jonwilly said:
Gents for years I have said that bribery is the way to go.
Pay them off, far cheaper then keeping 20K troops on the ground (if we had them) and the cost in troops lives and broken bodies makes Bribery the sensible option.
john
Sadly, it's true. Pay them off; cheaper than the lives of our soldiers, and it cheapens the politics of the Irish republicans in Northern Ireland. Look at how vehemently McGuinness defends his position, which includes the enormous salaries he receives - not merely a Westminster MP he; Stormont too. Think of the expenses!
Sad again; the prospect of a happy union with the South is so much further away with scum like him and the rest of his ilk at the top of the pile in Stormont. I watched in near-disbelief at the cretinism of a couple of Stormont MLAs on the telly today (had to turn over just to keep my hair from falling out at the sheer dullness of one of them) and have to shake my head to clear it when I consider the vicious stupidity of the past fifty years.
I'm a Conservative Unionist, but can't help but like the South and the Southerners, and can't help but think that we should join up; whether within the Commonwealth or not, I don't care. There's no good reason for the two countries to be so far apart, so why not get closer? Pitiably, sick shits like McGuinness, the 'real' and 'continuity' republicans et al have prevented it and will do so for far too long.