The
coda on Dolours Price's article, 'Flying
the Flag' concerning its treatment at Mary Mac
Donald's EU election victory and Adams' dismissal
thereof brought to mind similar treatment it recieved
at a Progressive Democrat annual conference some two
years ago. There, a Dublin delegate marched onto the
platform with a crumpled mass of green,white and orange,
excoriated PSF for abusing it and then tossed it to
one side and continued with his address; an adjacent
similarity to the other that they share with PSF,
namely a prostitution of principle in search of 'power'.
But the ultimate degradation of the national flag
is surely the preserve of PSF. One of the first actions
taken by Martin Mc Guinness and Barbara Brown as Stormont
Ministers was to seek in a BRITISH court a BRITISH
judicial ruling that the Irish flag should have equal
status to the British flag in .....Ireland. Not content
with degrading it on the attaining of a banana measurer
for Brussels but to degrade it to the British judicial
system vindicates your editor's conclusion, 'more
days on the beach'.
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