In the years since, unionism has continued to retreat in the city where only one of the four MPs returned to Westminster is now a unionist.ĭespite the mounting evidence that their beloved province is taking on water, they are praying that everything is well and that the tide of a United Ireland can be held back.īut while unionists refuse to change, all around them society is moving on, leaving the diehards with nothing to cling to but their red, white and blue flags and their Orange parades. Peeved, St Peter responded: “Come to your rescue? Sure Our Lord sent a motorboat and a helicopter to save you and you turned both away.” “Despite all my prayers, God did not come to my rescue.” “I was drowned in a flood,” replied the recently deceased. “How did you die,” asked the guardian of the pearly gates. Shortly afterwards, he drowned and appeared before St Peter at the Gates of Heaven.
