Chris Donnelly on December 4, 2006, 12:09 am | Readers 0
The recent divisions within the DUP have become all too evident, following on from the now-famed Press statement saga. Following on from the party’s ‘clear the air’ Templepatrick meeting, Ian Paisley Jnr is indicating that the party will refuse to agree a timetable for the devolution of policing and justice powers- as a group of dissenting DUP councillors in Antrim had demanded in a planned leak to the Antrim Guardian newspaper. Is this the DUP’s strategy to delay a deal beyond March 2007 to buy more time to prepare the jumpy grassroots for the necessary- and painful- compromises that lie ahead?
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