Wednesday 26 May 2010

The Real IRA, Indeed

"By any yardstick, a serious matter."

If these really were "dissidents", then they would have been shot by now. But instead, "They haven't gone away, you know."

Overtly and covertly, why are we bankrolling Sinn Féin? I am not necessarily saying that we shouldn't. I am saying that, as with our creation of Fianna Fáil and de Valera's consequent mass hangings of IRA operatives, the deal has two sides. (For other reasons, we also created Fine Gael and the Irish Labour Party, while the SDLP General-Secretaryship has been an MI5 sinecure ever since the TUC was asked to suggest the first post-holder.)

When will the other party to that deal start keeping its side? Why is it not already doing so? What are we paying Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and all the rest of them for?

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