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发帖数: 1 | 2 I'm a NI resident and beneficiary of the Good Friday Agreement and Mr Hain's
St Andrew's Agreement. By "beneficiary" I mean that my children have been
spared the horror of bombs, bullets and blood on their home streets that I
witnessed as a child and teenager.
NI was always the Gordian Knot that exposed the abject stupidity, fallacy,
deceit and dishonesty behind the entire Brexit project. During and after the
2016 referendum I felt like a Cassandra, constantly wailing about the
incompatibility of Brexit with the parity of esteem precept of the Good
Friday Agreement and warning that it was going to result in some form of
border that would inflame inter-community tensions and possibly lead to the
recrudescence of violence. The apoplectic anger I felt manifested in several
vituperative letters to Tory politicians (including a 2,000 word furious
denunciation to David Frost), all of which remain unacknowledged -
symptomatic of their utter contempt and indifference to the concerns of the
six counties.
The rising tension in NI caused by Brexit is a stark reminder of the
abrogation of responsibilities by this government as co-guarantor of peace
in NI. That a British prime minister would so frivolously risk the
rekindling of a violent sectarian conflict in a region of their own country
is an utterly damning indictment of Tory Brexiteers, their debased ideology
and their crooked motivations. They have stoked the most reactionary, bitter
, hysterical and paranoid sensibility in NI - the loyalist sense of
grievance. Unionism in NI is playing with fire at the minute by agitating
loyalism and they'll have blood on their hands if loyalism mobilises.
We in NI find ourselves in an unenviable no-man's land. Victim's of a three
card trick pulled by the confederation of vested interests that enabled
Brexit, corralled into a constitutional quandary not of our making and
menaced again by the spectre of violence. We can only pray that loyalism
does not use Brexit/the Protocol as a casus belli, for if it does, God help
us. And all for what? Sovereignty? How's that working out? We've a
delinquent PM and a cabinet gone rogue, both acting in concert to undermine
the institutions designed to fetter abuse of power.
It is a lamentable state of affairs that has been bequeathed to the people
of NI by these political vandals. History will not judge them kindly. |
