Sunday 7 September 2008

Sammy Wilson

He survived several years with Ian Paisley as his presumptive future father-in-law (Rhoda Paisley was even his Lady Mayoress when he was Lord Mayor of Belfast). He survived telling Big Ian that it wouldn’t be happening.

Yes, he probably believes that the Pope is the Antichrist, although there are of course definitive Catholic answers to that readily available. And yes, he voted to bang people up for six weeks without even charging them with anything.

But he is a die-hard working-class economic populist, moral and social conservative, and British and Commonwealth patriot.

And, in that very vein, is there another Environment Minister in Europe who could have said this? Why not?

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