Surely you mean the Northern Irish peace process?
The Irish Peace Process and the Working Class
Ok, Nothern Ireland process or whatever you choose to call it. For me I dont really want to argue over cheap 'semantics' with you including the 'civil war' jibe. Particular when you weigh up the vast evidence which suggests that the British Government were more than just 'piggy in the middle' of neutral brokers between 'two tribes'.
Bobby wrote:
Ok, Nothern Ireland process or whatever you choose to call it. For me I dont really want to argue over cheap 'semantics' with you including the 'civil war' jibe. Particular when you weigh up the vast evidence which suggests that the British Government were more than just 'piggy in the middle' of neutral brokers between 'two tribes'.
What are you on about? You don't even understand the Civil War "jibe".
Yeah, thought the article was more carlinesque.
Bobby, to spell it out revol68's Civil War jibe, note the capitals, is a reference to the Irish Civil War that followed the signing of the treaty, y'know the June 1922 to May 1923 Civil War. Hence his point being related to the Irish Peace process, y'know with the conflict being mostly contained to the wee north and not carried out across the whole of Ireland. Nobody has suggested that the British government were simply piggy in the middle.
So the article from the dots at the end of the little taster posted by Bobby actually goes on to read:
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The progress of the Irish Peace process has been both a long and turbulent one. It had seen the development in recent times of the once unimaginable, with Ian Paisley the leader of the DUP and Sinn Fein's Martin McGuiness sharing Power within the local administration. Since then, Paisley has stood down and Peter Robinson has taken over such leadership roles. No doubt in the years ahead many will attempt to pull the threads together of how such in it’s entirety had been moved to happen. Yet with now seeing such an administration up and running, has it delivered beneficial change for working class communities, and more importantly what change, if any, has there been for working class communities since the ending of the ‘war’. Obviously these have been many and forthcoming, the real mastermind of the Irish Peace process having bestowed upon the working class of the north this wonderous peace, keeping all along and throughtout the process the northern PIRA in tow and bestowing upon us also a free concert in the grounds of at the neo-colonial neo-liberal quango local administration at Stormont.
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The progress of the Irish Peace process has been both a long and turbulent one. It had seen the development in recent times of the once unimaginable, with Ian Paisley the leader of the DUP and Sinn Fein's Martin McGuiness sharing Power within the local administration. Since then, Paisley has stood down and Peter Robinson has taken over such leadership roles. No doubt in the years ahead many will attempt to pull the threads together of how such in it’s entirety had been moved to happen. Yet with now seeing such an administration up and running, has it delivered beneficial change for working class communities, and more importantly what change, if any, has there been for working class communities since the ending of the ‘war’........
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