Tom McGurk takes occasion to cross the political floor and offer his thoughts on the problems within the UUP. Considering his copy had to be submitted before Trimble’s victory on Saturday, some of his analysis will already have proved less durable than others.
At a time when the DUP have been engaged in publishing often fairly populist policy outlines on details like rates, human rights and the need for constitutional reform, perhaps his most interesting thought is in his assertion that:
But what the crisis is really about, at a seminal level, is the problem that unionism is devoid of any semblance of any real political dimension. What suffices are arguments about the extent that the degrees of change now demanded are a departure from traditional sectarian totems.
Mick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet on politics and the wider media and is a regular guest and speaking events across Ireland, the UK and Europe. Twitter: @MickFealty
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