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Thread: Unionists 'to withdraw from District Policing Partnership'

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    Unionists 'to withdraw from District Policing Partnership'

    Unionist members of Belfast District Policing Partnership have withdrawn in protest at the police handling of recent violence in loyalist areas.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/nort ... 251370.stm

    The city councillors and members of the DPP who put their names to the unionist statement were Robin Newton, Elaine McMillan and Ruth Patterson, DUP; Ulster Unionists David Brown and Jim Rodgers; Independent Unionist Frank McCoubrey and Hugh Smyth, Progressive Unionist Party.

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    Would now be the opportune moment for Sinn Fein to join the Policing Board?
    "Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Batman
    Would now be the opportune moment for Sinn Fein to join the Policing Board?
    No chance, the SDLP must be feeling very lonely at these meetings now as their about the only party present.

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    Quote Originally Posted by padraig
    Quote Originally Posted by Batman
    Would now be the opportune moment for Sinn Fein to join the Policing Board?
    No chance, the SDLP must be feeling very lonely at these meetings now as their about the only party present.
    When will Sinn Fein join?
    "Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Batman
    Quote Originally Posted by padraig
    Quote Originally Posted by Batman
    Would now be the opportune moment for Sinn Fein to join the Policing Board?
    No chance, the SDLP must be feeling very lonely at these meetings now as their about the only party present.
    When will Sinn Fein join?
    When hell freezes over

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    In Adams-speak that can be interpreted as within the next 6-12 months.
    "I hereby declare that the Continuity Executive and the Continuity Army Council are the lawful Executive and Army Council respectively of the Irish Republican Army, and that the governmental authority, delegated in the Proclamation of 1938, now resides in the Continuity Army Council, and its lawful successors."

    Comdt. General Thomas Maguire

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    Quote Originally Posted by Risteard
    In Adams-speak that can be interpreted as within the next 6-12 months.
    Risteard, you can interpret that in any way you wish, as you normally do anyway.

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    History shall prove me right.
    "I hereby declare that the Continuity Executive and the Continuity Army Council are the lawful Executive and Army Council respectively of the Irish Republican Army, and that the governmental authority, delegated in the Proclamation of 1938, now resides in the Continuity Army Council, and its lawful successors."

    Comdt. General Thomas Maguire

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    Quote Originally Posted by Risteard
    History shall prove me right.
    Is that the Risteard/RSF version of history, or the real world version.

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    Well we shall see when the Provos join up to the RUC Board.
    "I hereby declare that the Continuity Executive and the Continuity Army Council are the lawful Executive and Army Council respectively of the Irish Republican Army, and that the governmental authority, delegated in the Proclamation of 1938, now resides in the Continuity Army Council, and its lawful successors."

    Comdt. General Thomas Maguire

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