Interesting on Ervine. I always thought that, despite his associations with dangerous nutters (and the Unionist paramilitaries always had a greater proportion of dangerous nutters than the Republicans, on the grounds that relatively sane people wanting to defend the Protestant community went into the RUC or UDR, whilst relatively sane people wanting to fight for the Catholic community had no-one apart from the IRA and splinters), he was often the voice of Protestant reason. It was he who said "we're very good in Ulster at asking for what we know we can't have and then complaining when we don't get it," which sums up a lot of the Unionist attitude to the peace process
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