Aren’t moving images a pain in the arse? Especially when they show you up. Had it not been for RTÉ cameras in Derry on 5 October 1968, the world mightn’t have seen how civil rights marchers were dealt with in our little NEN. And I think there may even be TV footage of a British officer lying through his teeth about what happened on Bloody Sunday.
But to move to more recently: a clever person has just drawn my attention to the consistency of the DUP’s view of rule from Westminster Here’s Arlene Foster in 2014, explaining how good devolution is and direct rule from London would in fact be direct rule from London AND Dublin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zem9RHxo9bs
Got that clear in your head? Direct rule from London means joint authority. Straight talking from the DUP leader.
Now, here’s the DUP threatening shock and awe and plugs pulled on their cosy deal with the Tories if Dublin were to be granted a greater ay over things here:
So as my clever friend noted: ” What is the basis of the clear change in position; from acceptance that ‘direct rule’ equates to joint authority in 2014 to apparent denial of the same and even stating that joint authority ‘would be a fundamental breach of all of the agreements that [they] have entered into’ in 2017?”
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