Allister answers deluded Poots
11 February 2008
Describing comments by Edwin Poots, to the effect that the DUP was delivering and had got Sinn Fein to abandon its all-Ireland ambitions, as “delusional” Jim Allister MEP said:-
“Only a fool would believe Sinn Fein/IRA, which still had its military wing and Army Council, was doing other at Stormont than pursuing what Gerry Adams had described as “the latest phase in our struggle”. Courtesy of the DUP they have been delivered to the very heart of the government of a state they not only didn’t believe in but were dedicated to destroy. Thereby they had opportunity, beyond their wildest dreams, to wreck our prized education system, build all-island infrastructure, both physical and political, and exercise a veto on every unionist proposal, because of the inbuilt procedures of the Belfast Agreement, which the DUP was now ardently working.
Mr Poots speaks of Sinn Fein giving up the language of the past, but the most notable change in language in recent times is Ian Paisley’s enthusiastic adoption of the republican lexicon of “the north” and “great days for Ireland”.
