Taking the long view… Ian Paisley’s very personal thoughts on Irish unity… May 16, 2008
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Another one-liner…
Of the future, he says: “I believe that we can live together. We’re not going to have a united Ireland within 50 years or maybe 100 years but then I’ll not be here anyway, so it doesn’t matter.”
Alright then…
All of a sudden, around the country, Republican dissidents look up from polishing their rifles…
Such a telling statement by Paisley on so many levels…
Must be grating to the 40 years of unionist leaders he helped destroy. kinda confirmed that he wasn’t much about unionism but more of paisleyism. What a waste of time.
A half-megalomaniac expression there in bold. All his campaign he towed that view for his people, that it doesn’t suit him. What broadly were the feelings in the North from ordinary people? Did a majority of Orangemen feel similarly? Or not…
Maybe History doesn’t be ready sometimes to take the Next Step and gets embodied in these demogogues who might somehow be necessary at the time because Time isn’t ready for something different.
It is now though.
I’d bet you’re not the only one feeling that way Dec this morning. Me neither.
Who was it said the Big Man would do a deal if you only made him feel important enough?
I’m sure all the Unionist leaders probably made plans for
what to do in the event the “traytuhrs” in Westminster sold
them out to the hated Roman Republic, (Independent Ulster/
Mass Exodus after destroying everything of value in the
Six Counties/Some accommodation with Dublin).
Isn’t Paisley making a deal with Sinn Fein the Ulster Unionist
version of “Only Nixon can go to China?” (he was the only
one who do it without being accused of disloyalty).
Sort of Starkadder. Some must wonder now whether they couldn’t have cut a ‘better’ deal from a Nationalist/Republican viewpoint with him…
Reading the histories from the 70s that certainly seems true splintered…
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