Too many phoney tributes to Paisley

Listening to the litany of phoney tributes being peddled in the media following the death of Rev Ian Paisley was vomit inducing.

Too many phoney tributes to Paisley

Normally, if I can find nothing positive to say about a political foe at the time of eternal parting I would say nothing at all, but on this occasion I am making a considered exception.

Ian Paisley was a malevolent, nasty, sectarian bigot who led thousands of loyalists down an anti-Catholic cul-de-sac, and then this religious ogre stood by as the lumpen rabble of loyalism engaged in a campaign of random murder of Catholics for decades.

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