A Tangled Web

ST. JOHN TO ASCEND TO HEAVEN?



John Hume, the patron saint of the Belfast Agreement, Nobel Laureate, will announce today that he will be not be standing again for Europe in the May elections.



Bye Bye SDLP! I bet Durkan and co are quaking in their boots this morning.



Hume was many things. At a personal level, I found him a pleasant man, with good intentions. Unfortunately the road to hell is paved with such, and it was his lasting folly to bring the Sinn Fein/IRA monster to life in the body politic. It is now devouring his Party and it will devour his Euroseat.



As I have said before, what does it profit a man that he loses his political party but furthers Irish unity.



Happy retirement John - but you were a political calamity!