DUP MPs warn Brexit talks could endanger party's deal with Tories

[Denzil_DC]

1. Well, that would be an awful shame.

Have they actually got the £1 billion they were promised yet? Last I heard, they hadn't and it was being challenged in court, could even have to be voted through parliament at some unspecified date in the future.

You should always get that sort of thing in writing, preferably in (somebody else's) blood, suckers.

BTW, I didn't think this was worth an OP, but I guess it's related:

Ireland's govt 'told to ignore Boris Johnson' by Foreign Office

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Sky News has learnt that Foreign Office officials told Ireland's Government "not to listen to whatever he had to say" ahead of Mr Johnson's visit to Dublin a few weeks ago.

Extraordinarily, officials in Whitehall were very open with their counterparts in the Irish capital to "ignore the public utterances" of Britain's chief diplomat.

Mr Johnson visited Dublin on 17 November to meet with Simon Coveney, Ireland's foreign minister and now also deputy prime minister, for Brexit discussions ahead of next month's critical European Council summit in Brussels.

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Ahead of the visit, Irish officials were told "not to mind a word of what he says" - implying the Foreign Secretary was not speaking on behalf of the UK Government.

https://news.sky.com/story/irelands-govt-told-to-ignore-boris-johnson-by-foreign-office-11150411

A Foreign Office spokesperson denies it happened, as does the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, so either Sky News is making things up or there's some deep counter-briefing going on.