I understand that Lord Palmerston declared that nations have no permanent
friends or allies but they do have permanent interests.
 
I suspect that States can buy the friendship of citizens of other nations, citizens
who put their own selfish interests, above the good of their own compatriots.
 
After 60 years in England I reckon I have more non-Irish friends than Irish ones,
I am convinced that the United Kingdom’s permanent interests make it the
eternal enemy of the Irish people.
 
On 11th November 1920, two years after the Armistice brought an end to the
war waged by the United Kingdom on the pretext of defending the freedom
of small nations, its House of Commons passed the Third Reading of Government
of Ireland Bill, and the IRELAND ACT became law.
 
Within weeks of the Armistice, Irish voters had established by popular vote
in an election, pronounced by THE TIMES (of London) regarded on all sides
as a plebiscite, a Government of Ireland – all of Ireland.
 
Whilst Irish Unionists and a few Nationalists continued to sit at Westminster
not even one of them voted for the 1920 Act which partitioned Ireland.
 
Britain imposed partition on Ireland. Her leaders, through trickery and threats
made some Republicans accept an offer they couldn’t refuse resulting in
an Irish “Civil War” and a “Boundary” Commission whose failure was pre-ordained
by the scoundrels who used it as a decoy.
 
The cold, calculated cynicism of Sir Norman Brook’s Memo, noted by Attlee in 1949,
echoed some of Churchill’s messages to his colleagues in the 1922 Civil War.
 
The Good Friday Agreement, where the decision whether a Border Poll be held
lies with a British Minister, and the promise by Keir Starmer that he will campaign
for the continuation of Britis Rule in Ireland demonstrate that the UNITED KINGDOM
remains the permanent enemy of the Irish people.
 
Certainly most British people are not anti-Irish. They are poorly informed by their
teachers and media, as are most Irish people.