Straight answers
After Mark Durkan's confirmation on Inside Politics that he planned to step down as SDLP leader, some critics attacked him as naive, claiming he had made himself a "lame duck". The implication was that, even though he had already told colleagues of his plans, he should have palmed me off with a holding line.
Having been criticised by Gerry Adams for asking "stupid questions" and then been faced with spin bordering on disinformation at the time of Ian Paisley's departure, I have to say that I found it refreshing to get a straight answer to a straight question. Who knows, it might just catch on.
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Mark, you really are naive if you think anyone, even a BBC political reporter, will receive a straight answer from the increasingly fascist DUP nad their mentors Sinn Fein.
The public have come to realise the inexorable truth behind the Stormont arrangement. The lack of response to your Heath Robinson thread indicates that insiders recognise the depth of the problem but want to bury their heads. No one of substance wants to admit that they backed the wrong horse but are content to watch them trot off to the glue factory.
Meanwhile 150 beds to close at the main Belfast hospitals when the flu season is getting underway and no outcry from the MLAs. P&J becomes part of a jolly trip and PR stunt. Durkan's revelation is a tacit admission that he and his party are done.
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AMEN to that , Brother Mark !
If only politicians WOULD give us a few more straight answers, especially if the answers were not always in their party's best interests, they would endear themselves to us, the punters who put them there in the first place.
The sooner political spin is deemed to be illegal the better.
Dr Goebell's efforts in World War II were kingergarten stuff compared to the Mandys and Campbells of this world !
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Mark,
It is rare that any politician gives any straight answers. The fact that Mark Durkan did surprises me. 1 question I would love you to answer Mark - Who in the SDLP knew Mark Durkan would stand down? The Deputy leader Alastair McDonnell claims he didn't know.
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