What are the DUP’s terms to avoid the forced resignation of Peter Robinson?
Before you head off for the weekend, have a look at Sam McBride’s exclusive in this morning’s News Letter…
PETER Robinson signed a post-dated letter of resignation as First Minister to secure his party’s support for policing and justice..
This is significant on two levels. One, it suggests that if the party doesn’t get the deal it wants, Robbo is toast. And second, it removes the power to unseat the party leader from the Assembly group where we know he has a 60-40 majority to the party executive where we are not sure the level or degree of support. The question that deserves an honest and forthright answer is: on what terms? In other words, what is the bare minimum the working group must bring home so as to avoid Robinson’s resignation?
David Crookes ,
‘What you say reminds me that Robert Ramsey has a great sentence in his book Ringside Seats about Lord Moyola. ‘He was not on the intellectual wing of the party.’’
Right that would have been Harry West’s wing
Ramsey is obviously a master of understatement eh?
As for Peter Robinson becoming ‘toast’ ? What matter ?
There will never be a shortage of toast among ‘Unionism’s ‘ political elite .They are all replaceable even if some of us think they’re not.
You’re not wrong, Greenflag!
I once heard that when James Chichester-Clark was raised to the peerage, he asked his image consultants to come up with a baronial name ‘that Ian Paisley won’t be able to make fun of.’ At length they came up with ‘Lord Moyola’.
In the next week’s Protestant Telegraph, the poor man was referred to as ‘Lord Farola.’
All fair game in the land of Amanda McKittrick Ros. Does anyone remember the slogan FLOUNDER WITH POUNDER?