Sunday 10 July 2011

Loyalty Is A Two-Way Street

More than half of those who vote for the SDLP or Sinn Féin for habitual, tribal or local reasons may have worked out that being charged for visiting the doctor was an unattractive prospect even before the country where such charges were levied became a failed state.

For that matter, the people of that failed state are in no hurry, to put it at its very mildest, to pay every year the amount by which Britain has recently bailed them out, which is what it would cost to maintain British levels of public spending in Northern Ireland.

But some people always did know the first part, at least. A carve-up between Sinn Féiners and what are now essentially middle-class fundamentalists does not include them. As we now see.

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