Edwin Poots resigns as DUP leader after 21 days

[muriel_volestrangler]

Poots quit on Thursday night after just 21 days in the job, the latest drama in a leadership meltdown in Northern Ireland’s biggest party that could sink the power-sharing assembly at Stormont.
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The humiliating fall throws into doubt a deal on Irish language legislation announced earlier on Thursday. The deal was designed to defuse a stalemate with Sinn Féin and allowed Poots’s protege, Paul Givan, 39, to become Northern Ireland’s youngest ever leader on Thursday.
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With the DUP riven by in-fighting and blame over the Irish Sea border, Poots wished to resolve the stalemate at Stormont and avert an early election. However, most of the party’s assembly members and peers opposed the language deal in a stormy meeting on Thursday morning.

Poots ignored the revolt and nominated Givan, allowing the executive and assembly to resume business, but the party summoned Poots to a meeting at party HQ later on Thursday.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/17/edwin-poots-resigns-as-dup-leader-after-21-days

So he actually managed to do something constructive, so the party told him he'd have to go.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Poots... snicker.

[T_i_B]

2. He's loonier than you realise

https://www.democraticunderground.com/108820549

Not sure who will replace him though. Don't put it past the DUP to elect somebody even loonier.

[Soph0571]

4. This is a doozy

I think they will go the Donaldson route - although the way they are behaving at the moment - Jim Wells or Sammy Wilson... Heh

[Soph0571]

3. Fucking hell

Good - he is a nasty fucker

But fucking hell

Collapse of the assembly in 3..2...1