Keith
There are those who claim Scotland to be a seperate counrties - you were claiming your nonsense for the Southern Counties of England.
No - I can't see why at all and I am not with you.
I stated that peace will not come about while six counties remain in foreign hands - that remains my position (is it yours?)
Terribus
"Beresford Ellis"
My apologies - I meant Ricard Bennett
See below - from a fairly impeccible source
Jim Carroll
Although they were only a small proportion of British forces in Ireland, they were the toughest, the wildest, and the most feared. They knew noth¬ing and they cared nothing about Ireland. They were sent there in March of 1920 by Llovd George's Coalition Cabinet to make it "a hell for rebels to live in." They could arrest and imprison anyone at any time. They murdered civilians. They wore a strange mixture of dark green tunics, khaki trousers, black belts, and odd headgear, including civilian felt hats. The Irish named them after a famous pack of wild dogs in Co. Limerick—The Black and Tans.
The Black and Tans murdered innocent people, burned and looted all over the south and west of Ireland. By July of 1921 they had accom¬plished their mission so spectacularly well that they united not only Irish but British public opinion against the government; undermined Lloyd George's Coalition; and dealt the Liberal Party a blow from which it was never to recover. Richard Bennett's book is an accurate account of an ugly and harrowing period in Anglo-Irish history—a period that the English have struggled to forget and the Irish cannot help but remember.

Richard Bennett was a Lt.-Col. in the Army Bureau of Current Affairs at the War Office. He was editor of Lilliput for four years, edited the Bedside Lilliput, and has written two novels.