13 Apr DAME Arlene Foster has slammed Joe Biden saying: “He hates the UK.”
DAME Arlene Foster has slammed Joe Biden saying: “He hates the UK.”
In an exclusive interview with GB News, Ms Foster also said Mr Biden’s visit to Northern Ireland “won’t put any pressure on the DUP” because “he’s seen by so many people as simply pro-republic”.
Speaking to Dan Wootton she said: “He talks about the Belfast agreement and coming to celebrate the Belfast Agreement. The Belfast Agreement is very clear that Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom until such times as people in Northern Ireland decide otherwise. And he needs to remember that when he’s talking about the Belfast Agreement, because we know that he is the most partisan President there has ever been when dealing with Northern Ireland.
“This goes right back to the 1980s when we did actually have a special relationship with the then United States President Ronald Reagan and our own Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. And at that time, as a senator Joe Biden spoke against helping to extradite IRA suspects to the United Kingdom to face trial.
“And of course, he revelled in the fact that he told a story about his mother refusing to sleep in a bed because Her late Majesty the Queen had slept in the bed.
“So it goes on and on. He hates the United Kingdom. I don’t think there’s any doubt about that. And I just think the fact that he’s coming here won’t put any pressure on the Democratic Unionist Party at all, quite the reverse, actually, because he’s seen by so many people as just simply pro-Republican and pro-nationals.
“I don’t think he has any kudos with the Democratic Unionist Party at all.
“He has no standing with them. I mean it comes to something when even Tony Blair cautioned the president to be careful and to be sensitive, and to not put on the pressure of the DUP because he knows that there’s a need to be balanced in dealing with Northern Ireland and Joe Biden is anything but balanced.”
