From top: Oliver Cromnwell (left), Boris Johnson; Fine Gael Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment Richard Bruton and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphries at Dublin Castle this afternoon
Irish Ministers @HHumphreysFG and @RichardbrutonTD distance themselves from comments made by Michael D’Arcy who compared Boris Johnson to Oliver Cromwell. pic.twitter.com/1yseo5q6nu
— Cate McCurry (@CateMcCurry) August 29, 2019
This afternoon.
Further to yesterday’s tweet by Minister of State Michael D’Arcy that Boris Johnson’s decision to seek a suspension of the House of Commons was the “most anti-democratic” decision by a prime minister since Oliver Cromwell established a “protectorate government” in the 1600s.
Ireland’s business minister Heather Humphreys said: “First of all, minister D’Arcy has removed that tweet. As far as we are concerned, we are not going to comment on internal British politics.”
The Irish communications Richard Bruton, another member of the Fine Gael party, said: “We are not going to get involved in British politics because they have a lot of decisions to make.”
Earlier: A Limerick A Day
“First of all, minister D’Arcy has removed that tweet. As far as we are concerned, we are not going to comment on internal British politics.” (?) FIRST of all Heather, removing tweets that have already been seen and reported on doesn’t mean they didn’t happen. As far as I’M Concerned.. you-a-stupid !
Michael D’Arcy – what that American lad you had on yesterday might accurately call a “boob”
Cromwell is a hero to many Brits and with many holding out for a strongman, comparing Bojo to Cromwell just plays into their hands as well as telling the Brits that we Irish hate Bojo’s guts. Eejit.
Of less fleeting interest though is the 40,000-member Momentum movement (part of the Labour party) has called for “street protests and road blockades to stop what it calls a coup.”
Road blockades will trigger a policing response which will trigger rioting which will trigger looting. Coming to you this Saturday in Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield and York [and, I’ll bet, Birmingham and Cardiff]
Don’t forget Belfast!! Those lads will riot at the opening of an envelope.
There is a tiny Labour party in Northern Ireland, not sure Momentum have any NI members.
But I can imagine the resumption of civil war if there is a pro-democracy rally in Belfast. Frankly, after the unlawful deployment of Border Force at Central railway station last weekend, it mightn’t be such a bad thing to let the PSNI clearly know that there are problems.
Momentum are Marxist thugs – cowardly Corbyns little army of fascists
Also, in the pic above, how can loss-making RTE afford two microphones when Virgin and Newstalk only have one. Is this because loss-making RTE has one political journalist for every minister [33 in total]?
Because RTE has to record everything in English and Irish? (seriously).
You’ll have fun getting any Irish out of Heather and poor Dickie is a royalist to the core.
after everything the RTE secret producer revealed, I’m not surprised.
there may even be a third waiting in the wings getting time and a half in case a wrist gets tired.
TV and Radio separately?
Redundancy. You use two in case one packs in at a key moment. Highly unlikely but it does happen.
Despite its two microphones, a Google search for news “Michael Darcy Cromwell” in the past 24 hours shows news results for the Irish Times, Indo, BelTel, London Indo and a host of other news sites which Michael is correctly shown as “Michael D’arcy” [apostrophe between “D” and “a”]
BUT
nothing on RTE. There is an online RTE story but you have to be very specific about searching for Michael *D’arcy* and I don’t think RTE news on either radio or TV is reporting this story.
Is RTE putting on the Green Jersey to suppress a story that’s embarrassing for Ireland? Not at all, it’s more fake news for RTE like its omission in reporting the publication of the National Broadband Plan report on Tuesday. However, as we are now learning, RTE doesn’t regard the non-reporting of something as fake news even when all rival domestic and many international media organisations are publishing it.
Why is RTE being so sucky towards this government and Richard Bruton? You mean the government and Richard Bruton without whose intervention RTE won’t financially last another 18 months? It’s not exactly a headscratcher, is it.
Cromwell
Well D’Arcy you just made the DUP’s day
Ur’Leen will be promising you a Baron of something
So that’s what Ivanka McEntee does.
Leaving Stan and Ollie out of it, I can’t decide if it’s because most Ministers look completely clapped out or that so many journalists look about 12, that produces such a startling contrast
“..because most Ministers look completely clapped out..”
that’s what years of comfortable trough dwelling will do to ya
on the business itself…
stupid emotive commentary like this all plays into their hands & I’d say a lot worse is to come…
I think Dominic Cummings is constructing a chaos situation which will serve Bojo & Rees-1837 very very well & everyone is falling for it.
Stan and Ollie
I swear lads
I haven’t laughed around here so much since
I dunno
give me an idea
fair play D’Arcy in fairness
Surprise, surprise. Daw jawed politician makes a comment equivalent to their low intellectual ability. Elect stupid people, expect stupid prizes.
In the meantime, Ireland moves closer towards no deal Brexit without any Irish Government formulated plan , even though they have known that this would be the outcome. But Varadkar and the rest of his merry band of incompetents are so busy reading from the EU prepared script, they don’t care about any of that. It doesn’t effect them and even if they were well intentioned, they lack the actual brain power and skill to actually formulate a plan. Pathetic.
Thanks, Ron. That’s us told. Again. And again.
Well the Irish electorate elected him. That’s what they voted for. That level of intellectual sludge. That’s the type of people you are
Spot on
there’s only one thing for it ron – you’re going to have to run for election yourself. it’s the only way. I can even see your posters now – you and leo in a remake of when ted kicks bishop brennan up the @rse.
i hear the money’s good too.
what about it ron?
This is it Scottie
The Writ for four by-elections has to be moved any day now
Is it € 500 and a few signatures to get on the ballot
What’s obvious in all of this is, is that not one of our TDs have a clue about
– what’s coming down the line
– how to deal with it
They could hide behind gallant phrases such as ‘cast iron’ ‘bulletproof’ for a year. Now that it’s coming to a head, what we have is our foreign minister visiting smaller EU countries and begging them to ‘pretty please’ support good old Ireland, as he sees the big boys get the ‘for sale’ signs printed up. No sign of Varadkar.
All the hallmarks of FF when the scheisse hit the fan a decade ago. Missing in action. Summer holidays.
We’re going where the sun shines brightly
We’re going where the sea is blue.
We’ve all seen it on the movies,
Now let’s see if it’s true.