Along with death and taxes, life has only one other certainty: the DUP will never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Fresh from insulting Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in the annual St Patrick’s Day Washington jamboree as a man who needs to ‘read a history book’, the DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has now antagonised Downing Street, the EU, the Irish Government, of course, and President Joe Biden by his rejection of the Windsor Framework. Quite an achievement.
The ugly Irish DUP cousins have ruined Biden’s parade with their stone wall refusal to go along with the show
In the American polity, Ireland, and St Patrick’s Day, is a positive brand, not just the feast day of a small nation. The Irish Taoiseach, whoever she or he is, handing over the bowl of shamrock in the Oval Office is as regular a fixture in the White House calendar as the annual pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey.
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