Susan McKay: DUP believes chaos is best plan Constructive voices within Northern Ireland’s Protestant community being shut out
Fri, Mar 5, 2021, 00:47 Susan McKay
First Minister Arlene Foster seems only nominally in charge. She scarcely rebukes the politicians she is supposed to be leading when they engage in uncouth, disruptive and bigoted behaviour. Photograph: Liam McBurney
As the Proud Boys are to Trump, so the loyalist paramilitaries are to the Democratic Unionist Party. They are what you are left with when democracy lets you down.
“We will fight guerrilla warfare against this, until the big battle opportunity comes,” the DUP MP for East Antrim, Sammy Wilson, declared last weekend in respect of the Northern Ireland protocol. His comments followed a meeting between First Minister and DUP leader Arlene Foster and a group that included retired for
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Bob Ladd, Edinburgh, UK
None of the previous answers to this question stepped outside a broadly European frame of reference, which takes for granted that left and right are part of the natural order of the world.
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There are plenty of languages and cultures that don’t use these concepts, including many that use “geocentric” rather than “egocentric” phrases to talk about spatial relations, for example, “to the east of you” rather than “to your left”. As long as everyone shares the frame of reference, either system works fine.
Bob McCrossin, Cooroy, Queensland, Australia
Left/right orients the world with respect to you. The Guugu Yimithirr people of north Queensland orient to the cardinal points of the compass, for example “look out for that cassowary to the north of you”.
According to those in the know, Arlene Foster s leadership of the DUP is coming to an end.
The no nonsense Fermanagh woman has survived RHI, the collapse of the Assembly, Brexit and Covid - but the Irish Sea border may prove a bridge too far.
Graffiti has already appeared in Belfast spelling out the message Foster must go , and according to sources within her own party some agree.
Foster could yet retain her position, but the results of a recent LucidTalk poll will have done nothing to help her cause.
If she does go, the question remains who will succeed her?
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