The DUP treacherously led Northern Ireland into mandatory coalition with Sinn Fein

All the huffing and puffing by the DUP around what Michelle O’Neill did or did not to surrounding social distancing comes down to one thing and one thing only, it was the DUP that signed up at St Andrew’s.
By William Spence
Published 4th Jul 2020, 12:00 GMT
First Minister Ian Paisley and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness after being sworn in as ministers of the Northern Ireland Assembley in May 2007. Paisley once told Billy Spence, that “one day he would be prime minister". Photo: Paul Faith/PA WireFirst Minister Ian Paisley and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness after being sworn in as ministers of the Northern Ireland Assembley in May 2007. Paisley once told Billy Spence, that “one day he would be prime minister". Photo: Paul Faith/PA Wire
First Minister Ian Paisley and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness after being sworn in as ministers of the Northern Ireland Assembley in May 2007. Paisley once told Billy Spence, that “one day he would be prime minister". Photo: Paul Faith/PA Wire

They treacherously led this country into a mandatory coalition with Sinn Fein back in 2006.

A party that everyone believes has its own military wing, which the security forces assess still to be in existence, despite what is alternatively alleged.

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Let us not forget that it was the former DUP leader who unilaterally changed the original Good Friday Agreement that instead of being a largest corporate unionist or nationalist grouping at Stormont.

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It was they that wanted it to be the largest party to be the lead. Now they find themselves with the Shinners breathing fire down their necks, having shamefully lost that majority unionist veto.

Back in the early 1970s its leader’s pronouncement to my late father, Billy Spence, that “one day he would be prime minister, he would be another Carson” has now resulted in what we have to suffer — a mandatory government alongside apologists for unrepentant terror.

Shame on all of them for continuing to shake hands with the devil.

William Spence, Belfast BT13

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