Just read one of the softest interview I've seen in a long while in the Irish Times about Dawn Purvis and the PUP who are laughingly referred to as a left-wing grouping. http://www.dawnpurvis.com/?p=337
No where in the article is Dawn asked about her attitude to the Orange Order or sectarianism in general. She says she broke away from the PUP over the killing of Bobby Moffat, but does not outline her attitude to sectarian loyalist paramilitaries in general. She also applauds the memory of David Ervine who never once rejected loyalism. People may applaud the 'bread and butter' politics of Dawn, but she has a hard journey ahead of her if she is ever to be described as as a socialist, ie a person who rejects sectarianism in all its forms and the causes behind it.
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