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@newsoncool @uuponline @JonBurrowsMLA @jamesgould23 Et tu Brute!

⁉️🗣NEW: 'Doug Beattie is an exceptional politician. I will respect a selection process. All organisations change.' 🎥🎤@uuponline leader @JonBurrowsMLA speaking to Chief Reporter @jamesgould23. 🗳He was addressing reports that former party leader and Upper Bann MLA @BeattieDoug could be deselected when his constituency association meets to choose its candidate for the next Assembly election. It’s understood ABC councillor Kyle Savage could be selected to run, with the meeting expected to take place in early July. Mr Burrows says change must happen in every organisation and made clear the selection process must be respected, internal and transparent. He said he would not be making any further comment on the process. Mr Beattie became leader of the Ulster Unionist Party in 2021 and resigned in 2024 after issues with party officers. He is a decorated British Army veteran and was awarded the Military Cross.

@News_Letter Give-in Gavin at it again!

Editorial: ​DUP is right to admit Stormont ‘Safeguarding the Union’ deal was over-sold and help form part of new coalition against Irish Sea border trib.al/guLHUc5

@RafeAnstruther @mclaren_linzi So the political journalist made it all up?

@mclaren_linzi A lot of uninformed nonsense being written here about a non-story. Selection of candidates is yet to happen and the final choice is for the constituency association.

Not what I expected to wake up to this morning. Utter madness.The biggest message yet if we were in any doubt of direction of the party. Chambers too, but at 77, refusing to step aside.I'm seeing unionist panic...there will be pacts galore to prevent the change that people want.

@PaddyShanks @hampton_alan The rot is not the structure, it's the mindset.

@hampton_alan Totally agree, the rot to the general unionist political structure started with Paisley undermining O'Neill, and increased to where we are today.

Time for the three main unionist parties to start discussing biting of the co-operative bullet, maybe even considering an amalgamation under the original Ulster Unionist Party name. Be brave, there are always various strands of thought in every successful political party. Personal pride might suffer but Northern Ireland's position in the UK may well benefit in the end.

@liamgallagher @gerardzbrainrot You'd have got a game about 4 weeks ago, but not so much now. Thanks for the offer but!

@gerardzbrainrot How you feeling about us possibly playing Celtic park

BTW, HE'S NOT OMNIPRESENT.

@mclaren_linzi UUP elected an unelected as leader, someone who failed to be elected as deputy, and de-select someone who was elected, and a leader. You gotta laugh but!

My reaction to Keir Starmer's last ditch press conference - an unsurprising reaction but possibly a helpful one (at least to those who, like me, consider him an abysmal PM). Like many, I approached Keir Starmer's prime ministership with deep-seated pessimism, my expectations already set at rock bottom. Yet, I confess: I failed to foresee the clinical precision with which he and his inner cabal would sabotage their own administration and scar Britain. The crux of their debacle lay, first, in a distinctly dictatorial, authoritarian reflex. And second—crucially—in a seething contempt for those who lent them their votes, while simultaneously performing a grotesque pantomime of flattery toward those who never would, and never will, support them. Having exorcised from the Labour Party its most authentic voices—people of unimpeachable integrity, such as Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, a purge that eluded even Tony Blair’s repertoire—Starmer embarked on a rampage: He slashed disability benefits; armed and fed intelligence to the Israeli government as it executed genocide in Gaza; channeled his own inner Farage, perhaps his inner Enoch Powell, to vilify migrants and treat refugees as vermin; gutted international aid to masquerade as a defender of defence spending; bulldozed wildlife and their habitats; unveiled a new lexicon of draconian anti-protest laws; left trans people suspended in legal limbo; clung with religious fervour to absurd, socially ruinous fiscal rules; allowed Rachel Reeves to squander £100 billion covering the Bank of England’s outrageous and wholly unnecessary Quantitative Tightening losses—a gift that keeps giving to the City’s banks—while imposing yet another round of austerity on government departments and public services. Once the great hope of the downtrodden, Starmer’s Labour has become the villain - the genuinely nasty party. Once a human rights lawyer, he has single-handedly plunged Britain into a shoddy, incompetent authoritarianism. theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

@newsoncool @duponline @GRobinsonDUP Give-in Gavin.

⁉️🗳NEW: 'I guarantee unionism will win the next election. I can write a list of seats where unionist cooperation would see more returned.' 🎥@duponline Leader @GRobinsonDUP says he guarantees that if unionism “works together”, it will win on a scale that “cannot be ignored.” 🎤He told Chief Reporter @jamesgould23 there must be a willingness among parties to cooperate, and once again made clear he is open to that. Reform UK has made major gains at the expense of Labour in the English council elections. There are pro-independence parties in power in Scotland with the SNP, and Plaid Cymru in Wales. Gavin Robinson dismissed the republican movement in the UK, saying it was not a vote for independence, but rather a protest vote against Labour.

