Everything Ulster - Election 2005

CHRISTOPHER Stalford wrote his last article in the Newsletter today. I for one am glad, as I'm not sure I could take much more of his bland column which, for the last couple of weeks during which time I've read it, did little more than regurgitate DUP propaganda. He's so good he could nearly work for Sinn Fein.

Today's column enraged me. He bgins by saying that he's leaving and that apparently the Newsletter is now sufficiently pro-DUP for his liking. Apparently the paper had previously been criticised for only being reperesetnative of pro-agreement, pro-Trimble unionism. Apparently now "all shades of unionist political opinion are given a fair hearing on the pages of this publication". It's obviously just my own misapprehension that caused me to think this morning, as I walked to the shop, how biased towards the DUP the paper has seemed in the past few weeks!! (I only started reading it, in preference to the Belfast Telegraph, in the last few weeks)

He then goes on to give a shamefully inaccurate account of what has happened in Northern Ireland over the last year. Apparently "Sinn Fein/IRA, so used to getting their own way, dictating to unionists and reaping concessions... have been humiliated, exposed and played off the proverbial field by the [DUP]." If you say so Chris!

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