The recent British budget announced by the Conservative and
Unionist Party saw huge cuts to
Disability payments while reducing tax rates for the wealthiest. The points made
below remain as relevant as ever. Edward Carson would be truly proud of his
later day soul mates.
Last Sunday Jim Fitzpatrick outlines the position of Theresa
Villiers in relation to the Tory cuts in the six counties as a position where
the Tories are unable 'to give the North more money for welfare than it is
due'.
Fitzpatrick's article continues with his very accepting
outline of the British State's unwillingness to provide even basic standards of
social care by stating that needed funding 'would be unfair to other parts of
the UK implementing the cuts, and is a point of principle, a message she
(Villiers) was keen to take to the States.'
The British state has no qualms in treating the six counties
as a sidekick to their 'united' kingdom when it suits.
It suited when it, in a shameless move excluded the
investigation of sexual abuse of children in the north of Ireland from the UK
governments national enquiry into child abuse in residential settings.
It didn't have any embarrassment using heavily armed members
of the British military to raid homes in Lurgan and Derry last week, not
something any citizen in Britain can expect to be subjected to.
British Secretary of State Theresa May, speaking at a
meeting in Brixton, London in late July stated 'our police have never and will
never routinely carry guns or hide behind military style equipment'. May
explained her denial of requests from London authorities to be able to use
water cannons in the future by saying 'I am acutely conscious of the potential
impact water cannon can have on perceptions of police legitimacy and the very
principle of policing by consent'.
Interesting that water cannon and plastic bullets can be
used at will by the paramilitary RUC/PSNI in the six counties.
Internal exiles, release from internment on the precondition
of political silence and criminal charges for quoting a revered historical
political figure are all hallmarks of Britain's sordid little statelet in
Ireland today.
Principle never was and never will be relevant to Britain's
interference in Ireland.
Nothing suprising there then!
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