Former DUP SpAd. One third of @stormontsources - I frequently block people. Any views I express are my own and no one else’s
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Tim Cairns retweeted
Jun 12
This is me on this week's On The Spot Football podcast with Johnny McMurray. I'm talking about my book and all things Glentoran this century. Feel free to share this (please).
youtu.be/xnaXWjqvk5g?is=yyL4…
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Tim Cairns retweeted
"This is the provision that's in the legislation. This is the provision that can be used."
The debate over the Petition of Concern is back at Stormont.
With the DUP seeking support over amendments to the Justice Bill, questions are being asked about whether the mechanism should only be used for constitutional issues—or whenever parties believe it's necessary.
#Stormont #JusticeBill #NorthernIrelandPolitics
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Tim Cairns retweeted
Jun 12
Canada’s first World Cup game kicks off now in Toronto.
@CANMNT_Official, all of Canada is with you — to the final whistle.
Jun 12
The wait is over, Canada.
Our FIFA World Cup journey begins in Toronto against Bosnia and Herzegovina!
📺: @TSN_Sports, @CTV, @RDSca
#CANMNT #OurGameNow
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Jun 12
This looks fairly amazing!
Come on Canada! 🇨🇦
The nerves are real in our house! It’s poutine for dinner!
Jun 12
Canada’s March to the Match continues to work its way through the Toronto streets toward the stadiums.
Beautiful scenes as fans chant and cheer and high five fans who are lining the streets.
It’s going to be electric inside the stadium today.
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Jun 12
Thanks to Paul for taking this forward. These platforms have been responsible for a catalogue of misery and building/sustaining the infrastructure of human trafficking. This is an essential first step in ending pimping websites.
Jun 10
Part of my contribution at consideration stage of the Justice bill when I address my amendment on the prohibition of advertising for sexual services. This received the support of the assembly and is now contained within the Justice bill.
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Tim Cairns retweeted
Jun 11
Talking up my amendments to the justice bill that will make a positive difference to people’s lives here in Northern Ireland. Showing real leadership and using every opportunity I can to make our people and their children safer.
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Tim Cairns retweeted
Jun 12
"That does not happen in Westminster. That does not happen in Holyrood. That does not happen in the Senedd. That does not happen in the Dáil."
In this week's episode Tim argues that Northern Ireland has a deeper problem than political disagreement over the Good Jobs Bill.
"I think we've got a problem in our civil service. I think we've got a problem with the Legislative Council."
#Stormont #NorthernIrelandPolitics #GoodJobsBill
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Jun 12
Frankly this is appalling, but also a glimpse behind the curtain of a “new Ireland.” Noted
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Jun 11
I’m not sure any of the three red cards should have stood! This is a joke!
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Tim Cairns retweeted
Jun 11
🆕 Episode is live
This week we discuss the protests at Scarva last weekend.
The Good Jobs Bill, should SF compromise or have the DUP got it wrong?
🎧 Available now
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Tim Cairns retweeted
Jun 11
Belfast knife attack suspect Hadi Alodid was granted asylum under a fast-track application scheme introduced by two of Nigel Farage's senior colleagues. It meant he'd only to complete a Home Office questionnaire rather than attend a face-to-face interview. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
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Jun 11
This may be the least excited for a World Cup I’ve ever been. This 48 team thing is a nonsense.
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Tim Cairns retweeted
Jun 10
A really ominous sign about the capabilities of the PSNI, whose Chief Constable has for years been begging Stormont to properly fund it: Just hours after serious racist violence broke out, already the PSNI can't cope and is requesting mutual aid support from GB police forces.
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Tim Cairns retweeted
Jun 10
It’s worth noting that under the imminent plans proposed by Alliance, SDLP & Sinn Fein to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14, if a child one day below 14 burnt a house down the PSNI would not even be able to investigate them, as they would have not committed a crime.
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Tim Cairns retweeted
Pat Sheehan is accusing the Assembly Speaker of failing to act impartially.
"Independence doesn't mean unaccountability," he says, arguing that amendments rejected by the Speaker on issues including school uniforms and Mother and Baby Institutions legislation were largely those opposed by the DUP.
"This was the first time a Speaker had rejected amendments from a committee."
Full episode available now on Spotify.
#UKPolitics #SinnFéin #DUP
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Tim Cairns retweeted
Jim Gamble: Wrong question is being asked in criminal age of responsibility debate trib.al/FrS2PVg
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Jun 8
RT @duponline: Much has been said about Scarva.
DUP @carlalockhart MP, @JBuckleyMLA, @DianeForsytheNI & Councillors were on the ground, eng…
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"He's three people away from uniting that MLA team."
Tim Cairns says John Burrows could achieve something unionist leaders have struggled to do for decades, unite his party behind a single direction.
"Either it's going to be a master stroke, or it's going to be political folly."
#UKPolitics #SinnFéin #MLA
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