I'm getting worried about all this rear entry... But that's beside the point.

You may be right about new people starting invidious political threads but does that make them wrong Ted? Let me put the record strait on my count. I am neither a new member or one who starts politcal threads to cause discontent or envy! I have started many musical threads and even hosted a couple of Mudcat gatherings in Manchester. I do however respond quite often on topics I feel strongly about.

I was brought up Russian Orthodox but schooled in a Catholic school in Salford. My mother is officialy C of E but leans more to the Methodist faith, where she re-married recently. She has a love for Irish Rebel songs, even though her father was in the Black and Tans. My father is Polish, his father a Russian orthodox priest. He 'converted' us to Catholocism when I was very young. I am now of my very own strong but as yet nameless faith. (Jedi was already taken:-) )

I know a fair bit about injustice from a personal viewpoint and it struck me instantly that there was a distinct injustice in the Norn Iron 'peace process'. Just the same as I always felt it was unjust when the newspapers said that train drivers had brought the country to a standstill by striking rather than the government had brought it to a standstill by not paying a fair wage. Like the TV reporting that the miners were causing trouble and rioting rather than the fact that Thatcher was stiring up the trouble to take away the power the miners had.

Yes, I agree that this and other threads may have been started to agitate political comment and action but isn't that what folk music often does? If that is 'taking the piss' then I stand, as accused, with sample bottle in hand for all to see. But if that is the sum total of your argument against the thread then I think I will stick with this bandwagon rather than jump on yours. Hope you understand.

Cheers

Dave