"If Simon Hamilton expects to stand in Strangford and lecture victims he has another thought coming because we have paid a heavy price at the hands of republicans and we will not be silenced."Hamilton is one of the more arrogant of the up and coming DUP representatives and it'll be interesting to see if he can resist continuing the "spat"; it's a bit different talking down to your political rivals as if they were something you've just wiped off your shoe and doing the same with someone who had 5 members of his family murdered by Republicans.
And this from Willie Fraser surprised me, in a positive way:
Mr Frazer said that it would be "fair" for the SDLP to get the Justice Ministry as it is due the next department based on its Assembly seats, rather than the Alliance Party, which is in line for the post."
Mr Frazer, whose father and many relatives were murdered by the IRA, said: "If they (the DUP) had done this deal with the SDLP 40 years ago people close to me would be alive today.
"I stand over my comments and I am entitled to my opinion and many people in Northern Ireland are equally bemused with the current political situation where it appears the rules can be suspended or ignored when they don't suit."
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Disengenious over your portrayal of Wullie Fraser there oneil.
I mean would anybody tell a story about Mussolini by only saying that he was theatrical orater who was brutally murdered by terrorists late in WW2, or that the BNP are a party much derided who have had to battle media censoorship within and without?
If I didn't know any better by the way you portrayed him I would think that Wullie was a sound chap who's innocent relations were picked on indiscriminately. I believe that he is having a particularly lucid moment in his clarity over the present state of political affairs btw.
"If I didn't know any better by the way you portrayed him I would think that Wullie was a sound chap who's innocent relations were picked on indiscriminately"
Anyone who's from NI will know exactly who Willie is and for those are not I haven't put anything that's untrue in the post.
The main point though is that both him and Hamilton are speaking to the same market and as far as they're concerned he is a man with 5 relatives murdered by the representatives of the same organisation Hamilton's party is doing business.
Heard a rumour that the Dupes are thinking of parachuting Arlene into Strangford!
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