DUP to refuse to share power with UUP
The DUP has taken what many seem to consider the open goal offered them by the UUP’s decision to approach PUP leader David Ervine about joining the party within the Assembly.
DUP leader Ian Paisley said at Stormont that his party will not enter any power-sharing arrangement with the UUP due to the PUP and Ervine’s links to the Ulster Volunteer Force, which is not on ceasefire and which the report points out is deeply involved in drugs, extortion and violence.
“If people want to be aligned with any form of terrorism, whether it be Protestant or Roman Catholic, they have no right in the government here,” he said.
Cahal said:
“a UDA apologizer/supporter talking about the moral high-ground?”
One question for you…
Would there be a UDA if the IRA hadn’t bombed and butchered our people in the two years of the Troubles, 1969-1971, before the UDA were formed?
The UDA was born as a DEFENCE Association – an umbrella organisation for all the local defence associations that sprang up around Belfast and Londonderry in particular, to stave off nightly attacks from republicans…
“Would there be a UDA if the IRA hadn’t bombed and butchered our people in the two years of the Troubles, 1969-1971, before the UDA were formed?”
No, there’d still be the B Specials, doing much the same job and much, much worse.
If the UUP wanna join up with David Irvine (PUP) then do u not think it’s their decision AND not YOUR’S??
Anne,
Absolutely, this no-ones business but a few members of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Indeed shame on the media for even reporting this private decision.
We most certainly shouldnt get into the nasty business of discussing the alliance between a supposedly democratic political party and a gang of terrorists.
Move along now everone….. nothing to see here.