Eamonn McCann: Time To Tell The Truth About Ian Paisley

Opinion
05 Jul 19

Ian Paisley - UK Parliament official portraits 2017
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When there is mazooma to be made North of the border, it seems that the spectre of Ian Paisley is likely to be hovering close at hand. Why, having railed against the evils of online gambling, the MP for North Antrim is now happily receiving gifts from the betting giant, William Hill...

The pudgy prevaricator Boris Johnson has described French people as turds but, so far, hasn’t been given the heave-ho from public life. So it must be OK for me to call Ian Paisley a shit.

He’s also a sectarian bigot, a conman, a hypocrite, a guttersnipe, a liar and a parasite. But “shit” will do for the time being.

And this shit has form.