A Tangled Web

The Sneers of a Clown



Judging by the waffle Danny Morrison writes on his website, it would appear he was far more proficient at interrogating suspects for his Provo brethren than ever he is at accurate analysis. His inspiration for his latest tirade in none other than George Galloway MP, the moustachioed traitor who believed it was perfectly acceptable to call for Arab terrorists to rise up against British soldiers in Iraq. Most Glaswegians would consider Galloway to be a perfidious, if eccentric, fool, and his own constituents will be glad to see the back of him come the next election. That fact that Morrison chooses Galloway as the central figure in his argument speaks volumes about the pathetic degree Irish republicans now have to resort to in order to curry sympathy.



Galloway recently appeared at a nationalist gang-bang (alternatively known as the Feile an Phobail) in West Belfast. There, he castigated the broad Unionist population in typical 'Lefty' style, arguing that the people of England, Scotland and Wales should be given a say on whether or not Ulster remains in the Union. Quite apart from the incalculable constitutional and political ramifications of this oft-mooted idea, the unprecedented nature of territorial exclusion at the behest of those not inhabiting the territory in question, and the fact that no referendum (including that in the Belfast Agreement) is binding under British constitutional law, I have to ask Morrison and Co. why they continue to resurrect this argument?



IRA genocide failed to break the Union during the course of its thirty-year putsch; demographic predictions of nationalist victory are considered so far-fetched they are discounted as a means of obtaining 'Irish unity'. Are republicans now so desperate that they have to resort to asking the rest of the British people to do their dirty work for them? I won't dwell, even cursorily, on Morrison's efforts to confer legitimacy on the IRA campaign, but I will study his more ludicrous contentions in some detail.



Firstly, we have the inescapable reality that no such referendum has been, or is likely to be, commissioned (and even if it was, the outcome is far from certain). Secondly, we have Morrison's three reasons why the 'British' people should dump the Union. He talks of we 'Britons' keenly awaiting the expulsion of Northern Ireland on the basis of 'Unionist obstruction to political progress' (it is the refusal of illegal terrorist groups to decommission and disband which has stymied progress to date); 'the economic millstone the Union represents' (every country subsidises its 'poorer' regions from a central exchequer. Does that mean that territorial fragmentation should occur on the basis of economic considerations? Where does that sit with Sinn Fein's 'Marxist' principles? Also, the Union no more represents a millstone around our wallets than the Irish Republic's membership of the EU did for thirty years, whilst it systematically sponged off European funds. Should we have voted to exclude Ireland for the same reason, Danny boy?) and 'righting an historical injustice' (partition was entirely justified on the grounds of deep-rooted historical and political divisions which had existed on the island of Ireland for centuries; and its occurrence had everything to do with the lust for independence amongst republicans).

Morrison is nothing more than an ex-terrorist with a big mouth. However, I suggest he engrosses himself in texts about British constitutional practice before publishing such woeful drivel on the Internet in future.