Interesting indeed, but not good. The entrenching of the DUP as the biggest party in NI can only lead to further provocation and resentment from both sides.

I fail to see how there could possibly be any further provocation or resentment from the Republican side.

Well they could start blowing things up again...

That's my point. They've made it very clear that they never have any intention of taking the blowing-things-up-and-shooting-people option off the table.

Maybe the republicans are pissed off because the British Army occupied Northern Ireland for years and essentially operated a policy of genocide on Catholics. That'd piss me off something rotten if I were a Tim.

You secretly enjoyed the DUP landslide, didn't you, you orange cunt?

That is very provocative, I agree, but it's still less so than going out and actually planting bombs.

Comrade Galloway,

The British Army are not as incompetent as you think, and they're very heavily armed. If they had pursued a policy of genocide against Catholics in NI, there wouldn't be any Catholics left here. Instead, there are more than there used to be.

You're also making the usual condescending mistake of thinking that Catholics are Republicans and that Republicans support the IRA. Neither is always true, and the people here get really pissed off with the lazy thinking of twonks like you. There are Republicans in my family, thanks very much, and they would, like most Republicans and Catholics, be very offended by your implication that their political aims in any way justify the actions of the fucking Ra.

Having lived in Glasgow for most of my adult life, I've developed a deep hatred of the Orange Order. Bizarre to find myself associated with them just because I dislike terrorists. Nothing secret about my beliefs: I'm a Unionist; I'm a republican with a small R, in that I want the Royals' constitutional power given to an elected authority (which puts me severely at odds with both the DUP and the UUP); I don't think Eire's significantly better than the UK, so don't see any real advantage to unification; I love Belfast, and think it'd be a shame to see it lose its capital status to Dublin, arguably the world's most overrated city. If I had voted, it probably would have been for the DUP simply because of their attitude to terrorists, but I didn't, because they're so crap in so many other ways. I'm not overjoyed at their win, but neither am I at all disappointed.

Oh, and fuck you.