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So as speculation mounts that Peter Robinson won’t be the First Minister and leader of the DUP for much longer. The 64,000 dollar question is who will replace him? A lot of people seem to think former finance minister Sammy Wilson is in with a shout. Sammy is a colourful politician and his personal life would make many a born again Christian blush. A particular incident involving Sammy was when his holiday snaps were plastered all over the Sunday World one weekend. The photos featured Sammy getting back to nature with a busty young woman. Still I am sure as many in the DUP are well known for there forgiving and understanding nature this should not be a problem.
So if Sammy is not going to be leader who is? Arlene Foster has a lot of fans but she is a defector from the UUP and is unlikely ever to be a MP unless she is parachuted into another constituency. Jeffrey Donaldson well his star has fallen in recent years by getting himself mixed up in the Westminister expenses scandal by expecting the taxpayer to fund his hotel movie watching.
What the DUP really need is a hardliner as leader somebody who has been in the party during good times and bad. Somebody who is above personal scandal either sexual or financial. May I suggest one man fits the bill perfectly. His name is Gregory Campbell.
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Hoboroad,
Excellent suggestion! Also I enjoyed that read 🙂
I’d really enjoy the wonderful Gregory getting the job…….
The main man on SOT, FDM (yup, I have a blog crush on his writing, I’ll admit it!) noted something when someone suggest aul Gregory; don’t be greedy, we have it good enough as it is with Robbo, TV Mike, Jim and his executive officer Vance, it’s a dream team already!
Gregory Campbell as the DUP leader and Joint First Minister would be manna sent from Republican heaven 😉
I’m going to use a process of elimination on this one. Dodds? Nope, he could well be sunk in the next Westminster elections and the DUP would need a leader who is not double jobbing. That and he looks like he prefers the scene over in SW1H as opposed to up on the Hill.
McCrea? Nope. Ian Og? Don’t think so, too prickly even by DUP standards. Arlene? Nah, she’s a woman and ex-UUP to boot though stranger things have happened. She would make it to the ‘maybe’ pile.
Donaldson? He supported the Maze project so that’s a black spot against his name and of all of the ex-UUP ones he has the least gravitas tbh.
Gavin Robinson? Too young and not an MLA but one to watch for the future perhaps.
Gregory? Only if they really want to shoot themselves in the foot. If he or Nelson McCausland becomes leader of the DUP then I am certain Connolly House is in fact in charge of the DUP as there is no way in hell that the DUP would want to implode and move that far to the stupid, head in the sand, pretending to be an ostrich, right; it would mean that I am in fact dead, that I am in some kind of hell or parallel universe and that some deity or whatever is taking the hand out of me. I will stop to read newspapers as it is obvious that what I am being fed is a massive hoax, it would not be real.
HAHA! 🙂
That last paragraph I was being deadly serious. If either of those two get made the leader of the DUP I will know that I in fact died on my flight home, that this is not reality and that some cruel joke or something is being played on me. It’s basically ‘The Third Policeman’ or ‘Lost’ for me and it was nice knowing you all.
Also, shameless plug time, Cleenish has a new post in the series, this time on Sinn Fein. All comments are more than welcome folks! wp.me/p1eiVW-on
Sammy=Boris Johnson
Arlene=Theresa May
No mention of Ruth, I mean she is still in the party were in any other country/dimension/dream she would have been ejected within 2 minutes of her facebook rant. Not to mention the fact she seems to be the fleggers poster girl and those (literally dozens) votes seem to be what the DUP want these days!!! With that attitude I dont know why the DUP just dont disband and join the new slick electoral force that is The Protestant Coalition
Sammy Wilson is certainly an intelligent person with a good level of eloquence. His speeches in the HoC are pretty impressive. Did you see him in the Syria debate?