That's complete nonsense. Free trade with the UK (East West) is what the backstop is all about and you know it.The example of Simon Varadkar rising to the SF bait and making Brexit a sectarian red liner hasn’t helped but that is covered in another forum.
On that I completely agree. The New IRA hadn't blown up any children yet therefore so far they are not as bad as the Provisional IRA or their remaining political wing.As a final point on this subject. The revolting apology by the New IRA followed by putting the blame on British oppression has been roundly rejected by nearly everyone including the good people of Derry. Yet this was routine copy for the Old IRA over more than 25 years. But their exploits are now the subject of almost weekly commemoration by the leaders of SF. The New IRA are no worse than the Old IRA, just have less support.
Let's not go too far off topic but I am tired hearing the Backstop being linked with the GFI. So far as I am aware the GFI was not registered with the WTO as a free trade agreement.That's complete nonsense. Free trade with the UK (East West) is what the backstop is all about and you know it.
There is no doubt that NI is more sectarian than ever.
The example of Simon Varadkar rising to the SF bait and making Brexit a sectarian red liner hasn’t helped but that is covered in another forum.
The political void at Stormont was in no way responsible for this killing
Dissidents hate political accommodation.
We should also note that the rate of innocent victims of criminal gangs is at least as high in the normal civilized South as it is in the North.
it really sticks in my craw the (SF) narrative that there were three of them in it, the IRA, the Loyalists and the Brits.
Let's not go too far off topic but I am tired hearing the Backstop being linked with the GFI. So far as I am aware the GFI was not registered with the WTO as a free trade agreement.
The phrase "32 county socialist Irish republic" scares the bejesus out of me. The 32 county part isn't the scary bit.I come from a background of supporting a 32 county socialist Irish republic
The phrase "32 county socialist Irish republic" scares the bejesus out of me. The 32 county part isn't the scary bit.
In the dark old days of the 1960s mainsteam politics in NI was the monopoly of "sensible" people on both sides, the Nationalists and the Unionists. No sight of SF/IRA or the Paisleyites. Now 21 years after the historic "peace" settlement politics is dominated by SF/IRA and the Paisleyites.
Good riposteCareful there Duke. You may find yourself quoted in support of the argument that the progress made in NI in the last 50 years was down to the emergence of "SF/IRA or the Paisleyites"
Isn't the problem though that the electorate still see themselves as one side or the other and neither side trusts the other. Those voting SF are often doing it to dilute the strength of the DUP - believing that it gives "their side" a stronger hand than say a vote for Alliance would. e.g. "If we vote Alliance them uns will still vote DUP and then where will we be" and vice versa. Until the electorate no longer see themselves as being on one side I don't see that changing.The only way to break the deadlock is to "put manners" on the DUP and SF by voting for moderate parties. You can't go to a vigil for Lyra, say its awful they won't get on and show leadership and then vote for SF or the DUP.
I'd use it as the excuse to get religion totally out of education North and South, no State funding unless de-labelled and min cross-community attendance appropriate to the area - maybe they'd see that as an attack but it would be an 'attack' on all religion with the justification of if you don't know your neighbours how is society ever going to normalise).
John Fitzgerald has an excellent piece on the lamentable state of Northern Ireland's education system in today's Irish Times.I agree with the idea of removing religion from education.
However, Protestant kids in NI mostly go to state schools, Catholic kids go to Catholic schools.
Removing religion from education is seen by Catholics and the broader Green community (I disagree with describing them as nationalist) as an attempt at diluting or removing their identity. And perhaps not without reason.
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