tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post3868207179167886929..comments2024-03-28T13:35:30.500+00:00Comments on TPQ: Brexit Exposes The Good Friday Agreement As A Purely Internal Arrangement AMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-30956059380403076832018-02-06T04:28:43.054+00:002018-02-06T04:28:43.054+00:00This outsider is impressed by the above comments. ...This outsider is impressed by the above comments. May you all have some input into coming political arrangements. <br /><br />May I suggest that it isn't only the bribed and subverted few who are to blame.<br />Driving back to Dublin airport on May 23, 1998 the day after the GFA referendum, a Dublin radio show featured a republican vs. a unionist. Sad to say, the unionist grasped the reality chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04986008755374901260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-12567190663394266292017-02-08T12:14:39.743+00:002017-02-08T12:14:39.743+00:00Steve R
I think the DUP and their farmer / UDR/RU...Steve R<br /><br />I think the DUP and their farmer / UDR/RUC/Screw mates/voters want the good old days back. Much as it pains me to say it SF laughing at them was actually the PERFECT response. Naturally the PUP boys and girls would be doing the jail time if the DUP had its way. Hope there's a thaw in the siege 'mental condition' up-down-OVER there (I'm further North than just larry hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09837849309156970989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-23805777100993673662017-02-07T22:40:07.762+00:002017-02-07T22:40:07.762+00:00Larry,
I can't stand the DUP either, and don&...Larry,<br /><br />I can't stand the DUP either, and don't know many who can (except my Free P mates who always were a bit barmy). I do hear they are leading the most bigoted campaign ever, according to the PUP, who i'd much rather have a larger say on behalf of working class unionist areas anyway.<br /><br />Interesting times ahead.Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-39137435894198028252017-02-07T15:40:05.061+00:002017-02-07T15:40:05.061+00:00okokAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06358573637344821656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-7535387843369475752017-02-06T23:07:10.459+00:002017-02-06T23:07:10.459+00:00Steve R
It seems obvious on the first day of camp...Steve R<br /><br />It seems obvious on the first day of campaigning proper that everyone bar the DUP are open to accommodation and co-existing in the North. The 'bake' on Foster and the attitude could start a civil war in an empty telephone box. I have grown up kids and a grandchild there now and that spectacle today was nothing short if deliberate evil. Toxic by design. I think this willlarry hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09837849309156970989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-89463629407849794692017-02-06T20:54:40.974+00:002017-02-06T20:54:40.974+00:00Larry,
Spot on, but I wonder if tribal politics w...Larry,<br /><br />Spot on, but I wonder if tribal politics will still hold sway. <br /><br />Not sure many unionists see 'a fenian threat' anymore, from what I'm told they are mixing more freely now but who knows? Peter might be in a better place to judge in being there.<br /><br />But I'm with you, vote the DUP out tae feck!!! Bunch of hypocritical holier than thou twunts, Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-9237793361053811482017-02-06T17:30:28.260+00:002017-02-06T17:30:28.260+00:00Interesting point. Niall. Reminds me of a campaign...Interesting point. Niall. Reminds me of a campaign in England a few years back called 'None Of The Above' They wanted that term, 'none of the above', to appear as an additional option on the ballot.Sean Bresnahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06842180620284317746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-11770633533437738402017-02-06T17:02:19.034+00:002017-02-06T17:02:19.034+00:00Sooner Stormont hoods fest is wrapped up the bette...Sooner Stormont hoods fest is wrapped up the better. Criminals thinking insulting people will get them re elected to rob the public purse again. FOUR YEARS WORTH. Wrap it up, sooner the better.larry hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09837849309156970989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-88773611265766086932017-02-06T10:56:26.068+00:002017-02-06T10:56:26.068+00:00Besides all the boxes to tick on the ballot paper ...Besides all the boxes to tick on the ballot paper for all the political parties taking part in this highly important 'global' election - Stormont Assembly - what if there was other options at the bottom of the ballot paper for Direct Rule and Joint Rule.....now that would be interesting!Niallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06013400649117430986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-90023788530484995132017-02-05T23:35:35.837+00:002017-02-05T23:35:35.837+00:00Steve R
