As the cold weather arrives pensioners are facing a stark choice between heat and food. Families are struggling with increasing bills for oil, electric, gas, and food. And the Agreement is under threat as never before from the most extreme right wing Tory government since Thatcher.Īt the same time the DUP has set aside any concern for households facing a cost of living crisis made worse by that party’s adherence to the madness of Brexit. Other key elements of the GFA remain unrealized, including the Bill of Rights. 25 years later and the DUP have effectively collapsed the Executive, the power sharing institutions and the north-south strand of the Agreement. I recall warning that there would be a battle a day getting the Agreement implemented. In 1998 as the Good Friday Agreement was endorsed by the people North and South and opposed by the DUP. And some DUPers believe that’s the way it should still be. From partition the northern state was to be theirs, to do as they chose. None of this came as any great surprise to even a casual observer of unionist politics.
Its unwillingness to operate the power sharing institutions in a good faith way also led to serial crises. Then there was the Renewable Heating Incentive scandal, with its evidence of gross incompetence and worse within the DUP. The DUPs support for the Brexit debacle its willingness to act as a funnel for dark money to bolster the leave campaign in London, and its desire for a hard border on the island of Ireland, have all backfired stupendously. And an ally and confidant of British Prime Ministers. The largest northern party in Westminster. It successfully outmaneuvered its unionist electoral rivals and emerged triumphant as the largest party in the Assembly. It pledged to Smash Sinn Féin - and failed - founded its own paramilitary organizations and set its face against power sharing. The DUP was established fifty years ago to oppose civil rights. Last Saturday’s DUP party conference saw it behave as unionist parties have usually behaved.
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