DUP must stop pandering to SF or fail like the UUP

IT is interesting to listen to the messages coming from the strongest unionist party, the DUP.

It is gratifying to hear about negotiations for a new agreement for Northern Ireland. I take it this means that any new arrangement will not include Sinn Féin in government by right. If the forthcoming talks about the future of devolution do not exclude Sinn Féin, then any resultant agreement will be mere tinkering with the edges of a failed agreement.

We will then have the Belfast Agreement Mark II. A new agreement that is democratically based cannot have terrorists and war criminals in the government of Northern Ireland, regardless of their mandate.