‘A Deal To Be Done?’ Dis-Truss Her!
Brexit: there’s ‘a deal to be done’ over Northern Ireland, says Liz Truss | Northern Ireland | The Guardian
Once more, one feels obliged to revise what Kipling wrote 110 years ago…
‘Before an empire’s eyes, the traitor names his price…‘
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And the evident satisfaction of Eire’s Coveney…
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…infamous for his arrogance…
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“.there can be no British-only direct rule. That is the Irish government’s position.”
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…as anti-British as Dirty Dev…
…. if it had not been for the loyalty and friendship of Northern Ireland we should have been forced to come to close quarters with Mr. de Valera or perish forever from the earth.
However, with a restraint and poise to which, I say, history will find few parallels, we never laid a violent hand upon them…
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….which at times would have been quite easy and quite natural, and left the de Valera Government to frolic with the German and later with the Japanese representatives to their heart’s content.
Winston Churchill
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