A few posts back I complained that politicians here had little to no understanding of business. In response to this most of the “negotiators” in the policing and justice talks at Stormont have decided to refer only to “product”. The use of this word is to convey that their intense negotiating efforts are focused on the creation of a great thing…a monumental, sculptured and highly desirable object. And, for some reason, the only thing, the only object, the only “product” that my mind will introduce when they make reference to it, is a giant Duracell bunny. There it is, towering above the Carson memorial with Ulster’s cast of political characters standing around it, looking proud.
Perhaps a psychiatrist could help explain why it is that in the midst of yet another assembly near-death experience, when earnest, and dour, Unionists and Nationalists are huddled in crisis talks and coin this this new product word, used to imply – I think – a draft agreement, all I can think of is a big, pink fluffy bunny. I dunno.
Gregory Campbell, speaking on Radio Ulster this morning, went even further. He talked about wanting to see and touch the product. And there it happened again. This vision popped into my mind of Gregory’s skinny little thin-lipped face pulled, at last, into a tight smile, hugging his big, stupid-looking pink bunny.
But as Gregory proceeded through his interview this morning on Good Morning Ulster, the language got more contorted. Product was introduced time and time again, interspersed with references to community this and community that and it became obvious that there was some type of anorakical debating point being introduced for the benefit of Sinn Fein. The lexicon and the double-speak became so inpenetrable that not even the pink bunny could help me.
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