Interviewed in this morning’s Belfast Telegraph, Lynda Bryans was asked about the best advice she had received. It wasn’t about shrinking and growing.
That’s an easy one. It was something Mike said to me years ago. I had to choose between a staff contract and a risky one-year contract that might not be renewed. Mike told me that change happens and if you don’t roll with it then you’ll be left behind. That’s been great advice ever since and I did take the one-year contract which was renewed over and over again.
Mike Nesbitt’s advice to his wife certainly seems consistent with his own approach to managing upheaval within the UUP: fearlessly changing tack to stop any form of differentiation with the DUP, and instead taking the less certain option of growing closer links with his larger unionist rival.
Unfortunately, this change might be at the risk of being left even further behind. Or the risk of simply being assimilated …
Alan Meban. Tweets as @alaninbelfast. Blogs about cinema and theatre over at Alan in Belfast. A freelancer who writes about, reports from, live-tweets and live-streams civic, academic and political events and conferences. He delivers social media training/coaching; produces podcasts and radio programmes; is a FactCheckNI director; a member of Ofcom’s Advisory Committee for Northern Ireland; and a member of the Corrymeela Community.
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