00:00to go over there and not to go over there.
00:02So we then side to side that sitting here and doing nothing
00:04is a good idea.
00:06Stats quo is not our friend.
00:08We have things that we need to change.
00:09We need to get on with changing it.
00:12And let's look and repeat and look back over history.
00:14What unionism has tended to do is go, well,
00:16there's the stats quo.
00:17We'll just have to try and defend it.
00:18How's that worked out first?
00:21So why would we persist with it?
00:22Your opponents tell you who they are.
00:31Before the election, Merrily Macdonald
00:33went down to court to look at McSwinney's
00:35and the court of mayor who was a pumper spout and all
00:39the rest of it.
00:40And his great line is that it's about who endures the most.
00:43And that's their mindset.
00:45What we have tended to have in unionism
00:47is spasms.
00:48We do a sprint.
00:51In a sprint race, we're in an Ironman challenge.
00:55We've endured to the length of who can, I think,
00:58outwork and outlast us.
00:59And that's the mindset we have to get into.
01:04This is the biggest challenge.
01:07Get the provost out of our heads.
01:10Terrorism, at its core, is psychological warfare.
01:15What they really do is get inside your head.
01:19Terrorist organizations are never
01:21going to be capable of killing the entire population
01:23of an area.
01:23They'll have lots of people wandering around
01:25before they do.
01:26They're very good at getting in your head.
01:29But if you allow them into your opponents' in your head,
01:32they've got the advantage.
01:33Anything you then develop will be a counter-strategy.
01:36We don't need a counter-strategy.
01:37We need a strategy.
01:39That's what we need to be developing.
01:43And it will be a challenge.
01:44And it's not easy.
01:45But it can end easily.
01:48You used the quote from Philip Hickey.
01:52The republicans are very good at the dead cat.
01:54Throwing them the dead cat.
01:55It's not the destructionism over here.
01:57It's the destructionism over there.
01:59It's all counter-strategy.
02:01And we need to step away from it and get away from it.
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