This is a conversation between two men who both share a very direct style of communication. It's interesting too, because it represents countless other conversations that have abounded since the Belfast Agreement. The interview coincides with the publication of a new biography of Ervine, by Henry Sinnerton.
He talks about the proposed exlcusion of Sinn Fein from the Executive
“When I view the potential for January I’m saying to myself, ‘What is it Trimble wants? How many hoops have people to jump through?’ What I am clear on is what the Republican Movement and loyalists need to do. Back off from the interfaces. Stop playing games and telling your own constituency lies.”
Morisson asks for an example:
“That there’ll be a united Ireland in sixteen years. It’s not going to happen. I can understand that one needs to make a constituency feel comfortable. But you can’t tell a constituency it is achieving victory when it is not. You’ve got to understand how unionism works. There is a huge insecurity within unionism. Unionism really hasn’t had time to settle. They feel that the republican agitation is never going to stop. The one thing that unionists lust for is stability. It’s the one thing they have never had.”
Thanks to Paul Dunne at Shamrockshire Eagle for this.
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