Excellent article. However, please remember that Arlene Foster walked out on Nobel Prize winning David Trimble when the Good Friday agreement was to be signed and defected to Paisley’s DUP so that she should campaign against the agreement. The only major party to do so. She has done nothing for NI apart from generate more heat and hate.
She did, and I am not unaware of the hard decisions a lot of people made over the Belfast Agreement. There were (and are) things in it to dislike - indeed, to turn the stomach - and it was not necessarily clear 25 years ago that it would work, even to the extent that it has done. I also think Arlene's step away from the DUP has done her the power of good.
I think she’s very much at home with the lowest common denominator, dog whistle, “they’re coming for us” style of politics promoted on GB news. She’s made a very successful career out of it.
Excellent article. However, please remember that Arlene Foster walked out on Nobel Prize winning David Trimble when the Good Friday agreement was to be signed and defected to Paisley’s DUP so that she should campaign against the agreement. The only major party to do so. She has done nothing for NI apart from generate more heat and hate.
She did, and I am not unaware of the hard decisions a lot of people made over the Belfast Agreement. There were (and are) things in it to dislike - indeed, to turn the stomach - and it was not necessarily clear 25 years ago that it would work, even to the extent that it has done. I also think Arlene's step away from the DUP has done her the power of good.
I think she’s very much at home with the lowest common denominator, dog whistle, “they’re coming for us” style of politics promoted on GB news. She’s made a very successful career out of it.