A bomb in London, and it would probably be London, would get Britain out of Northern Ireland within six months, and possibly within six weeks.
Entirely regardless of what anyone living there might think, and entirely regardless of whether or not the Republic would be prepared to take the place.
Entirely regardless of what anyone living there might think, and 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 no British Government would ever countenance that again. None.
No one in Whitehall really cares that the Irish blow each other up in Ireland. But no British Government would ever countenance that again. None.
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.
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.
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