DUPleaderthreatenstopullsupportforMayoverspecialNIdeal

Darren Haveron: Come on, Arlene, come on. You can’t pick and choose your unionism. Same rights as the UK, but no equal marriage or abortion? The DUP’s ‘king-maker’ status as part of the UK Government prop-up is related to every issue. Failure to create a special customs deal with the Republic is another narrow-minded view. If the DUP want a hard UK Brexit and UK legislation, why not adopt all UK legislation? Time to wake up. Ciaran Miskimmon: Cherry-picking their unionist ideologies. Standard DUP.

Kenneth Allen: So many people on here don’t know the difference between an issue being devolved to Northern Ireland and a situation where something is legislated differently from the UK without the involvement of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Sean McNally: Semantics and banal adherence doesn’t change the ethical hypocrisy of it, given that they want no divergence from the UK, yet are already different in innumerable areas.

Kenneth Allen: They are using the system. Just like any party would.

Kurtis Alexander Johnston: Oh, well. That makes all the corruption okay, then. What is everyone so upset about?

Georgie Clawson: Call Arlene’s bluff, Mrs May. If the UK is forced to an early election and, as is likely, Corbyn forms a Labour government, the DUP could find itself part of Dail Eireann much sooner than it anticipates.

Kenneth Allen: The problem of this threat for Arlene is that Corbyn would do the same. So, if getting a hard Brexit without an Irish Sea border is off the table, then the DUP, rather than threatening to bring May down if they do not get included in a UK solution, should advocate the softest of Brexits, or no Brexit at all, to protect the Union that matters.

Deborah Boyd: Arlene would find herself trying to deal with Jeremy Corbyn? Don’t think so.

Christina Murdoch: How are the DUP’s threats towards the Prime Minister not seen as examples of the bullying and harassment that Theresa May is determined to see stamped out of politics?