Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Paisley goes
Just heard it on BBC news: Paisley is to resign as first minister after the investment conference. The BBC website reports him as saying that: “I came to this decision a few weeks ago when I was thinking very much about the conference and what was going to come after the conference.”
He also said that it was up to the DUP who replaced him:
“This is not the Church of Rome. This is not Apostolic succession and I have no right to say who will succeed me.
“The person will succeed me when the mark is on the paper and the ballot is cast. “Whoever that will be will have my support and encouragement and if he wants to take my advice, he will get that advice if he asks for it, but I will not be sitting like Putin in Russia saying to the president ‘This is the way you have to go’.
“When I make a break, it is a break.”
Well there you go then.
Turgon @ 07:07 PM
Cheerio, then.
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:12 PMWell pardon me for smiling as we’re waving you goodbye
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:17 PMSad thing was, Paisley SNR crossed the rubicon, and was genuinely happy and at peace with himself; but this has not gone down well with TUV bigots.
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:19 PMSo the securocrats get another Adams’ stalwart to f- off. Good riddance to the anti Christ. I liked it in There will be Blood when DD Lewis dealt with the conman modelled on this old rogue.
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:20 PMDidn’t I tell you? Good bye and stay gone. No man has ever done Unionism more harm than you.
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:20 PMPerci, when he was good, he was very, very good, but when he was bad he was horrid.
Epitaph on a tyrant
Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.—W. H. Auden
Susan, aka Auntie Christ
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:23 PMStill, wish him and the missus well in (semi-) retirement.
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:26 PMI suppose Gerry A knew the blackbird was about to fall of the perch on Saturday when he warned that, ‘“I am concerned about those who are against what is happening,” within the DUP.
Paisley , off course has been the very reliable voice of bigotry, intransigence, and sectarian intolerance for over half a century now , Chuckle berry or not and its difficult to see where they could dig up a 10 carat red white and blue diamond to replace him and keep the boat of state of the Chapel Alliance afloat.
I forecast the DUP will shortly become a pack of barking Rottweillers tearing each other apart. Tye Executive will fall and Gordon Brown will be biting his fingernails to the quick before our local Walpurgis Night of the twelve twirls round.
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:27 PMAll this and the Indians have won a series against the Australians too! If Hillary loes big tonight, I’ll have used up all my dark powers for the year. Enoch, this one’s for you though. And such failure it’s ending in too.
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:27 PMHow bizarre - what was Jeffrey Donaldson’s ‘promotion’ all about?
Robinson - First Minister
Dodds - Leader
Simon Hamilton Junior Minister
Finance - Jeffrey Donaldson
ETI - Peter Weir / David Simpson
DOE - Arlene Foster
DCAL - Edwin PootsPosted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:29 PMParting of the ways a with Robinson proving an unpopular leader too into his own self-importance. doesn’t have the charisma to carry it off.....
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:33 PMParting of the ways a with Robinson proving an unpopular leader too into his own self-importance. doesn’t have the charisma to carry it off.....and mc allister waiting to pounce. should get interesting.
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:33 PM“Ian Paisley can’t be push around” says the old fool on Newsline - well he jolly well can be pushed out. I may be about to gloat myself to death, but this has been a long time coming.
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:36 PMIf only he had made this announcement 40 years ago we all could have lived in a better place, farewell, goodbye, and good riddance to the most bigoted man in Ireland.
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:36 PMAm I right in thinking that this means the UK’s longest serving party leader will now be… Gerry Adams?
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:37 PMThe son “has to carry his own cross”! Holy f*cking hell. Talk about losing the run of yourself. Still, it’s nice, isn’t it, to see him going out as he came in - with uitterly pointless sectarian jibes at the Catholics?
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:38 PMCrikes can hear the sharpening of knives in Dundela Ave all the way from here.
Totally and absolutely ruthless by Robbo.
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:38 PMJust heard Jim Allister’s response to Paisley’s resignation, “hung out to dry”?? So much for the bloody nose to the Chuckle Brothers line. Is he now saying that Paisley was an innocent victim in all of this? It will be interesting to see how the TUV deal with this, as well as all other parties across, it will either be the finish or the making of them. Ultimatley that will depend on how Robinson or Dodds handle the DUP post chuckle.
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:38 PMGood riddance, the man started as a fundamentalist bigot who ended up the pragmatist in the Macheavellian way.
One only wonders of the voiceless, those that have went to their grave by the words of this man that encouraged and cajoled the loyalist paramilitaries to carry out their grisly handy work.He wrecked everything he put his hand too, he secured nothing, The Sinn Fein-IRA defeat secured the stormont regime, not him.
By his own beliefs he will have to stand before his maker and explain his words and actions.I would love to be there to see the outcome.Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:40 PMAllister must be bricking himself tonight. No more Paisley to kick around.
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:42 PMQuote of the year “The DUP is not the Roman Catholic Church”.
In response Pope Benedict has released the following statement, “I can confirm the Catholic Church is not the DUP”.
Anyway just got the popcorn for the ‘DUP figures manouvre for the leadership’ show.
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:42 PMJust to read this into the record: Noel Thompson, by some distance, is the weakest BBC regional anchor. Totally incapable of asking an incisive question. Seriously - has anyone, save Ruane, struggled in the face of his rhetorical onslaught? Anyway, more Framboise! Tomorrow morning’s going to hurt.
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:43 PMTUV are finished. But poor, poor Danny K - how wistful he sounded when discussing a party whose men in grey suits dispatched a useless leader.
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:44 PMKarl
Don’t choke on it!
What a bloody hypocrite Allister is. It’s about policy says Jim - well, here’s an idea Jim, why not give us some policies to debate instead of carping from the side-lines.
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:46 PMJim A makes a very telling point when he alludes to the reformed pan-nationalist front that tried - and failed - to keep Paisley in place over the last fortnight.
Posted by on Mar 04, 2008 @ 07:47 PM
