Describing DUP men who don't want to move forward as Hardliners, and those who do as willing to "sell their grannies ... for Power" is itself a hardline position where the DUP can do no right. They need encouragement.
Sorry to disappoint you, but the DUP is not split down the middle, the side, the top or the bottom! A fortnight ago the DUP executive unanimously agreed on a policy statement, and Party policy has not altered since. The bottom line is that the DUP will only share power with SF if they first of all sign up to policing and give their full support to the PSNI. Promises will not suffice! Promises from shinners mean as much as a valentines card from a street whore!
Here's a song Paisely might start getting his old vocals round:
I was lost till you were found
But I never know how far down
I was falling
Before I reached the bottom
I was cold and you were fire
And I never knew how the pyre
Could be burning
On the edge of the ice field
I'm in the middle of nowhere
Near the end of the line
But there's a border to somewhere waiting
And there's a tankful of time
Oh give me just another moment
To see the light of the day
And take me to another land where
I don't have to stay
I was damned and you were saved
And I never knew how enslaved
I was kneeling
In the chains of my master
I could laugh but you could cry
And I never knew just how high
I was flying
Ah, with you right above me
Here I am an Orangeman, just come across the sea
For singing and for dancing, I hope that I'll please thee,
I can sing and dance with any man, as I did in days of yore.
And its on the twelfth I long to wear the Sash My Father wore.
Chorus
It is old but it is beautiful and It's colours they are fine.
It was worn at Derry, Aughrim, Enniskillen and the Boyne.
My Father wore it as a youth in bygone days of yore
And its on the twelfth I long to wear, The Sash my Father Wore.
For it's now I'm going to leave you, good luck to you I'll say,
And when I'm on the ocean deep, I hope for me you'll pray
I'm going to my native land, to a place they call Dromore,
Where on the twelfth I long to wear the Sash my Father Wore.
Chorus
Whenever I come back again my brethren here to see ,
I hope to find old Orange style, they will always welcome me.
My favourite tune's 'Boyne Water', but to please me more and more,
And make my Orange Heart full glad with the Sash my Father wore.
Chorus
Boney M
Not a bad song, unlike others there's no hatred. To be proud of your protestantism is fantastic, as its the Orange in the tri-colour.
Now as long as we're allowed to be proud to be Catholics we can unite.
Why do you have to have the triumphalism though?
Every year marching?
Isn't it enough just to be a protestant without having to keep reliving old battles.
You're very welcome in a united Ireland, and nowhere in that song you quoted does it mention anything about Unionism or Britian.
Freedom of religious expression.
Great!
What do you need the Union Jack for?
Read the proclamation of 1916, there's a bit about equality for protestants.
Dearest parsnips,
You are equally welcome in the United Kingdom, and if Bertie decides that he'd like ROI in the Commonwealth, you're more than welcome there too.
"Now as long as we're allowed to be proud to be Catholics we can unite."
I'm all in favour of uniting. But I don't want a united Ireland, I want a United Europe. Both ROI and the UK will be very welcome in a fully united Europe. I'm delighted for Catholics, Muslims, Hindi etc ad finitum to be proud as long as they do not infringe my civil rights. Civil and Religious liberty for all! But ROI is an insular country. Dublin is metropolitan, but is Cork? Like Hell it is! Having spent the 1st 15 years of my life in Galway and a family traceable back to 1015 in Connemara I know all about how welcome I would be in a united ireland.
We are very interested by what you have to say. If it were possibe for you to contact us we would most appreciate it.
We are actually working on a project about northern ireland, the conflit and every thing about it.
We would be greatfull for any kind of help.
Your blog is very interesting and we would like too know more about its creator and how you live the conflict.
Our respects,
Sophie Martin and Camille Durand
Drop me an e-mail or leave yours and I will happily oblige
By the way, take everything Chris says with a bucket of salt.
I can smell the BS already.
LOL, what a sad person you must be gary
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