DUP and SF are linked in their negativity

It is a melancholy thing when there is no vision in the land and if confirmation were needed we need look no further than the refusal of the DUP to participate in the 1916 Rising celebrations in Dublin.

What an opportunity to show political maturity and statesmanship, but no just a crass refusal, like Sinn Fein who refused to take part in the Queen’s visit to Dublin.

The outcome of this crassness resulting in President Higgins declining an invitation to visit Belfast.

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Since the signing of the Belfast Agreement these two factions have lived a cat and dog life of it by preserving all the mischiefs without any of the assets if there ever were any from this union.

We must not forget that the British Government have aided this state of affairs by handing out sops as a remedy and a reward, instead of insisting that the Belfast Agreement be accepted in full when there was no common reason for resisting it.

These seemingly hostile political parties are mentally linked to one another and their chief asset would appear to be negativity.

The striking thing about them is their complete lack of any constructive suggestions.

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There is nothing to them except the irresponsible carping of people who have been handed power and don’t know what to do with it. A modern Ireland cannot afford either of them, patriotism and intelligence go together.

Only when they are gone and the younger men and women in their respective parties grasp what century they are living in, will the electorate get what it voted for.

Wilson Burgess, Londonderry