Godwin's Law Revisited
Godwin's Law on the was last invoked when Fr. Alec Reid
It came back to me when I looked at Jim Allister's on the EU leaders' treatment of Irish voters having "something of the SS about it". Not sure Angela Merkel would be best pleased.
Declan O'Loan has also been exercising his totalitarian analogies, comparing the First and Deputy First Ministers' treatment of the Assembly with the old Soviet Union. "The proposals that they should cut First Minister's Question Time by half" the SDLP MLA argued "could have been written by Josef Stalin himself".
Let's hope that neither the Irish electorate nor the Committee on Procedures adopt a policy of Neville Chamberlain style appeasement to the EU-OFMDFM Fascist Stalinist Coalition or I shall run out of unlikely World War Two analogies quicker than you can say the words
P.S. Mark Durkan takes a lot of flak over his metaphors, but I must admit this morning's comment on the year long extension for loyalist decommissioning ("It's Johnny Logan politics: What's another year?") was a classic of the genre.
P.P.S. Just realised I wrote "Joseph Chamberlain" as opposed to Neville, thus ruining my own punchline. Now amended - what do you expect from the correspondent who once went on Radio 4 talking about "bringing the Mountain to Methuselah"?
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