The politics of
Northern
Ireland have entered a crisis. For the first
time ever, the winner of the Northern Ireland Assembly elections were Sinn Féin.
The central republican party won a landslide victory. This means that the
Northern Ireland Executive, being two leaders, one nationalist and one unionist
with equal powers, must include the Sinn Féin candidate, the glamorous young party
vice president Michelle O'Neill, as First Minister. She has already served as Deputy
First Minister. However, the DUP have stated that they will refuse to nominate
a Deputy First Minister because of concerns over the post-Brexit trade
agreement (I consider this a phoney war, see background link below). There is
going to be a meeting at Stormont on Friday to try and resolve the issue. The Sinn
Féin story is a very familiar one and it mirrors almost perfectly that of Plaid
Cymru and the SNP. It was founded in 1905 as an Irish nationalist party,
seeking independence from the
United Kingdom,
an issue that had dominated Irish society and politics for over seven hundred
years. This was achieved in 1921, yet a century later that same organization was
singing a very different tune. During the establishment of the EEC Sinn Féin
opposed European integration, but today describes itself as "critical, but
supportive, of the EU" and does not advocate withdrawal from the European Union.
After seven hundred years of struggle for freedom from
Britain,
they are now handing themselves over to another empire willingly on a plate,
after barely a century of sovereignty. The irony is indescribable. I wish I
could say it was unique, but I see the same mentality in the other so-called
"Celtic" countries. They are disarmed by the delusion that it is
physically impossible for their countries to have any other foreign enemy than
England.
So what we have now is both Irish governments in
Dublin
and
Belfast ruled by pro-Brussels
globalists. Sinn Féin's principle goal is for a united
Ireland
and they have a plan for a referendum on the subject within five years. What
was once a pipe dream is suddenly staring
Ireland
in the face. Source:
https://www.ft.com/content/53592270-98aa-4030-812a-dc019461b8d7.
Public opinion in the province has shifted; previously being overwhelmingly
unionist, but now only half of the population are favour being in the
UK.
A significant minority, 37%, want unity with the Irish republic. I'm not sure
what has caused this recent seismic shift; maybe Brexit and Covid, the usual
suspects. Whatever it is, a united
Ireland
in today's geopolitical climate would be a catastrophe. A large chunk of Brexit
Britain would
be broken off and absorbed into the EU. This will probably be called the
"Ulster Strategy" and the globalists will then apply it to
Wales
and
Scotland;
in fact we already see the first signs of that now. Pretty soon a fragmented
UK
would no longer be able to resist the
Brussels
onslaught. I implore the Irish people not to be bamboozled by melodramatic sentiments
about "freedom". It is a fake freedom!
See here for
background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2019/10/brexit-portal.html.
