Reading through what I wrote last night, I am somwhat reminded of something James Connolly once said or wrote. Something to the effect, that you can say - well you can't blame the people of England for Ireland's problems, I'm afraid that I do.

For after all, why did we get rid of Thatcher? Was it because her intransigence over Ireland that was getting people killed on the streets? No it was because she couldn't run a piss up in a brewery when it came to economics. One generation of kids had grown up without a job - bringing with it all kinds of social ills, for apparently no good reason. And if we had left it to her, things would have doutless continued that way.

Really it was only when people were getting killed that it was in the consciousness of the English people. And yet who would want that back. (rhetorical question)