The DaSilva report, Stevens inquiries etc. showed collusion between English military and intelligence and loyalist death squads, including furnishing of firearms.
So the English armed their loyalist paramilitary death squads like the Shankhill butchers and then wash their hands of it all.
Why are English soldiers in Ireland any how?
I've seen "Brits out" and I know what it means. I've known innocent businessmen have their livelihoods ruined and their lives taken, all by the hands of various republican factions, just for being "collaborators".
I'll never forget Enniskillen, Omagh, Bloody Friday, the attempt at Tullyhommon, or the various other atrocities and the party in Stormount that lauds them.
Look up Barry McElduff and his shameless mocking of the Kingsmill atrocity. This happened as recently as 2018 and he is already back in Sinn Fein. Not something anyone does in the spirit of reconciliation.
I'm glad someone at least had the nerve to defend us from clear intimidation and death wishes.
To prevent widespread sectarian murdering and ethnic cleansing of both Catholic and Protestant communities, and because there Irish state is incapable of doing this.
No one in England wants anything to do with it anymore, is a mill stone round our neck.
The Alliance party, the non-aligned neo-liberal party here, had a massive jump in votes in the recent election.
The idea that if the British weren’t here people would instantly devolve into sectarian murders is completely laughable to me.
In my entire life I have never interacted with anyone who was sectarian. You see the areas with union flags strung up everywhere but as I say, these communities are completely insular and run by drug dealers hiding behind the aegis of shared ethnicity.
“A mill stone around our neck”, come off it, my eyes are rolling so hard in my head I fear they may roll under the sofa
I believe violence is only ever justified defensively and even then only as a last resort. The sooner that generation of parasitic drug barons either kill each other or die naturally the better for everyone.
But she wasn’t just straight up murdered like you claimed. She wasn’t even targeted, it was just a wrong place, wrong time situation.
I don’t say it to excuse what happened but the way you seem to be telling that story is just not what happened.
I think this is more a splintering of the unionist community as the DUP has taken a hardline and self-harming pro-Brexit, anti-protocol, no compromise approach. For the US readers, the DUP's social views would make many of the US republicans look liberal. Their last leader was ousted for merely abstaining on, rather than opposing, a ban on gay conversion therapy. Now the DUP is holding the entire NI political system to ransom unless they get their way.
There are many unionists who are done with that shit but are still pro-UK, and this is the group that flocked to alliance in large numbers last election.
Cutting and running when it gets hard in the colonies is more difficult when the colony is next door.
Said as someone in a former colony, with the country having all the expected post-colonial problems.
If that were the reason then they wouldn't have been deployed in places like Armagh where there was no community division.
The army were sent in for the same reason that the border was drawn where it was: to serve British financial interests.
> No one in England wants anything to do with it anymore, is a mill stone round our neck.
The IRA succeeded in making it more expensive than it was worth (although the collapse of the shipbuilding industry was probably the biggest single factor).
The Irish state isn't responsible for NI.
At one point the Irish government actually considered militarily intervening in NI, but the British would have seen that as an honest to God act of war.