A Tangled Web

Always the Shilling, Never the Crown

 

Stephen Glover has a fantastic article in this week's Spectator centred on the repulsive hypocrisy of the Andersonstown News Group in West Belfast.  A media group dedicated to the severing of the Union, and the support of a party adept at using violent means to bring about such an eventuality, is seeking £3 million from the Northern Ireland Office to help with the launch of another IRA-cheerleading rag.



In all the time I spent in Northern Ireland it never ceased to astonish me just how eager Irish nationalists were to suck every conceivable penny out of the same British State they all professed to loathe so much.   If funds were available from, say, the National Lottery or central government, nationalist representatives were there like blowflies on a stool - with their greedy, grabbing digits ready to denude any monetary resources they could.  This of course never prevented them from defiling the United Kingdom, or the character of people in Northern Ireland who professed loyalty to that same polity.



Glover correctly points out the fact that governments do not fund newsprint in Western democracies.   Still, I don't suppose the trifling issues of rank hypocrisy and attempts at ignominious begging will deflect execrable characters like Mairtin O'Muilleoir and Peter Quinn from their goal of fleecing the NIO.