And the winner is —-Barra McGrory, for answering it however he wanted to.
For further detail, see Hansard.
The orange donkey, let’s beat it again
Nigel Dodds, and his wife, part of the DUP dynasties of families, earn ten to twenty times what an average family in North Belfast might earn. He chooses to live in Banbridge, many miles from his constituency. He wants to tell the people of North Belfast, one of the most deprived parts of his beloved United Kingdom that the DUP will support a marching bill.
Well, voters of North Belfast, you only get the MP that you deserve.
[An alternative is Gerry Kelly, murderer , fascist and philanderer….]
Is there any hope for this island?
The right to march
Dear Tesco,
I know that I am a single female parent and that I have three children and that I can’t afford to pay for their weekly shop but the DUP have assured me that I will have a right to march.
So everything is ok then?
I have been watching the unionist parties since the 1960s. Beat the drum, fly the flag, tell the masses that the union is under attack. Get the vote.
When will the working class of North Belfast wake up? Ever?
Nigel Dodds [‘the mighty Dodds’] and his wife clean up over £150,000 per year and live in Banbridge.
So much for being a man of the people.
Of course for women, Jim Allister is hardly a twentieth century alternative.
Seamus Treacy: The Belfast Judge From The Twilight Zone?
It used to be said that Equity varies with the length of the Vice-Chancellor’s foot…..
Read these two stories and when you’re finished ask yourself if you have gone to sleep and woken up in the middle of a Twilight Zone script:
Sister of UVF victim loses dossier disclosure battle
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Willie awakes
It’s good to see that the Reverend Doctor William McCrea has taken time out from pastoring and singing to front a statement about victims. He says that the DUP will seek a definition of a victim which excludes terrorist perpetrators.
Most often seen as a nodding head behind his more capable colleagues at Westminster, the reclusive MP for South Antrim [he has twice failed to answer queries from me] describes the current law as “immoral”.
This will be of huge comfort to the victims of Libyan Semtex who, after twenty five years, have yet to see any compensation and much action from the DUP.
Of the one hundred “demands” as the Irish Times described them today, only one relates to victims and this is it.
Victims and their survivors might ponder that in the voting booth.
Barra McGrory Pursues Dying Man Over ‘On The Run’ Letter
A former republican prisoner who may have only days or weeks left to live is facing trial for an offence committed in 1977 because the Northern Ireland Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Barra McGrory claims that the ‘letter of comfort’ given to him by the Blair government promising no prosecution was issued in error.
The case is almost a replica of the controversy surrounding John Downey, the alleged IRA bomber, whose trial on murder charges arising from the 1982 Hyde Park bombing collapsed when his lawyers argued successfully that the ‘comfort letter’ he had received protected him from prosecution.
Barra McGrory, North’s DPP – wants to prosecute a dying man and tear up his ‘comfort letter’ promising no prosecution
It emerged later that Downey’s ‘comfort letter’ had been issued by mistake since he was wanted by British police when it was issued and the affair has pitched the legal and…
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DUP and ex republican terrorists
The DUP and Sinn Fein joined together to vote Belfast ratepayers’ money to ex terrorist groups.
This is the same party who, in twenty five years has not secured one pound of compensation to victims of PIRA Semtex.
One to ponder in the voting booth.
OTRs Easter Quiz
Here is my Easter Quiz.
Part I
Are the OTR letters:
A Entirely worthless
B Not entirely worthless
C Maybe entirely worthless
D Largely worthless
E Of little legal significance
F Politically important
G Letters that had value
Part II
Who vigourosly pursued the letters?
Who was sold a pup and why?
Who was just a postman for Sinn Fein?
Who had a meeting with ACC Sheridan about the letters?
Who never saw the letters at the time?
Who has seen them now?
Replies to the PPS, Chichester St Belfast
Christy Walsh
This man was the subject of an unfair prosecution and he had his conviction overturned, after a long battle.
He is understandably aggrieved about that and other matters.
He has made a number of complaints and he alleges that the Establishment has ganged up against him.
It would not be the first time in recent memory that the Establishment has done this.
It will be important for the legal system, in all its guises , to show that he has received good representation and a fair hearing at every turn. Otherwise all other campaigns by lawyers , for fair fees and for justice , are for naught.
I hope people out there are listening…..
The Orange Donkey
It seems meet that this subject should be now aired.
it used to be said that the Unionist party could field a donkey for election and it would win.
Has anything changed? Well, looking at loyalist areas of North Belfast, certainly not. Deprivation is everywhere. But so long as the marches are uppermost in the minds of the masses, all will be well.
Let’s look at a few Orange Donkeys.
Nigel Dodds and Jeffrey Donaldson. Compensation for victims of PIRA crimes. Twenty five years on, all we hear are the same old promises. I and others are at least walking wounded. Many victims live appalling lives of suffering. This duo of donkeys just witter.
Jamie Bryson. Did he shake hands with McGuinness? I have asked him twice, but he has not replied. What has this man done for the lives of the loyalist community?
Saving the best for last. Willie Frazer, that flim flam man of loyalism. Carpet Bagger extraordinaire. Seller of fake medicines to loyalism. That man , with no visible means of support and no visible results. Does Willie draw a salary from FAIR? If so how much? Can anyone tell me of any victim of the troubles who has received practical support from him, apart from a second hand cooker?
Let’s look at the Kingsmills project. if there was not a start to disclosure to the Coroner by 27 March , Willie was marching in Dublin. Well, the date has come and gone and there is no sign of Willie’s Dublin march and no sign of documents. But, you see, he met the Irish Prime Minister. So that’s all right then.
Somehow, he is again the voice of FAIR, an organisation which is supposed to be non-sectarian. Let’s examine some recent Willie posts. Amnesty International is part of the Republican movement, apparently. The Irish Government financed the IRA murders of innocents, according to Willie.
Why was Willie not in Ballymurphy, supporting the claims of innocent victims there?
Did his handlers advise against it?
The point of this article is to draw attention, if such were needed , to the Big House Unionism which still prevails and to the followers on their coat tails, who , like Bryson and Frazer , make no practical difference to the most vulnerable in our society.
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