A Tangled Web

Circles in the Sand



I vaguely recollect a song released in the 80's called 'Circles in the Sand'. I cannot, for the life of me, name the artist who sang it. Nevertheless, the lyrics tend to mirror the machinations of the failed Northern Ireland 'peace process'. Yesterday, Tony 'My Lips Never Lie' Blair, accompanied by the Taoiseach of the one State which simply cannot mind its own business (Bertie Ahern), drew another line in the sand by setting an autumn deadline for progress in negotiations.



How often have we heard it before? Endless 'deadlines' which turned out to be as permeable as a biological membrane during an osmotic process. Tony is fixated with securing his place in history as the man who brought stability to Northern Ireland. I don't suppose it has dawned on him that the best way to secure stability is to create a democracy untainted by the forces of terror. For so long as HM Government indulges terrorist proxies and grants them concessions to which they are not entitled, then for so long will our Prime Minister be perceived as scarcely more than a lap-dog to Irish republican philosophies.