Letter: The current, long-standing and ongoing egotistical infighting is the very reason unionist support for our parties is currently dwindling
A letter from Jack Irwin:
Edward Ferrin is probably correct in his assertion (One single unionist party simply will not work, July 18) that unionist unity will never happen and if it did it wouldn’t work anyway but I would still contend that it is most definitely incumbent upon those of us who believe in it to argue for it at every opportunity, as a matter of principle.
Mr Ferrin argues that a unified party would be so self-imploding that voters would be loathe to support it but I would suggest that the current, long-standing and ongoing egotistical infighting is the very reason unionist support for our parties is currently dwindling.
In a unified situation those involved would have to work together, on the basis that not to do so would facilitate even further the potential destruction of our country by Sinn Fein, the SDLP and of course Alliance.
All the politicians involved would simply have to put their personal animosities and ambitions to one side, in the interests of saving Northern Ireland, if that is in fact what they really want to do.
Jack Irwin, Bangor, County Down