He said that unionists had felt, since the signing of the Good Friday agreement almost two years ago, that their interests were being ignored and he claimed the Patten report on policing in Northern Ireland had served as a "constant gnawing reminder" of that fact.
He pointed out that having founded the FN and "led it during a period of 40 years of constant adversity" he considered himself a good "locomotive" to head the local regional election campaign.
It was repeated throughout the show's three hours as a constant reminder to listeners that – whatever Barclays' staggeringly broad sins of the past (mis-selling, rigging interest rates, violating sanctions) – it is now firmly on the side of the angels.
But we have graphic quotes to prove that Labor only turned back to Rudd under the most extreme duress - constant and unwavering polling indicating almost certain political oblivion.
But if it becomes so, the danger is that Uefa or Fifa could ask the SFA why constant legal challenges and negative publicity have overshadowed the season.
On the one hand, unionist and loyalist confidence in the British government has never been revived since 1985, while on the other, the constant shots across the bow from a highly confident Sinn Fein have shredded the nerves of those who turned up to protest about the flag being removed.
Lucas Scherdel, national director, Medsin UK "The NHS has suffered badly from the instability caused by constant reorganisation, and funding policies that have made it harder for hospitals, GPs and community services to work together to improve patient care.
One item to savour from the campaign was the constant refrain, not least by businesspeople in the Financial Times, that the Conservatives were the party of wealth creation.
An inquest found last month that Harris, 53, of Bristol, who was partially sighted, took her own life after months of constant pain and following a "fit for work" ruling that replaced her incapacity benefit with jobseeker's allowance.
There were dark nights for Rudd after his defenestration but it remained a constant comfort that he had never been rejected by the Australian people.
Gillard backer Gary Gray said he had agreed to stay on as resources minister, but was still blunt in his assessment that Gillard's leadership had been killed off by a constant campaign of destabilisation by Rudd supporters.
