Nancy Pelosi confirms what everyone already knew. In any dispute between Britain and Ireland, then Ireland would have the full support of the United States.
For example, there would be no Anglo-American trade deal against the wishes of the Irish Government. That is just that.
Think of those Saint Patrick's Day celebrations at the White House, and then consider that independent Ireland has never fought in any war alongside the United States. Not one. Ever.
But that does not matter. While the rest of us have to pay our dues over and over and over again, America's love for Ireland is absolute and unconditional. As we now see. Again.
All in all, it is no wonder that yesterday's event for the fiftieth anniversary of Operation Banner was quite so muted. It is all going to turn out to have been for nothing.
The Conservative Party membership in the country at large would cheerfully see Northern Ireland, like Scotland or anything else, go for the sake of Brexit. That entity should be given the dignity of 100 years, far longer than anyone expected it to last in 1922. But its chances of lasting any longer than that are now vanishingly slim.
As much as anything else, Munira Mirza is now the Director of Boris Johnson's Number 10 Policy Unit. The Revolutionary Communist Party has now entered Government. Real Trotskyists, who really did support the Provisional IRA.
And the rest. Through the Irish Freedom Movement, the RCP opposed the Good Friday Agreement because it was still not the 32 County Republic, and supported those who fought on. Barely 20 years later, that tendency is now directing the Number 10 Policy Unit.
The Conservative Party membership in the country at large would cheerfully see Northern Ireland, like Scotland or anything else, go for the sake of Brexit. That entity should be given the dignity of 100 years, far longer than anyone expected it to last in 1922. But its chances of lasting any longer than that are now vanishingly slim.
As much as anything else, Munira Mirza is now the Director of Boris Johnson's Number 10 Policy Unit. The Revolutionary Communist Party has now entered Government. Real Trotskyists, who really did support the Provisional IRA.
And the rest. Through the Irish Freedom Movement, the RCP opposed the Good Friday Agreement because it was still not the 32 County Republic, and supported those who fought on. Barely 20 years later, that tendency is now directing the Number 10 Policy Unit.
That old RCP crowd has a very colourful history. That ridiculous Aaronovitch creature, who has baggage of his own, once tried to link Jeremy Corbyn to Red Action, but it was in fact the lot who are now around Spiked, and several of whom are friends of mine, who were part of the Red Front electoral coalition with Red Action and others in 1987.
Red Action were no mere cheerleaders for the Provisional IRA and for the INLA. Two members were convicted of the Harrods bombing in 1993, and there have long been questions about its role in that year's Warrington bombing.
Yet today, Red Action's electoral allies from the height of the Troubles direct the Number 10 Policy Unit while also forming a key component of the Brexit Party, with several stalwarts already selected as its parliamentary candidates, and with several more to come. No one with anything remotely approaching that kind of background is anywhere near Jeremy Corbyn or even John McDonnell.
Then again, this can be seen as providing some sort of balance to the people who have spent the last two years in power but not in office. Sammy Wilson, who was then the DUP's Press Officer and who is now one of its MPs, chaired the founding rally of the Ulster Resistance, which has never disbanded or disarmed in any way. Ian Paisley (the Elder, so to speak) spoke at that rally, as did Peter Robinson and Ivan Foster.
Emma Little-Pengelly, who is now the DUP MP for Belfast South, is the daughter of Noel Little of the Paris Three. She owed her election in 2017, for a somewhat improbable seat, to the concerted efforts of the local Loyalist paramilitary organisations, to whom she extended barely coded thanks in her acceptance speech.
The Ulster Political Research Group's magazine The Loyalist said that it, "would strongly urge a vote for Emma Little-Pengelly." The UPRG is in fact the Ulster Defence Association. Little-Pengelly, Nigel Dodds and Gavin Robinson were all elected with the endorsement of the Loyalist Communities Council, which is supported by the UDA, by the Ulster Volunteer Force, and by the Red Hand Commando. She has defended the flying of UVF flags in her constituency. This is the Government's majority of one.
Corbyn is supposed to bring all manner of extremists into Government. But one of the most disappointing things about him is how boilerplate so much of it is, while many very original thinkers who initially supported him have not been brought on as they should have been. The Corbyn circle is downright dull compared to Boris Johnson's court of Dominic Cummings and of Steve Bannon, of the Ulster Resistance and of the Irish Freedom Movement allies of the Harrods bombers.
Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. A new party is now in the process of registration. I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham even if I can raise only the deposit, which I could do by going pretty overdrawn, although that was not how I was brought up. Buy the book here.
I would still prefer to raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign, but I am no longer making my candidacy conditional on having done so. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
Red Action were no mere cheerleaders for the Provisional IRA and for the INLA. Two members were convicted of the Harrods bombing in 1993, and there have long been questions about its role in that year's Warrington bombing.
Yet today, Red Action's electoral allies from the height of the Troubles direct the Number 10 Policy Unit while also forming a key component of the Brexit Party, with several stalwarts already selected as its parliamentary candidates, and with several more to come. No one with anything remotely approaching that kind of background is anywhere near Jeremy Corbyn or even John McDonnell.
Then again, this can be seen as providing some sort of balance to the people who have spent the last two years in power but not in office. Sammy Wilson, who was then the DUP's Press Officer and who is now one of its MPs, chaired the founding rally of the Ulster Resistance, which has never disbanded or disarmed in any way. Ian Paisley (the Elder, so to speak) spoke at that rally, as did Peter Robinson and Ivan Foster.
Emma Little-Pengelly, who is now the DUP MP for Belfast South, is the daughter of Noel Little of the Paris Three. She owed her election in 2017, for a somewhat improbable seat, to the concerted efforts of the local Loyalist paramilitary organisations, to whom she extended barely coded thanks in her acceptance speech.
The Ulster Political Research Group's magazine The Loyalist said that it, "would strongly urge a vote for Emma Little-Pengelly." The UPRG is in fact the Ulster Defence Association. Little-Pengelly, Nigel Dodds and Gavin Robinson were all elected with the endorsement of the Loyalist Communities Council, which is supported by the UDA, by the Ulster Volunteer Force, and by the Red Hand Commando. She has defended the flying of UVF flags in her constituency. This is the Government's majority of one.
Corbyn is supposed to bring all manner of extremists into Government. But one of the most disappointing things about him is how boilerplate so much of it is, while many very original thinkers who initially supported him have not been brought on as they should have been. The Corbyn circle is downright dull compared to Boris Johnson's court of Dominic Cummings and of Steve Bannon, of the Ulster Resistance and of the Irish Freedom Movement allies of the Harrods bombers.
Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. A new party is now in the process of registration. I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham even if I can raise only the deposit, which I could do by going pretty overdrawn, although that was not how I was brought up. Buy the book here.
I would still prefer to raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign, but I am no longer making my candidacy conditional on having done so. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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