Ah, there's some silly point-scoring on this issue... The
loyalist paramilitaries declared a ceasefire now virtually three
years ago... There was a clear unambiguous ceasefire.
David Trimble on loyalist violence and his going into Stormont
flanked by the PUP and UDP. Inside Politics, Saturday 20
September.
Unionist leader David Trimble positioned UDP leader Gary
McMichael and the PUP's David Ervine on either side of him last
Wednesday (subliminal message: the pan-unionist front has a
paramilitary muscle as well; remember Vanguard).
Ed Moloney, Sunday Tribune, 21 September.
Look a little closer at some of the men that Trimble associated
with last Tuesday. Among them were members of the Command Staff
of both the UVF and UDA and their umbrella body CLMC, who have
been responsible for the sectarian slaughter of hundreds of
people whose only crime was that they were Catholics. Their
battle flags, if they had any, could have been inscribed with
their brutal triumphs: The Dublin Bombings, Loughinisland and the
Mid-Ulster Murder Triangle.
Tom McGurk in the Sunday Business Post, 21 September.
There is not the slightest possibility of them putting Sinn Féin
out - it is a battle the Ulster Unionist Party simply cannot win.
Comments by William Thompson MP, quoted in the Irish Independent,
Tuesday 23 September.
There is about as much chance of Sinn Féin being ejected from the
talks as there is of the cow jumping over the moon.
Deaglán Be Breadún. Irish Times, Friday 19 September.
It will be a sombre occasion. Nobody is looking forward to it.
Nobody will relish it but it is something which just has to be
done.
UUP source quoted in the Irish Times on the party's entry into
talks, Tuesday 23 September.
It is because the principle of consent did not operate in
1920/'21 that the settlement did not bring lasting peace. There
was no consent to the Government of Ireland Act of 1920 which
partitioned Ireland.
Professor Joe Lee, Sunday Tribune, 21 September.
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