A Tangled Web

It's the Same Old Song

 

It was a hit for the Four Tops in 1965.  Does anyone remember the line: 'It's the same, same old song.  But with a different meaning since you've been gone...' ?  Well, with this latest enunciation from the terrorists extraordinaire, it is a case of the same old song with the same old meaning.  Gerry Adams is asking HM Government to 'make a new strategic alliance with Irish nationalism and republicanism.'  Put in layman's terms he is asking the sovereign government to turn its back on the clear majority of Northern Ireland's population who remain loyal to the Union, and join the ranks of the persuaders: an alliance which would consist of the evil, the nefarious and the weak; to gradually push Ulster out of the United Kingdom.

 

I get a sense of deja vu.  Ten years ago, when the IRA was murdering people in the full gaze of the world's media (as opposed to now when they perform their culling behind closed doors, and with sobriquets), Adams was making the same demands.  It is pathetic to think that, after thirty years of slaughter, fallacious demographic predictions, and constant attacks on Unionist culture, the bloodthirsty forces of Irish republicanism have to resurrect a previously mooted idea to browbeat the greater number to accept their constitutional aspirations.