How much will the DUP get to go along today?

pinnocchio

As title......

How much will the DUP extract to go along with this rumoured deal structure today?

I reckon it'll be £1bn per year (hidden structured as combined UK and EU support subsidies) as Arlene won't fall for the length of parliament manoeuvre again.

pinnocchio

The DUP will get nothing.

I expect Northern Ireland might get some additional spending though.

krish

If you really believe that good on you.

However, as it's the DUP who are negotiating the amount and the eventual disbursement lacks any real transparency then there's just far far too much opportunity for quid pro quo deals.

If you don't think dark money deals, that we see happening in the US and saw happening during the Brexit campaign, can't happen in Northern Ireland then that's pretty surprising.

Dirty politics happens everywhere.

pinnocchio

The disbursement is overseen by Westminster, pending the restoration of the Stormont assembly.

It will be fully reported. It will also be subject to review by the National Audit Office.

                                                                                                                                                                                                        About us-                                                                                                        National Audit Office is the UK public auditor. We audit central government accounts and report on value for money issues.                                                                                                                                                                                                        www.nao.org.uk

pinnocchio

The double standards over the DUP's stance on NI being in step with the UK on Brexit but out of step on abortion and marriage, is fudgeing shameful
- so what are the chances of a political bribe to hand back abortion and marriage laws to the assembly even if it doesn't reconvene by Monday? (or a cynical brief reconvening, if that's even possible, recognised)

pinnocchio

Your faith in the systems that are supposed to work is really quite quaint.

Given the oversight mechanisms you seem to trust in, could you perhaps explain how this happened and wasn't 'picked up' till it hit the news.

Boris Johnson, his buddy and a boatload of public money

IronGiant

What are you saying hasn't been picked up?

No wrongdoing has been proven that I can see.

pinnocchio

“Poor are those who have eyes but cannot see... ☥”

Luis Marques

IronGiant

Cool quote bro.

So what wrongdoing was that again?

pinnocchio

Squiffy

I really don't know if you do this deliberately or subconsciously, but it makes having any debate with you pointless as instead of addressing the issues you continually look to deflect, divert and drive the debate into minutiae that bears no resemblance to the material issues.

If you want to look at what the wrongdoing was, then google is your friend, do the work yourself and then try to formulate an objective viewpoint that at least is open to the possibility what was done was likely criminal or at the very least a conflict of the rules.

Notwithstanding that, the material point in the first couple of postings was to the DUP using this as an opportunity to 'extort' more money from UK taxpayers to their benefit.

If you really believe that the NAO have the wherewithal to micro manage every single disbursement made rather then at best a perfunctory, top level, view of what's actually happened, then you don't understand that politics isn't about finding the truth, it's about avoiding the blame when the truth comes out.

If you don't think the DUP have form for misappropriation on a massive scale read this

Renewable Heat Incentive scandal - Wikipedia

I won't bother replying to any more of your posts in this thread as I honestly believe it would just be a waste of my time.