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Edwin Poots

This morning.

“People are listening to the biggest load of rubbish, and someone said to me the other day that everybody who has taken the vaccination will all be dead in three years, and this is the sort of nonsense that has been spread amongst a small cadre of people.

“But the outworking of that is that people who need cancer care in hospital and other major surgeries, life-saving surgeries, cannot get it because those beds are full of people who haven’t been vaccinated – the intensive care units are full of people not vaccinated.

“People need to catch themselves on and go and get the vaccination.

“It is not going to be some new world order thing, it’s something that has been worked out by hundreds of different scientists from different institutions across the world, and we need the vaccination to be rolled out to as many as possible.”

Edwin Poots, Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister and former DUP Leader.

Bout ye.

Vaccine conspiracy theorists should ‘catch themselves on’ – Poots (RTÉ)

Previously: No New World order, Says New World Order

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Meanwhile…

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Edwin Poots (left) and Sir jeffrey Donaldson

This afternoon.

Further to internal DUP shenanigans…

….Who succeeds Edwin Poots?

Via BBC NI Corresponednt Enda McLafferty:

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson will be the popular choice within the party.

He will be seen as the man who will possibly be able to heal some of the wounds that have been played out in public. That’s not to say that there will not be many who may feel uncomfortable with that, as not everyone voted for him in the recent leadership election.

There is a sense, though, that Sir Jeffrey will be coronated – it is unlikely that there will be a leadership contest.

DUP looking for new leader as Edwin Poots quits (BBC)

Meanwhile…

Earlier…

Earlier: A Limerick A Day

Tonight.

Government Buildings.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin hosts Democratic Unionist Party Leader Edwin Poots and DUP MLA Paul Given.

Earlier:

This evening.

Merrion Street, Dublin 2

Recently-elected leader of the DUP Edwin Poots takes a swipe at Tanaiste Leo Varadkar while addressing media outside Government Buildings ahead of his first meeting with Taoiseach Micheal Martin.

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Newly ratified DUP leader Edwin Poots at Dublin Castle last year

“They took photographs of blown up border posts to impose upon Northern Ireland people a harshest form of customs, and an internal market that doesn’t exist anywhere else in the world.

“They’re going to starve Northern Ireland people of medicines, no less, cancer drugs and other materials such as the food that’s on our table.

“And I’d say that’s a shame on the Irish Government that they done that. And that belongs to Fine Gael under the leadership of Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney. So relationships are really, really bad with the Irish Government as a consequence”

Edwin Poots

A promising start.

DUP leader Edwin Poots says Irish Government will ‘starve’ NI of medicine (RTE)

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Former NI Ministers Edwin Poots (top) and Nelson McCausland (bottom) ahem in today’s News Letter.

Poots and McCausland axed as Robinson moves to ‘settle things’ (Sam McBride, Belfast News Letter)

Previously: There’s Poots As Queer As Folk

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NI Health Minister Edwin Poots has defended his opposition to gay adoption and gay men donating blood in the Assembly today. Mr Poots denied he thought homosexuality was an illness, but said there were heterosexual men “who would desire lots of other folks. Those of us who are married shouldn’t be doing that. People can resist urges. And in terms of all of this I would just encourage people to take a sensible and rational view of these issues.”

“When it comes to adoption I’ve just come from an MLU, a Midwifery Lead Unit in Lagan Valley today and all of the people that were giving birth in that unit were women and all of those women would not have been impregnated by another woman.

“The natural order – whether one believes in God or whether one believes in evolution – is for a man and a woman to have a child and therefore that has made my views on adoption very clear and on raising children very clear, that it should be a man and a woman that raises a child.

“Now people can criticise me for that and they can challenge me for it and they can say it’s backward.

“The truth is that still today in this modern era it is only a man and a woman that can produce a child and therefore I think its in the best order for a man and a woman to raise a child.”


Edwin Poots defends stance on gay adoption (BBC News NI)

Previously: The Abominable No Man

James And The Gay Blood Ban

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NI Health Minister Edwin Poots has failed in his attempt to challenge the British Supreme Court’s ruling to grant adoption to gay couples in Northern Ireland. Currently, a single gay or lesbian person can adopt in Northern Ireland but a couple in a civil partnership cannot.

The Health Minister has also tried to prevent gay people from becoming blood donors. An online petition calling for his resignation currently has almost 8,500 signatures.

Supreme Court rejects Edwin Poots’ attempt to overturn court ruling in favour of gay adoption (Belfast Telegraph)

Previously: James And The Gay Blood Ban

Dope Springs Eternal

Because QUARES!

15/5/2013 eHealth Week 2013(NI Health Minister Edwin Poots centre, with Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Health Minister James Reilly)

The [Northern Ireland] health minister is set to take his fight against the extension of adoption rights to Northern Ireland’s gay and unmarried couples to the UK’s highest court.

Edwin Poots has been given leave by the Court of Appeal to appeal a ruling that the current ban on gay and lesbian couples adopting is unlawful.

…At present, a single gay or lesbian person can adopt children in NI, but a couple in a civil partnership cannot. The Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) said the ruling would bring NI into line with the rest of the UK.

Rainbow Project director, John O’Doherty said they were disappointed with the minister’s decision. “Both the High Court and the Court of Appeal have noted the practice of banning same-sex and unmarried couples from adopting is discriminatory,” he said. “Enough public money has been spent on this fool’s errand. The minister should focus his time on ensuring the best available homes for children in care in Northern Ireland.”

Gay and unmarried adoption battle set for Supreme Court (BBC News NI)

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