Including the Queen.
Today, Her Majesty and His Eminence effectively endorsed each other. How could broadly the same constituency possibly get rid of either of them after this?
Not that almost anyone in it wants to have in theory the same finance ministry as Estonia or Cyprus, though in practice the finance ministry of Germany alone, anyway. Nor do they want to be charged every time that they visit the doctor or go into hospital. But the schools in the 26 Counties might very well turn out to be a different proposition, and by no means only for one side, once those in the Six Counties have been ruined by Sinn Féin.
Ah, yes, Sinn Féin. Rising radical party of the Left in the 26 Counties. Queen-greeting party of bourgeois cultural Nationalism in the Six Counties, where it is implementing exactly the policies against which it is campaigning on the rest of the island (much as the UUP implemented the policies of the Attlee Government at Stormont even while voting against them in accordance with the Conservative Whip at Westminster), keeping it in with the likes of Representative Peter King. What do they have in common? Once the practically knighted Adams and McGuinness generation is out of the way, then the organic split will be inevitable.
Does HM really not have the prerogative to excuse herself from having to meet Mr McGuinnesss like this?
ReplyDeleteAnd if not, then what is the point of the whole royal conceit anyway? And if by chance she does have a de facto choice, then what does it say of her agreeing to shake his hand in the first place?