Mr. Rory Montgomery:

I am not going to run through the individual political leaders, if that is okay. There is always a tendency to look back and think that the people we knew when we were young were giants and the people who are younger than us somehow are pygmies. It is not that way. People simply rise to the occasion and emerge, quite rightly. I think the biggest single problem at the moment, if I am being frank about it, is the enormous lack of confidence and negativity within political unionism. I do not really know how that should be dealt with. It is interesting. Reading the Slugger O'Toole website, one can see that lots of people from a unionist background are saying precisely that. For all that David Trimble was difficult, he had a strategic idea about what he wanted to achieve, which I just do not see at present. I see people acting tactically and not very cleverly tactically either. That is the main problem. It is not for me to say, but I think it is the single biggest thing that we lack. There has always been a requirement for nationalism to try to be as genuinely understanding of unionism and as magnanimous as it can be, without diluting its principles. That does not always come easily. It cannot come easily for reasons that we understand. On an entirely personal note, I was glad to see that the First Minister-elect, as it were, has written to the Queen, praising her role in Northern Ireland over the years. That is an important gesture. I hope all of us on the island of Ireland who are not unionists will be able to contribute to this union of hearts.