Dredging up Bloody Sunday again, from any side, is a very bad idea, even if it will tickle the odder among us to be reminded of the strange little world of the Official IRA. But this is happening because the most powerful political party in the United Kingdom, and itself not always the strongest supporter of the security forces in Northern Ireland, insists that it happen.
Unless she sticks it out until the next General Election, then Theresa May's replacement will be a Conservative, but the Conservative Party will have nothing more than the most superficial role in deciding which one. That choice will be made by the DUP. That party would still balk at a Catholic. And it would more than balk at a man who voted for same-sex marriage and who was rather more than a purely legislative supporter of abortion.
If I were David Davis, who even voted with the DUP (and with Jeremy Corbyn) against intervention in Syria on the side that is now IS, then I would be sitting very pretty indeed.
Bloody Sunday, like Srebrenica, was a propaganda gift to all the wrong people that has been exploited to justify all manner of evil over the last few decades.
ReplyDeleteAs I said, dredging up Bloody Sunday again, from any side, is a very bad idea.
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