If there really are 700 MI5 officers on standby in Belfast, and I cannot imagine who has told The Times that, then expect bombs to go off morning, noon and night in order to justify that agency's existence, back up its demands for more money, and bring about one the British Deep State's most cherished aspirations, that of finally getting rid of the Irish Question.
A Unionist view on Northern Ireland as a matter of principle has always been peripheral to the politics of Great Britain. A very long time ago, people who had only been token appointments in the first place would very occasionally resign from the margins of Conservative Governments because of some or other apparent betrayal of it. But that was all, and even that would never happen now.
In all fairness, MI5 is doubtless also working to stop a bomb from going off in London, and it would probably be London. But that would get Britain out of Northern Ireland within six months, and possibly within six weeks, entirely regardless of whether or not the Republic would be prepared to take the place.
Any whiff of a return to all of that, and Britain, always the biggest cutter and runner in the world, would cut and run. No one in Whitehall really cares that the Irish blow each other up in Ireland. But British Government would countenance that again. None.
London was made to pay the price of the principles of the right wing of Fleet Street, which took the train home to leafy suburbia and the Home Counties every evening. Over long, long years, London always expressed its unwillingness to pay that price, never losing an opportunity to elect Ken Livingstone, John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn. Well, not until the Mayoral Election of 2008, long after this had apparently ceased to be an issue.
But the days of people who know nothing of terrorism pontificating about it over the heads of people who do are as numbered as the days of people, very often the same people, who know nothing of poverty pontificating about it over the heads of people who do.
In all fairness, MI5 is doubtless also working to stop a bomb from going off in London, and it would probably be London. But that would get Britain out of Northern Ireland within six months, and possibly within six weeks, entirely regardless of whether or not the Republic would be prepared to take the place.
Any whiff of a return to all of that, and Britain, always the biggest cutter and runner in the world, would cut and run. No one in Whitehall really cares that the Irish blow each other up in Ireland. But British Government would countenance that again. None.
London was made to pay the price of the principles of the right wing of Fleet Street, which took the train home to leafy suburbia and the Home Counties every evening. Over long, long years, London always expressed its unwillingness to pay that price, never losing an opportunity to elect Ken Livingstone, John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn. Well, not until the Mayoral Election of 2008, long after this had apparently ceased to be an issue.
But the days of people who know nothing of terrorism pontificating about it over the heads of people who do are as numbered as the days of people, very often the same people, who know nothing of poverty pontificating about it over the heads of people who do.
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