Abuse of privilege
Observers of Westminster will have seen how the cowardly MP for Upper Bann, David Simpson, used parliamentary privilege to make unfounded allegations against Sinn Fein MLA Francie Molloy. Simpson is a biggotted pea-brained thug – just ask David Trimble. But of course such cowardly behaviour is not unusual for Unionist MPs. I remember a similar abuse of parliamentary privilege by the late Reverend Robert Bradford, and we all know what happened to him.
But one thing which did not happen to Simpson was that he was not called to account for his actions by the Speaker, who may well have been asleep or on a toilet-break. There are some elements within Unionism who, in spite of the Peace Process, just can’t resist any attempt to give a dig to a tague.
