tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post7084544121496376854..comments2009-11-14T21:03:24.689ZComments on The Pensive Quill: The Deputy.AMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-42811563743010489092009-11-14T19:59:58.585Z2009-11-14T19:59:58.585ZDeputy Martin's indignant retort (being mindfu...Deputy Martin's indignant retort (being mindful of his party's Hansard friendly Stormont reformism)reminds me of a Spotlight documentary on the Royal Irish Rangers,it showed a catholic soldier with a tricolour above his bunk surrounded by other bunks draped in loyalist regalia.The soldier in question knew he was now a 'Brit', taken the proverbial queens shilling etc but felt the need to retain some vestige of irish identity even if it only was ever going to amount to a mouse's roar!<br /><br />The Provisonal's genteel politicking is making the old hibernian Nationalist Party in stormont mk1 now seem like the ultra-left wing of the Dervish anarchist league!<br /><br />Somehow,I cant help thinking that a possible Tory regime may not be just as indulgent a nursey nurse with these stormont kindergarten parliamentarians.ISKRAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03065833901884525518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-68970421222096142432009-11-13T23:53:28.892Z2009-11-13T23:53:28.892ZAhh--- to bend like the willow in the wind--so tac...Ahh--- to bend like the willow in the wind--so tactically brilliant,but to bend like a wanton in heat,so lamentable!uilodomhnaillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06302217281273665271noreply@blogger.com