Thanks stigweard.

There still remains a number of things that need addressed and are being ignored. This week we saw a number of primed bombs discovered in a loyalist area. The police said they belonged to a Loyalist paramilitary group.

The first minister is yet to put pressure on loyalist paramilitary groups to disarm. Unionists just put the boot into republicans. I think it is safe to say Sinn Fein are now out of the equation as republicans. No one can believe how they were so manipulated over the past few years.

Divide and conquer is what I call it. British Sinn Fein are being pressed at every corner and folding to every demand of unionism. Yes people are moving on, but to see Sinn Fein slap the backs of their buddies on the policing board is hard to watch. Policing is still an issue. The Special Branch and Special Powers act are still in place and the memory of their deeds towards the nationalist community are still fresh in the minds of many in this community.

The world is changing, Korea and China are becoming world powers and Europe will at some point have to stand as one to compete. When this happens borders will fall. If people believe British Sinn Fein will ever fight to achieve unity of the island, they are misguided.

At the Anglo- Irish meetings in Dublin and Belfast it is no longer Westminster that speaks on behalf of British interests in Ireland, it´s British Sinn Fein. Well after all they pay their wages and they sit in a British Assembly.

British Sinn Fein are now being taken to task at community level by a new group called Eirigi. This group is democratic and although small in number I feel they are the only voice of Republicanism in Ireland today.

To be honest, many have been sickened by the approach taken by British Sinn Fein and simply don´t care anymore. Just for a moment imagine the Labour Party in Britain turned it´s back on every principal it once stood for and implemented the policies of the BNP. That is what it amounts to.