"If the peace process in Northern Ireland is to bear lasting fruit, it’s not just the trust of those loyal to the Crown that needs to be won. It’s an obvious point, but too few people – certainly too few this side of the water – seem prepared to make it." – Brownie @ HP is wise.
If only some of this common sense could be applied to some of the more common topics of discussion on that site …
"If the peace process in Northern Ireland is to bear lasting fruit.." the republicans need to stop murdering, kidnapping, bank robbing, racketeering, intimidating witnesses, and so on, ad nauseum. Brownie@HP is a platitudinous plonker!
Brownie’s rather out of place over there.
It is an obvious point, and the idea that too few people are prepared to make it is plain bollocks. I think pretty much everyone’s aware of it, and it has been sometimes explicit, sometimes implicit in the dealings of every government since Major’s. You call that wise?