PSF willing to look at alternatives to united Ireland
Posted by Jim on July 28, 2016
Sean Bres
THE ENDGAME IN SIGHT FOR BRITAIN AND HER HIRELINGS IN IRELAND…
Where the latest line from Adams is headed is not an Éire Nua-style arrangement for Ireland (as some are imagining) but to somewhere else entire – to an ‘Agreed Ireland’ that accounts for the clause in the British-Irish Agreement that London ‘will remain the guarantor of the unionist community regardless of the constitutional status of Northern Ireland’.
Sinn Fein then seek not a sovereign and independent all-Ireland republic – whether unitary, federal or otherwise – but a renegotiation of Good Friday that allows for the above proviso within any new constitutional set-up to follow a ‘Yes Vote’ in a border poll.
This is what Adams means when he talks of ‘alternatives to a United Ireland’.
Republicanism asserts that the Irish people should freely agree the terms and conditions of their own governance upon a full British withdrawal from our country.
Constitutional nationalism, as embodied by New Sinn Fein and the Free State establishment, asserts otherwise however, holding that the contracting parties to Good Friday should negotiate and agree any new Ireland that might emerge.
The Ireland this process imagines will continue to include Britain.
This is the endgame coming into sight: an ‘Agreed Ireland’ where the British get to stay and the Irish agree to it – ‘the last wet dream of British imperialism’, as so aptly described of late by John Crawley at Drumfurrer, where Ireland is settled as a permanent British redoubt.
For what died the sons of Roisin?