Unionists taking victories as defeats

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Steven King beleives that Unionists can be their own worst enemies.

Last week Gerry Adams described unionists as “the garrison” as if they were some foreign body implanted in Ireland. He also said it was “a scary time” to be a unionist. Why when Gerry pulls the string do some unionists insist on kicking themselves in the face?

He goes to echo one of the opening themes in the Slugger report on the future of Unionism (due out on Monday):

Which poses the question: who is afraid of a normal society? Just what role is there for a siege mentality if the siege is finally lifted? It is time some unionists broke the habit of a lifetime and stopped seizing defeat from the jaws of victory.

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