Gerry Adams may be on to something when he suggests what he terms an absolutist position he’s expecting the UUP to sign up to and bring into the negotiating chamber may make that negotiating process more difficult. In a oblique way it chimes with Nelson McCausland’s observations on the nature of negotiations here on Slugger last February:
Nationalists have this idea of a green heaven that they are working towards, and we think ahead and set out what we think might be the middle of the road ground. What happens is we end up half way in between. What we should be doing is creating a Unionist heaven. I would love it to be a society where every one is Unionist and the Union Jack is the only flag that�s flown. But of course that isn�t going to happen for us any more than Nationalist heaven is going to happen for them. What is increasingly being recognised is that one side cannot survive without the other.
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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