@News_Letter No give-in Gavin?

Unionist politicians launch national cross-party anti-Protocol group critical of Stormont deal - backed by key DUP figures trib.al/9Sk7iKV

@ClaireHanna Hope you're not talking about me! Hmm.. never thought that's a sentence I would utter.

Last year I called for review & renewal of policing. I was attacked, with completed unfounded spin, by someone who now professes blindness to any sexism in the PSNI. Those of us who genuinely believe in & support PSNI must review with honesty & support real organisational change

@ukrealityguru @mstewart_23 Your grammar in this tweet is appalling, one might even say pig shit thick!

@mstewart_23 Michael you are pig shit thick, below average football pundit. Don't try talk about economics when you would struggle to spell it.

Andrew how does Westminster fill the black hole when it has a rather large black hole itself? Do you accept Westminster is largely responsible in creating Scotlands so-called deficit?

@mstewart_23 You'll not get an answer to your questions from him 😁, a bag of wind!

@SmythAngus @niamh_journo A bit like Mourning Glory imdb.com/title/tt384898…

@niamh_journo There’s wee men and women I knew went to every funeral to get a good feed

You cannot bate the Tae and sandwiches at an Irish wake bai

@spectator In fairness, he would recognise a useful idiot.

‘We are, to the US, useful idiots who can be commandeered to spill our blood in the pursuit of lost causes but are to be despised for our antiquity and pretensions to being a major power.’ Subscribe to read more.

@MrsRoyKeaneo @Aku_700 @Karen08051451 Lethal injection tomorrow would be too quick.

@Aku_700 @Karen08051451 Just take it out the back and put it down. Save the taxpayers a fortune.

🚨Long Island Child Therapist Pleads Guilty to Distributing Videos of Infants Being Raped Renee Hoberman, a children’s therapist on Long Island, just pleaded guilty to uploading, receiving, and trading videos of babies and kids getting raped. She admitted to sharing disgusting videos that showed tiny infants tied down and brutally raped by adult men while the babies screamed and cried in agony. This evil woman worked directly with children every single day as a so-called “therapist.” She now faces up to 20 years in prison. Pure evil. A total monster who betrayed every kid she was supposed to help.

@Timetogo105 @MLAsAndTheLike Nah, it's all about him. See how much he's in the picture, he speaks, he is the story? You don't see the narrator in similar documentaries. Constant 'I know I gave them a hard time previously.....'.

@MLAsAndTheLike To be fair, much as I loathe the fat cunt, the series is very impressive.

'When I was filming 'Peelers' over two years ...' is something Radio Ulster listeners are going to be hearing a LOT in the future

@naomi_long What would really matter would be if those who 'erred' are held accountable. How can some evade justice?

Today, our thoughts are with Katie Simpson and her family. The report is a hard read, but it shows clearly where things went wrong. Now, what will really matter is the change that it makes to the system. I hope this will be a lasting legacy for Katie and her family.

@SorchaEastwood There was a bigger story on your doorstep yesterday that should have been more of a priority to comment on. A dereliction of duty you say?

These people are in North Shields where my stepdad is from. But people like them are in Lagan Valley and right across the UK. Proud people, who came from nothing, worked all their lives and have been cowed and beaten down by a system that has left them with nothing. This is not right. Left to survive on benefits due to ill-health because they've worked themselves to the bone and still got nothing to show for it. Proud business owners shutting up shop and dreams ending. This Government has exacerbated the cost of living crisis. How? Through repeatedly ignoring the damage their economic policies are doing. Bungs to the rich and powerful, poverty for everyone else. It is a dereliction of duty. Something has got to change. Kudos to @DanielHewittITV for this report.

@GarethBurns18 @MatthewOToole2 @davidadams10 I don't believe you understand the feeling within CNR. Anything that is seen as a 'concession' to them must be opposed. There literally is no point carrying in this way. There has to ge an alternative.

@MatthewOToole2 @davidadams10 Trying to out-Jude Jude Collins.

This is a genuinely disgraceful thing to say days after the Dunmurry attack. Abandoning this place to London rule won't hasten unity but it will punish ordinary people for DUP/SF failure.

@PottsPol75399 @timcairns Our uns' problems are themmuns fault ! Make it Make sense.

@timcairns The media will milk the tits off this story from now until July 12th, Irish fascist politicians will hand wring their way through it, republican 'commentators', the Army Council's Joy Division, will get acres of print out of it and ... same time NEXT year?

What happened to all those promises last summer that the media wouldn’t give up on this story after the bonfire? That they would fight until a community didn’t face an asbestos threat? About as empty as I suspected they would be….but bonfires, condemning young people from loyalist areas, the media excel at that “Show leadership” is the cry of some politicians. Where was the leadership in council getting on site removing the material and billing the owner? Nah just another summer of same auld guff