Michael Stone

I am very glad that he is going to back to prison. But I wish that he were taking him with the fully armed and highly active Marxist terrorist organisation that has now carved up the government of Northern Ireland with a bizarre fundamentalist sect unconnected to mainstream Ulster Protestantism.

Such have proved the eventual fruits of Stormont, and of the failure of Labour, in particular, to field candidates in Northern Ireland.

Those calling for yet further powers for the devolved body in Scotland (although the mind boggles as to what exactly, and it never received fifty per cent support even as it is), those calling for further powers for the devolved body in Wales (only ever supported by about a quarter of the electorate anyway, a quarter which did not include the majority even of those who voted in solidly Welsh-speaking Ceredigion, Flintshire, Denbighshire or Wrexham), those seriously calling for the national political parties in Scotland to declare UDI (thus disenfranchising Scottish voters at General Elections), and those who will soon enough make such serious calls in Wales, think on.