Kennedy tells of deep irony of DUP now trumpeting Belfast Agreement in Finnish Peace Talks
Unionists and loyalists will be left with a deep sense of irony following the disclosure that a senior member of the DUP was involved in advocating and promoting the Belfast Agreement as a model for resolving other conflicts in the world including the difficulties in Iraq, Ulster Unionist Deputy-Leader Danny Kennedy said today,
In a statement Mr Kennedy continued,
“The revelation simply confirms the fact that the DUP were never truly an anti-agreement Party but were simply engaged in a deeply cynical political exercise to emerge as the largest political party in NI - something which has proven costly to Unionists in terms of concessions made to republicans. All over this Province grass roots unionists are asking only one question to the DUP leadership - “What was the past 38 years all about?
The Unionist population is also informed now, from no less a person than Ian Paisley Jnr, that any suggestion of a rift in OFM/DFM ie the SF/DUP Government pact was “entirely fantasy politics” - so much for the promise given that “it wouldn’t be a love-in!”