RIP thread

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

David Trimble, massively overrated politician who had to be strongarmed into accepting the Good Friday Agreement and spent the rest of his career complaining about having to share power with the "Taigs", pegged it.

Of all the GFA signatories, he was the least active in making sure it happened.  All the credit goes to John Major and Tony Blair, John Hume and Seamus Mallon, John Bruton and Bertie Ahearn, George Mitchell and Bill Clinton and finally Gerrry Adams and Martin McGuinness for finally ending the PIRA's campaign of murder and bringing them to the peace table.

Good assessment. There’s precious little double that, if left to his own devices, Trimble would have gutted the GFA to the point of toothlessness. It was largely Hume and McGuinness (and not inconsiderable pressure from the Americans) that kept him from doing so.

Boru