or forcing them to leave for America and other countries. Get the picture of why these types of jokes are kinda in poor taste?
[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;52545615]Because the British exported all the food and refused to actually help, giving the Irish initially food that they couldn't cook, and then deciding to basically letting them die, forcing them to work for food in terrible, horrible working conditions, or forcing them to leave for America and other countries. Get the picture of why these types of jokes are kinda in poor taste?[/QUOTE] ...hasn't it been long enough that it's not too soon anymore?
[QUOTE=AtomicSans;52546092]...hasn't it been long enough that it's not too soon anymore?[/QUOTE] I don't think so. The famine is still an incredibly sore point for many (including me) in Ireland. It doesn't feel right to really make jokes about it. It especially hurts when coming from someone who's not Irish, you know?
[QUOTE=AtomicSans;52546092]...hasn't it been long enough that it's not too soon anymore?[/QUOTE] This was still a really crap joke
[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;52546103]I don't think so. The famine is still an incredibly sore point for many (including me) in Ireland. It doesn't feel right to really make jokes about it. It especially hurts when coming from someone who's not Irish, you know?[/QUOTE]Literally everybody involved is dead now, how does it make any sense to still be upset
[QUOTE=AtomicSans;52546248]Literally everybody involved is dead now, how does it make any sense to still be upset[/QUOTE] Because of the wide ranging ramifications of what happened? The population of the island [I]still hasn't recovered.[/I] That's how much of an impact the event had on us. It's still relatively in living memory, especially considering that it caused literally a million to leave for different shores. It wasn't acknowledged for years the role the British government played through their malicious neglect and awful actions in the famine. It's possible the whole thing was a genocide for god's sake. It especially doesn't help with the suffering that was happening in Northern Ireland not even 30 years ago.
Why are yous talking about the famine, I've lived in Ireland my entire life and I've never met anyone that even remotely angry about it. It was a shite event but to say it was all the British doing is just oversimplfying the entire situation. Anyway, Jim Wells is one of many absolute cunts in NI that are hopefully the last of their kind. The pride events In NI have gained so much support from the past few years, I love how much it angers the DUP.
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