@common sense: Can’t be worse than the last 14. The conservatives are going to be wiped out. Maybe the conservatives will do a trump and deny the results.

@common sense: were you in a coma for the last 5 years? They’ve just broken their country with the worst government of all time over the last few years.

@common sense: labour are better….. in every way….. than torys. What on earth are you talking about?

@Alan: watch the conservatives defect to Reform party over the next few years if the conservative brand remains toxic. Reform will be Conservative2.0.

@common sense: You would wish more or the Tories on them?

@common sense: What’s the alternative, keep allowing those that caused the issues to be voted back in because they said they had a solution?
All “empires” eventually fall, today it’s Labours, but they too will fall eventually.

@Brian:
Working pretty hard to find a grievance there yourself Brian.

@Ben dover: we all know who’s living rent free here

@P. J.: Hardy.. If you think stating the obvious is hard work, I suggest you stay in bed..

@David Murray: 100%

@Ben dover: QED

@Ben dover: you left out ff and fg when it comes to sound bytes. There’s no one better for a good auld sound byte than ffg

@P. J.: Grievance or observation?

@David Murray: That is not the question

@David Murray: Why

@Gerald Kelleher: What is dismaying is your inability to comment on anything without bringing the weather into it ! As for the rest of your usual gibberish… Politics is a social activity.. only a moron would seek to detach politics and society.. or a dictator.. which one are you Gerald?

@Brian: ” I have duly received your favour concerning the busts & pictures I will put off till my return from America, all of them except Bacon, Locke and Newton, whose pictures I will trouble you to have copied for me: and as I consider them as the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception, and as having laid the foundations of those superstructures which have been raised in the Physical & Moral sciences, I would wish to form them into a knot on the same canvas, that they may not be confounded at all with the herd of other great men.” Thomas Jefferson

Equating Enlightenment politics with democracy is dangerous. To make Newton a great man means becoming a slave to the academic/political vehicle and now on display in the UK and America.

@Brian: it’s an AI bot

@Gerald Kelleher: 5 different British Taoisigh in 6 years? Max Plank is spinning in his grave!

@9QRixo8H: lol, if they didn’t get the €16 billion from Britain each year, things would be very, very different.

@Terry Molloy: The actual figure is around 9.5 billion, but don’t let facts get in the way of your BS.. to put this level of subvention into context..The northwest, which includes Cumbria and the Greater Manchester area, had the biggest (£20.2 billion) followed by the West Midlands (£15 billion), Wales (£13.5 billion) and Scotland (£13.5 billion). (UK’s Office for National Statistics ). What actually is your point?

@Brian: That’s for the spacer Captain Kirk.. don’t know why it was directed to the other spacer..

@Brian: Good statistics, a UK survey said that 75% of people don’t believe in statistics…

@Terry Molloy: You keep spouting BS .. I’ll keep spouting facts.. Clowns doing what clowns do best. Making fools of themselves..

@Brian: You might want to do those figures on a per capita basis, Manchester Greater Area will probably have 10 times the population of NI

@Paul O’Mahoney: It’s only twice my UK geography/demographic knowledge is poor and clearly incorrect, but per capita would probably be the better statistic to use

Additionally, economic output of those regions you mentioned would clearly be higher than NI. NI gdp is about 56bn stg Greater Manchester about 100bn .

@Paul O’Mahoney: You might want to do one Paul.. I won’t engage with people like you who claim to be ‘wealthy ‘ and hope the person you comment against / disagree with ‘dies in poverty.’ Your words . Verbatim. Despicable. So again .. do one . 1st and only time I will engage or respond to you.

@Brian: You have to know the facts before you can spout them. Some great verbals re’ clowning around. Legendary stuff. Here’s some facts to make it a bit easier. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/latest-figures-detail-uk-governments-record-funding-of-15-billion-a-year-for-the-northern-ireland-executive

@Brian: That’s fine with me, and I find your hypocrisy something that you need to work on.
On many occasions, you simply reduce your debate to petty little insults to other posters, name calling seems to be your modus operandi when you are challenged.
You post misinformation. You are blind to facts as those facts don’t fit your narrative and

@Paul O’Mahoney: And I’m not the only person who shares this view about you .

But you carry on with your righteous condemnation of others while you use the same methodology and hopefully you might find a fact that is actually a fact not an interpretation or more likely a lie.

@James T.Kirk: Watch yourself, he might not respond and call you names .

@Terry Molloy: Spelling, grammar and syntax seem to be beyond your comprehension.
At least Shinners know how to spell BORDER ffs.

@James T.Kirk: Good one. But the actual cost is 9.5 billion. You know NI generates revenue right? So that figure is not the cost to the exchequer. But nice try.

@Brian: in other words pipe down little man

@Fidgenti:Not really, just left behind by FFG after a stroke, no speech therapy etc, but I understand an a-hole when I read one

@Terry Molloy: Stay Stoic, Dude, my brother in law fell to the same and it’s very difficult without the help.

@Sean Money: it’ll be great final between Galway and Kerry.