Hain's DUP "sweetener" exposed - Stormont brouhaha fogs the issue

Northern Ireland Secretary of State and wannabe Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Mr Peter Hain appointed Mrs Bertha McDougall as Interim Commissioner for Victims and Survivors of the Troubles last year.

Bertha is is the widow of a police reservist killed by the INLA (Dirty Catholic bastards) in 1981 and her appointment and the method of appointment was challenged by Brenda Downes, whose husband Sean was killed by an RUC (Dirty Prod bastards) plastic bullet in west Belfast in 1984.

Having reviewed the appointment Mr Justice Girvan taking the role of Solomon, said the appointment of Bertha McDougall by Mr Peter Hain, was in breach of "the accepted merit norms concerning public appointments" and he also called for a high-level inquiry.

Mr Justice Girvan held that Mr Hain had been motivated by an improper political purpose, namely a confidence-building gesture to the DUP.

The judge ruled Mr Hain had failed to take account of the fact there was no evidential basis for concluding that Mrs McDougall would command cross-community support....which doesn't need a degree in post conflict studies in Northern Ireland to work out.

What this means , is Peter Hain has been caught bang to rights in the process of hornswoggling, influence peddling, public office jiggery pokery to buy off Ian Paisley's DUP in the vain hope this would help buy their support for political agreement on power sharing with the IRA Sinn Fein .

The breach of security at Stormont, on Friday by the well known and readily identifiable Michael Stone, captured on camera, swift and unequivocal suspension of his Easter Day rising parole licence and return to jail , the absurd charges of attempting to murder IRA's Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness are NOT a handy smokescreen to hastily remind the DUP that Peter Hain still calls the shots on all their salaries.

Mr Peter Hain is a man of probity and deep integrity and anything that may or may not have happened can be blamed on is the responsibility of civil servants, someone else .er ... that's it. The spooky guys also had nothing to do with this. Honestly. Lord Patel overheard someone in the bar of the Horse Guards Hotel telling someone.