Beware Irish border polls: why wake a sleeping genocidal maniac?
<p>There’s an ironic symmetry between the ‘sure it will be fine’ attitude seen on Irish panel shows discussing a united Ireland, with naive Brexiteers before <strong><em>that</em></strong> referendum. The banality and matter of fact calls to rip down <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Chesterton%27s_fence#%22History_is_full_of_examples...%22" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Chesterton’s Fence</a> , let’s <strong><em>just</em></strong> remove the six counties from the body politic of the UK for the first time in 200 years, sure it will be fine! Belfast ruled from Dublin rather than London for the first time since the formation of Italy ! Antrim not sending an MP to Westminster for the first time since before Jefferson was president of the USA!</p>
<p>I’m a ‘child of the troubles’, born during the Ulster Workers Strike in the mid 70s, my dad had to dodge paramilitary checkpoints to come to see my mum in the Ulster Hospital. He couldn’t get her any flowers as the only florist he knew had been burned out — So the story goes anyway. I’m as guilty as him at gilding those lilies and the reality is I had a privileged middle-class upbringing, in some of the loveliest places on God’s earth.</p>
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