SpabSFW
02-10-2004, 05:23 PM
http://www.nuzhound.com/articles/irish_news/arts2004/feb7_DUPs_magna_carta__JKelly.php
...We need it (Hume's advice) in the political confusion left by that daft travesty of an election – government of half the people by the other half of the people!
Ye Gods! They have mistaken it for democracy. The smirking phoney victor, Ian Paisley, who has emerged on top of the rubble of unionism as we once knew it – now splintered to bits – has been over to London in his new guise as a make-believe messiah.
The guldering rowdy – who disgraced us at Oxford, Westminster and Strasbourg – now, in his declining years, craves respectability as a serious political leader after all those destructive years as the raging bull in the Ulster china shop. So he unveils his long-awaited secret document, hinted at during that weird election but never disclosed.
This great new Protestant magna carta, 24 pages long, promises to lead the Ulster 'people' (but not the non-people) back to the promised land hi-jacked by the conspirators Ned carson and Jimmy Craig away back in 1921. Sunningdale has been dumped and now it is the turn of the hard-fought-for Good Friday agreement already pronounced a dead duck by faint-hearted unionist columnists running with the mob.
The review of that agreement is scheduled to go on at Stormont for 10 weeks and then rise for Easter. But when is a review not a review?
When the would-be leader of the confused tribe of unionism translates it as the 'renegotiation' of the international agreement endorsed by all the people of Ireland.
Paisley says ''everything will be on the table''. But listen to the wise words of John hume.
He says that is rubbish and, by rejecting the mandate of the people of all Ireland, Paisley and his wretched cronies, turncoats and UUP backsliders, have rejected the democratic wishes of the huge majority.
Both governments, British and Irish, have already said so.
So who is fooling whom? ...
...We need it (Hume's advice) in the political confusion left by that daft travesty of an election – government of half the people by the other half of the people!
Ye Gods! They have mistaken it for democracy. The smirking phoney victor, Ian Paisley, who has emerged on top of the rubble of unionism as we once knew it – now splintered to bits – has been over to London in his new guise as a make-believe messiah.
The guldering rowdy – who disgraced us at Oxford, Westminster and Strasbourg – now, in his declining years, craves respectability as a serious political leader after all those destructive years as the raging bull in the Ulster china shop. So he unveils his long-awaited secret document, hinted at during that weird election but never disclosed.
This great new Protestant magna carta, 24 pages long, promises to lead the Ulster 'people' (but not the non-people) back to the promised land hi-jacked by the conspirators Ned carson and Jimmy Craig away back in 1921. Sunningdale has been dumped and now it is the turn of the hard-fought-for Good Friday agreement already pronounced a dead duck by faint-hearted unionist columnists running with the mob.
The review of that agreement is scheduled to go on at Stormont for 10 weeks and then rise for Easter. But when is a review not a review?
When the would-be leader of the confused tribe of unionism translates it as the 'renegotiation' of the international agreement endorsed by all the people of Ireland.
Paisley says ''everything will be on the table''. But listen to the wise words of John hume.
He says that is rubbish and, by rejecting the mandate of the people of all Ireland, Paisley and his wretched cronies, turncoats and UUP backsliders, have rejected the democratic wishes of the huge majority.
Both governments, British and Irish, have already said so.
So who is fooling whom? ...