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\"\"<\/a>DUP\/SF: Strange Bedfellow’s: Billy Joe\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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If it’s not Parading Issues it’s Educational Bills.\u00a0 If it’s not Victim’s Rights it’s the MLK shambles. There’s flags, and culture and shared space and Spad’s and spats and all sorts of shenanaigans between the two most powerful political parties in Northern Ireland.\u00a0 It’s generally a case of -“you say Tomato, I say tomato”-and if we didnt know any better we would think that both parties actually had a dislike for each other.\u00a0 On the one hand we have a political machine who have powered their way to the top and brushed all nationalist opposition aside in the process.\u00a0 In the wake of the Hunger Strikes of 1981 and the reconstruction of the Sinn Fein movement that would pave the way to Irish unification in record time it is ironic that this parties current suichan na cumhacta<\/em> seems to be at BT4 3EX–and with no apparent sign of relocation.
\nOn the other hand we have in many ways another powerful machine who have muscled their way to the pinnacle as far as “unionist” votes go-by hook or by crook.\u00a0 Along the way they have bulldozed aside the mostly puny opposition and have usurped and cajoled as they went. The only thing that hasnt changed about this party in their forty odd years of existence is their willingness to treat the\u00a0working class electorate with absolute disdain and disrespect.
\nBoth parties are extremely well matched.\u00a0 Both have a ruling junta that controls and manipulates the minions and equally have a win at all costs manifesto.\u00a0 Public opinion is lost on both amidst their arrogant supremacy.\u00a0 Both are dogmatic in their assertions but with the added proviso that their disciples not only believe–but that they believe what THEY want them to believe.
\nThis poem aptly describes this unholy alliance and goes some way to illustrating their conniving ways.<\/p>\n

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A Lovely Shade of Khaki.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Vibrant hues\u2014views from two sides\u2014once a million miles apart<\/strong>
\nTones garish in their stance\u2014reluctant to depart<\/strong>
\nAttitudes entrenched\u2014centuries in the making and staining <\/strong>
\nThose disciples \u2013with discolouration of the heart.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A new alliance\u2014an association with an underlying pact<\/strong>
\nDefraud the five eighths and withhold from them the facts<\/strong>
\nPainting pretty portraits with their broad and ample brush<\/strong>
\nAnd glossing over a canvas to conceal their filthy tracks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Orange—men and women immersed in a self made mix<\/strong>
\nOf distrust and hatred and disdain for those of a different shade<\/strong>
\nAnd Green\u2014equally as disparaging\u2014who treat tradition with contempt,<\/strong>
\nAnd feign an interest in anything that is opposition made.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The blend–a tertiary concoction\u2014an unpalatable tone<\/strong>
\nA dull and tedious tinge manufactured for themselves alone<\/strong>
\nDirty brown in colour–mucky in texture\u2014unpleasant to the touch<\/strong>
\nRepellent to the thinking man who won\u2019t be thrown a bone.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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