Killers go free, brave soldiers face trial: proof the IRA won

WHY do you think police are now investigating the long-ago acts of British soldiers in Northern Ireland, while Patrick Magee, the multiple murderer who tried to do away with the British Cabinet in Brighton (killing five innocent persons and injuring another 31) is a free man? And why do you think our Government cannot stop this? I will tell you. It is because we surrendered to the IRA in 1998. The defeated must do as they are told.

If, like me, you opposed this at the time, you are entitled to complain. If you were gulled by talk of ‘peace’, when you must have known a price would be paid, then you cannot. You shrugged and let it go. And there’s more to come.

Quite soon now, a large chunk of our national territory will pass under the rule of a foreign power, as a result of a violent attack on this country.

This sort of thing is not actually supposed to happen nowadays in civilised Western Europe, but we get round it by pretending it is not happening.

You may have guessed that the place involved is Northern Ireland. Thanks to the Instrument of Surrender signed by the Blair Government in 1998 at Belfast, a referendum is all it will take to place this area under the control of the Irish Republic. A recent survey by Lucid Talk for the BBC showed 45 per cent would vote to stay British, and 42.1 per cent would vote to leave the UK. In my view, it is a matter of time before there is a majority to leave.

You may say that the transfer will therefore be democratic. But no such vote would ever have been considered if Britain had not given in to the IRA in 1998.

Look at what happened in this supposed festival of peace and love. Hundreds of IRA prisoners were freed. So were scores of equally disgusting gangsters from the ‘Loyalist’ side, so as to look evenhanded. An amnesty, in all but name, was given to any who had yet to be caught and convicted.

The only people who didn’t benefit from this were those who prefer peaceful, lawful methods.

Thousands of British troops withdrew. Hugely expensive surveillance equipment in sensitive areas was dismantled and taken away for ever. The police Special Branch, a formidable weapon against the terrorists, was disbanded. IRA mouthpieces were allowed into mainstream politics on fat taxfunded salaries, and invited to Royal banquets. Sinn Fein, the IRA megaphone, was even allowed to raise funds abroad – so far more than £10million from US businessmen and Hollywood poseurs. The Crown of St Edward, symbol of authority in our Kingdom, was stripped from police badges, while flying of the Union Flag was severely limited by law.

Meanwhile, it was pretended that the IRA had disarmed, but no visible, checkable proof of this was ever produced.

IRA bombings, including the worst single massacre of the whole Troubles, at Omagh, continued. These extended to the British mainland – including one in Ealing and another outside the then BBC TV Centre in 2001. But these were all conveniently accepted as being the work of so-called ‘dissidents’.

AND here is a puzzle. Irish Republicanism is notorious for the viciousness of its internal conflicts. In the past its factions have gone to war with each other, or hanged each other, because they disagreed over the 1921 peace treaty with Britain. But I can find no trace of any attempt by the Provisional IRA to destroy the alleged ‘Real IRA’ (they must know who they are), which suggests to me that it is simply a cover used for deniable operations, when the British Government is being slow to make concessions.

And that might give you a clue as to why a 76-year-old former paratrooper is under police investigation for crimes allegedly committed in Londonderry in 1972, while all manner of IRA and UVF killers from the same era haven’t a care in the world, and probably live off money you pay in tax.

I WILL mention here, once again, the virtues of the Norway Option as a clean, easy route out of the EU. We don’t need France’s permission to take it. We can just decide to follow it, take it down off the shelf, and plug it in. As the deadline approaches, I suspect many more people may notice this. Do not be dismayed. Norway (I’ve been to look) is definitely outside the EU and does very well.