Diane Dodds, DUP councillor on the Shankill Road, has reacted angrily to the decision to build a block of luxury flats in the area.
“We in the upper reaches of the DUP have spent years keeping loyalist people in poverty and ignorance, ” said Mrs Dodds, who was on the way to the bank to cash her husband’s first monthly pay packet of £9166.
“After all, this is the only way they’d believe that, despite all the social deprivation in the area, the most important thing in their lives is a having a British passport. And we’ve been laughing all the way to the ballot box, and the bank, ever since!”
“When they see how well off other people in Northern Ireland are, right on their own doorsteps, they might ask whether we should have been doing something more important over the last 30 years than stopping road signs going up in Irish. It must be stopped!” she concluded before speeding off to her own, non-working class, home.
Funny if it wasn’t so true. Two great posts and I appreciate balance in my satire. But then again our “leaders” are a never ending source of amusement. Worth the money just for the laughs.
More please…
I hope they stop trying to change the Shankill, it’s losing more and more of its spirit every day. At this rate the entire area will be reduced to generic rows of flats occupied by city workers, with no space left for the families who’ve been there years.
social housing is needed in this city at afordable prices. the city is being sold out to faceless capitalism, with greed and neo liberal economics replacing the troubles all wrapped up in a neat little bundle that the men on the hill call ‘progress.’ fucking cop out!
pikey