In het Goede Vrijdag-Akkoord (of Akkoord van Belfast), dat een eind maakte aan grootschalige terreur in Noord-Ierland, werd gesteld dat de Britse overheid ten allen tijde onpartijdig zou moeten handelen, als het gaat om bemoeienis met dit in feite illegaal bezette deel van Noord -Ierland.
Onbegrijpelijk dat de ijskoude, inhumane neoliberale regering May nu een verbond aangaat met de protestante DUP, in feite een terreurorganisatie met een politieke tak (waar NB de psychopathische haatzaaier Paisey deel van uitmaakte..)….
The Canary bracht vorige week dinsdag het volgende artikel over deze zaak en gaat m.n. in op een pamflet geschreven door een partijgenoot van May en minister in haar kabinet, Michael Gove. In dit pamflet heeft Gove grote kritiek op het Goede Vrijdag-Akkoord, dat hij als een capitulatie voor de IRA ziet…..
Theresa May was hoping nobody would see this Northern Ireland document written by her cabinet minister
The deal
Michael Gove
The Belfast Agreement has, at its heart, however, an even greater wickedness… It is a humiliation of
our Army, Police and Parliament. But, worse still, it is a denial of our national integrity, in every sense of the word. Surely, is the Belfast Agreement not the greatest achievement of this Government, but an indelible mark against it?”
In 2016, journalist and Assistant Editor of The Irish Times Fintan O’Toole summarised Gove’s argument. Gove, he said:
“utterly despises the 1998 peace deal… Gove characterised the entire peace process as nothing more than a capitulation to the IRA. He insisted that the cause of the Troubles was British lack of firmness in facing down demands for a united Ireland… This is idiocy but, like Gove’s Brexit theorems, dangerous idiocy”
Underlying this attack is a sense that it would be better to destroy the peace deal, at whatever cost to the people of Northern Ireland, than to allow this monstrosity to undermine a conservative vision of Britishness”.
Terrorism
Gove defended his pamphlet as recently as 2016 when he said on the BBC Andrew Marr Show:
“One of things I would say now, we now have peace in Northern Ireland, I’m delighted that we do, but the things we did during the negotiations in the way that we handled the IRA, I would not have done… There is a moral question about someone who had been engaged in terrorism should be in office and I found that very difficult to take”
But as many have pointed out, the DUP has its own links to terrorism.
The ruling class
And, according to O’Toole, this partiality goes right to the top:
“Gove’s paper epitomises a much deeper set of attitudes to Northern Ireland among what is now the controlling faction of the British ruling class… [May’s] antipathy is quieter and less explicit, but she is essentially Govian. We know this because her signature political issue has been the scrapping of the UK’s Human Rights Act… And this is a straightforward intention to impugn the Belfast Agreement”.
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Opvallend trouwens dat de DUP na de Brexit, de grenzen met aartsvijand Ierland open wil houden.
