Stan Orme
Former Member of Parliament of the United KingdomWikipedia
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Oct 4, 2026
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The Northern Irish Government Executive met that Friday and gave their doleful reports and descended into bickering.
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Merlin Rees and Stan Orme were unusually present for a time.
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Rees was there to tell the members that they had to make a compromise on what form the main bone of contention, the Council of Ireland, the gateway of influence given to a foreign nation, would take.
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As a matter of urgency, given the Loyalist fury, nothing was agreed.
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Reid asked how Rees, the Secretary of State, could negotiate with the Ulster Workers' Council, a self-appointed body allied to the Power Militaries.
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According to Fisk, Garrett warned that public opinion would swing behind the strikers.
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At this point, the Under-Secretary of State, Stan Orme, the man accused of being too sympathetic to republicanism, arrived.
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This was a man who obsessed with the fascist nature of loyalism, derided it.
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But Faulkner took the oil contingency plan to Merlin Rees, knowing that the British Army were crucial instruments in this plan being a success.
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I reported to the executive, Faulkner relates in his memoirs, that Rees had readily agreed to the proposal of the previous day for the establishment of a standing committee of ministers under the chairmanship of the Secretary of State, that is Merlin Rees, or the Minister of State, Stanley Orme, to coordinate the civil and military aspects.
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The executive was to be represented by the Ministers of Commerce, again John Hulme, and the Minister of Environment, Roy Bradford, who had broken ranks at the weekend calling for talks and whose resignation had been refused, as well as the Minister of Manpower Services.
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Other ministers could be called upon as required, he said.