Thursday, June 19, 2008
A Fair Deal on the Dupes and 42 days
Fair Deal over at Our Kingdom argues that the DUPs' shenanigans last week at Westminster will have, contrary to media and blog opinion, no lasting effect on how the mainland audience regards Northern Ireland's place within the Union. He's probably right, but he's silent on quite why they found it necessary to so publicly pimp their 9 votes, when it should have been quite clear to anyone with half a brain (and Gordon Brown) what way they'd fall on this question. That's what's left the lingering bad taste.
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100% right O'Neill. What is so objectionable is not that the DUPes voted the wrong way on this (which they did), but the fact that they offered nothing to the debate and so blatantly held out to the last minute in order to extract maximum advantage,
And yet the question is still being asked...
So whereas it probably won't make a difference to most people, it will to many. And at a crucial point some time in the future whose voices will be listened to? The apathetic majority or the angry minority?
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