In The Know (but not this time) wrote:
Pattaya wrote:
His colleges in the NI government ITK,
What about his "colleagues" in the Proddy Paramilitaries ???
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Not really linked in any meaningful way,certainly not as Sein Fein are one and the same as the IRA.
Even easily altered wiki only has a very weak link to him as having any involvement at all.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_loyalism
'Bigger and more moderate right-wing unionist parties like the Ulster Unionists (UUP) or Democratic Unionists (DUP) have actively sought to distance themselves from loyalist paramilitary activity. However, Ian Paisley and his Democratic Unionist Party have been involved with Ulster Resistance and worked alongside loyalist paramilitaries such as the Ulster Defence Association in the 1974 Ulster Workers' Council Strikes and the 1977 Loyalist Association of Workers strike'
He was a man of his time,a man of his country,and ultimately took a small unionist party to become the main party of NI,over taking the old Tory offshoot,the Official Unionists,who like their English cousins were thought to be out of touch with modern reality.
Very easy for people who know little about the situation there,and possibly never spent any time there to judge,but history will now be able to put him in context.Seems many fell for the meejah image,without looking deeper
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-16910949
'Yet in a political career that spanned nearly 40 years, he went from throwing snowballs at one Irish prime minister to embracing another one; from political "never man" to Northern Ireland's first minister.
He ended up leading a power-sharing executive at Stormont - although he had supported the strike to bring one down 30 years earlier.
His biggest turnaround came when, as the leader of hardline unionism, he sat down with Gerry Adams - his former bitter enemy, the leader of militant republicanism - as the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein decided to work together in an executive.'
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