I think taking into consideration the DUP...Steve R<br /><br />I think taking into consideration the DUP determination that they lone would hold finance posts and after the resultant criminality as a 'policy' on their part and the SF weakness in face of it, time for major change is here. No one in their right mind wants a return to conflict. But the con job of the DUP fleecing the UK tax payer in the name of loyalty needs to be larry hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09837849309156970989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-51142307436848832552017-02-05T22:09:21.892+00:002017-02-05T22:09:21.892+00:00An internal settlement voted for the majority in t...An internal settlement voted for the majority in the wee 6 (NOT majority of prods by the way) to end 30 years of deathsquads, massacres and bombs. What alternative was there then?<br /><br />What alternative is there now? Surely the politicians are crooks but that's the same the world over, nothing new in the wee 6 either!<br /><br />I doubt if a UI came to fruition much would be different!<Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-31660372443862449642017-02-05T17:49:59.289+00:002017-02-05T17:49:59.289+00:00I want to say I absolutely agree there with Sean, ...I want to say I absolutely agree there with Sean, especially on that last comment about those who warned us that the Belfast Agreement was essentially an internal settlement, how right people like Bernadette Sands and Francie Mackey were. I'm only 21 myself, but looking through that period with the benefit of hindsight, many of the very things that would have shinners in the 90's howling Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06358573637344821656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-19863066895700541852017-02-05T16:50:01.538+00:002017-02-05T16:50:01.538+00:00Sean Bres
The hard nosed and cute bastard heads i...Sean Bres<br /><br />The hard nosed and cute bastard heads in the middle management of the Provos have to shoulder much of the blame. Decommissioning in particular getting agreed to was insanity. There is no way those who permitted that can claim to have been blind-sided or misled. They knew what they were doing collectively and were using and wasting people right up til the end n 94-96. These larry hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09837849309156970989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-27782442524316156062017-02-05T12:02:41.402+00:002017-02-05T12:02:41.402+00:00There is an idea we can blame it all on Adams and ...There is an idea we can blame it all on Adams and McGuinness and our sins can be washed away but when we think back and remember that many warned of what was happening - of what and where it would lead - yourself among those who did so but also the likes of Francie Mackey and Bernadette Sands, Tommy McKearney and Brendan Hughes - then the truth is the responsibility for this fiasco is spread far Sean Bresnahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06842180620284317746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-49106146659732529082017-02-05T12:02:27.089+00:002017-02-05T12:02:27.089+00:00No problem Tony. 'How internal is internal'...No problem Tony. 'How internal is internal' eh - that's a gas. It should have been obvious from the get-go that this could only ever be an internal arrangement - and in my opinion it was obvious. If I could see the situation for what it was at 17-18 then those with years on me should really have been able to do likewise.<br /><br />I've told this story on here before but we were Sean Bresnahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06842180620284317746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-47583534504336326952017-02-04T23:49:02.581+00:002017-02-04T23:49:02.581+00:00'In the absence of any transparency in the sel...'In the absence of any transparency in the selection of a leader, speculation fills the vacuum. Is the chosen one anointed by the same personnel who peopled the army council of the IRA, as some suggest'?<br /><br />Same way all those IRA Conventions were held to change policy I expect. In Gerry or Martins bedroom. larry hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09837849309156970989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-92208485280944290352017-02-04T23:34:25.883+00:002017-02-04T23:34:25.883+00:00The GFA is worthless. The DUP basically ignored it...The GFA is worthless. The DUP basically ignored it and SF desperate to be seen to have attained political leverage / power played the pinball wizard 'deaf dumb and blind kid' to all the DUP financial scams and criminality. Now we know why the DUP were adamant that SF would never get the position of Finance Minister. They had plans for the public purse. Only when the scandals were piling larry hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09837849309156970989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-71307452278596327472017-02-04T21:35:50.697+00:002017-02-04T21:35:50.697+00:00What an article!What an article!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04166605274886767312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-63261040078730089922017-02-04T21:27:35.157+00:002017-02-04T21:27:35.157+00:00Sean,
The invoking of Article 50 null and voids th...Sean,<br />The invoking of Article 50 null and voids the GFA.....let's see how they brush that one under the carpet!Niallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06013400649117430986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-77861187580969866252017-02-04T20:27:03.522+00:002017-02-04T20:27:03.522+00:00Mick Clifford was on the money with This assessmen...Mick Clifford was on the money with <a href="https://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/columnists/michael-clifford/michael-clifford-mock-yah-democracy-still-rules-waves-442044.html" rel="nofollow">This assessment of the Michelle O’Neill anointment</a>AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-48072865925009638702017-02-04T20:21:41.273+00:002017-02-04T20:21:41.273+00:00Sean,
thanks for throwing this the way of the Qui...Sean,<br /><br />thanks for throwing this the way of the Quill. It gets it in one about the internal solution. Ruairi told me that he had heard that they were sitting discussing how internal is internal before moving to con us all. AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.com