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November 29, 2003
Pandering to extremes
I suppose it was predictable that the Labour governments hatred of the Northern Ireland Unionist movement would lead them down the road of appeasing the IRA and its surrogates and mouthpieces. Petty revenge has a nasty habity of backfiring and I think this example just has. They seem not to have learned anything from the history of the last 50 years, or the several hundred before that.
Appeasing terrorists never works. Worse, it alienates the law abiding citizenry who suffer from the terrorists actions.
The Good Friday Agreement looks very good on paper. The devil is, as always, in the detail and the way this is applied. That is what has stuck very firmly in the craw of the Ulster Unionists and the electorate, who despite Mr Blair's attempts to sell them down the river and destroy the Union, have resisted this every step of the way. Blair and his cronies have done nothing but give way on every demand to the IRA and the Nationalists. If the Unionists protested, they were sneered at as dinosaurs and wreckers who refused to be reasonable. Now it has come home to bite.
The Devolved Assembly for Northern Ireland is now a definite non-starter. The Reverend Ian Paisley has been elected as the majority leader of the Assembly. Guess what? He will never, ever, sit down in the same house or the same chamber as Gerry Adams, one time Brigade Commander of the Provisional IRA for North Belfast and now Leader of the Nationalist Sinn Feinn party. For Sinn Feinn, read IRA Political Wing.
Why have the elctorate voted out the moderate Mr Trimble and elected Mr Paisley? Quite simply, because they are sick of Mr Blair's constant give aways to the terrorists who have now successfully bombed and shot their way to power - thanks to Blair and his spineless party.
Blair should have listened when Trimble warned him that the IRA merely saying they had decommissioned arms was not enough. The Assembly should have been given the details, but no, Blair had given in to the IRA demand that their decommisioning be kept "secret". The evidence on the street in Belfast and elsewhere is that decommisioning is a joke. Where do this collection of cretins that call themselves a government think all the hand guns and other lethal weapons now flooding into the UK in the hands of criminals are coming from? Do they really think that they can bomb Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda and at the same time buy off the murderers of the IRA?
Now they have a nice mess to deal with. The majority of the Northern Ireland population feel that peace at any price is too high a price. That is why they have voted for Paisley and his hardliners, that is why the government is treated with scorn by the electorate in the the Province. Good luck to Blair with his sell out tactics, he could have a real tiger by the tail with this one, and tigers are not animals to arouse.
Peace in our time? Not as long as you keep giving way to the man with the bombs Mr Blair. Ask Neville Chamberlain.
Posted by The Gray Monk at November 29, 2003 10:22 PM