‘What a fool I was. I was only a puppet, and so was Ulster, and so was Ireland, in the political game that was to get the Conservative Party into power... these terms were not passed on their merits. Not at all. They were passed with a revolver pointed at your heads. And you know it... ask your Lordships, ought unionist leaders to have been a party to that unionist leaders who had undertaken to defend unionist policy? Of all the men in my experience that I think the most loathsome it is those who will sell their friends for the purpose of conciliating their enemies.’