Rev Foster: A cowardly array of MLAs at Stormont have let Sinn Fein think themselves to be untouchable

Not for one moment do I think that there any in the Stormont assembly, with the exception of Jim Allister, who will call for the resignation of Michelle O’Neill, as your commendable editorial of yesterday demands (July 1).
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Sadly, the unionist people of Ulster has been so subverted and crippled by years of blindly following the voice of ecumenical ministers, there will be no rising up to support your call.

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O’Neill and all of Sinn Fein believe themselves to be in such a dominant position as to be untouchable and therefore able to ‘cock a snoot’ at all and sundry.

Having forced their way to the top of the heap by use of murder and terror by the bomb and the bullet, republicans now hold on to that position by having a veto on the future of the Stormont executive.

This, coupled with the greed of the DUP MLAs and their total unwillingness to jeopardise the rich pickings to be had in the assembly and the weak and compromising compliance of Westminster to republican demands, will assure that apart from a few cosmetic mutterings by MLAs seeking to impress their voters with their ‘stand’, no real opposition will be mounted against O’Neill.

Was there ever such an array of shameful and cowardly public representatives as presently found at Stormont?

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It surely surpasses ‘Madame Tussaud’ array of waxwork villains!

I can only think of the verse in God’s Word, taken from the Lord’s derisory description of the unfaithful leaders of Israel, which I believe aptly describes the unionist MLAs there, with the exception I say again, of Jim Allister.

‘His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter’; Isaiah 56:10-11

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd), Kilskeery