DUP could ruin NI and the "Mainland" also the Republic of Ireland .

It has some how been overlooked that Northern Ireland voted to REMAIN  in the EU Referendum.

But you could be forgiven for forgetting this as the Media concentrate on the DUP who promote a Hard Brexit even though they do not speak for the Majority

Indeed as the result there became clear In Northern Ireland, First Minister Arlene Foster said that as a leader of unionism, she felt it was the right decision.

"We are now entering a new era of an even stronger United Kingdom," she said.

"We campaigned to leave the EU. This is the democratic decision of the people of the UK. This is a UK-wide decision and every vote is equal within the UK. I am proud of the fact that this decision was taken by the people."

The first minister said she would be working for "the best possible exit negotiation"

Since then it often appears that she is the only politician from the Six Counties who has any say.

Since then as the issue of the British Boarder on the Island of Ireland has come to prove a major obstacle in the Brexit negotiations , she has opposed a separate solution to the Boarder problem and insist the Six Counties have exactly the same deal (or no deal as seems likely) and an eventual hard boarder.

What ever  you think of Mrs May's latest Brexit proposal , it  would appear that she is prepared to vote against it on the grounds that the electorate there are not being treated the same as that of the "Mainland" (Ireland is also a Mainland mind)  even if  such an agreement benefits the people Ms Foster represents.

In that she resembles someone on the Titanic who refuses palace on the lifeboat, not out of honour or bravery , but because its full of third class passengers.

However Political Betting may be right, when they say....

The assumption that the DUP will automatically oppose TMay’s Brexit deal might not be the case as pressure is building up amongst the Province’s farmers many of whom support the party.The Observer is reporting that the powerful Northern Ireland Farmer’s Union has told Arlene Foster’s party that its 10 Westminster MPs should vote for the deal. The report goes on:

“The DUP has threatened to pull the plug on May and vote against the withdrawal agreement on the grounds it would create a “vassal state” and break up the UK.But the UFU chief executive, Wesley Aston, told BBC Radio Ulster: “We want to make sure we avoid a no-deal situation. No deal for Northern Ireland agri-food and farming in particular would be absolutely disastrous and we have made that patently clear over this last while.”His comments follow those from the UFU’s Ivor Ferguson that the “sheep industry would be finished” if there was no deal.”

This basically totally undermines the DUP rhetoric and will make it much harder for it to pursue their stated course.My guess is that we’ll see a lot of pressure like this from all sorts of bodies throughout the UK if the threat of a no deal gathers real momentum.

This may be a bit of wishful thinking however the DUP have a record of  being  so prejudiced and so committed to the "Union" that they perceive , that they  opposed the Good Friday Agreement and are prepared to take the whole of the Ireland down with them.

It is a scandal that a party of 10 MPs who are described as embracing Right Wing populist eurosceptic Social conservatism are in such a position of power that they can ruin the economy not only of the Six Counties but the British Mainland but also the Republic of Ireland .

How many Tories who are not in love with Ress-Mogg or Johnson are prepared to put up with it.