No taunting

No, I'm not on about Saddam's execution. The Sinn Féin leadership is clearly having difficulty marshalling its rank-and-file supporters behind St Andrews. This, as I say, will take time - in fact if it didn't it would lack credibility.

Ian Paisley Jnr is in the wings shouting, "I think you can smell the panic in Sinn Fein from this latest statement. They know what republicans have to do".

Look, son, if you want them to deliver stop taunting them like a spoilt schoolchild. Give them time and show a bit of restraint and mature understanding because, believe you me, the Hell scenario here is not continued English rule, it's Gerry, Martin and Gerry saying yes while half the Republican movement splinters off into active service units.

Grow up.