"They did not need to scupper them.
They were never going to be accepted"
Then why did the mindless twats put them forward?
"There is sectarian hate in your posts though Jim."
Not from me Keith
As an atheist I am a neural on all religions - they are all irrational superstition to me, but those who ish to follow them are free to do so as long as they don't interfere with the running of our society.
I detest all forms of sectariianism, whether it be between different brand of religions, colour, culture, race... humanity is humanity
Just a reminder of where sectarianism arose in Ireland
The Unionists were the first to introduce the gun into 20th century politics here - they did so on the basis of "fuck the Pope - Home Rule is Rome Rule - sectarianism
They sighned a covenant which declared the intention to go to war if ever home rule was introduced.
Britain deliberately created a sectarian state - at first intending to include the whole of Ulster, but whan they di teh math they cut out the three counties that would put the Catholics in charge.
They oversaw the creation of a fiercely divided state with bigots in charge - Catholics were deliberately disadvantaged by land divisions, a vote dependent on land ownership, regular anti-Catholic riots and employment boycots and annual triumphalist displays of superiority.
Members of my family, two parents, to young girls andboy toddler, were forced to flee Protestant Derry when their home was burned around their ears.
When the Catholics had had enough and began to protest, their peaceful marches were steered by the RUC through screaming mobs of stone-throwing bigoted thugs
Even then, the first bloodletting of 'The Troubles' was carried out by thuggish Loyalist killers in McGurk's Bar.
During the inevitable violence that erupted from all this, the British Troops sent in to supposedly keep the two factions apart sided and even colluded with the Loyalist terrorists.
The occupying army carried out atrocities of their own, including a massacre of innocent non-combatant demonstrators, imprisonment without trial and now, it transpires, torture.
You hatred of the Irish, describing Irish children as being "brainwashed to hate Britain" is well established on this forum, so don't you dare accuse me of sectarianism.
Given the behaviour of the English/British over eight centuries, it would be understandable if the Irish hated the British
The miracle is that they don't
Jim Carroll