What odds on "peace and goodwill" in this century?
From my admittedly limited, and only over a couple of days contact with people who had been directly involved eg throwing rocks at soldiers, losing relatives in the troubles, hearing people (from both sides) speak of of living through those times, there's a great deal of efforts made around trying to leave the conflict behind, and wanting to move forwards towards better times with peace and goodwill.
Of course there will be some who still want to fight, and the airing of long held grievances around injustice, and violence done on both sides, you can see it in some of the more recent graffiti there.
But on the whole there seems very little appetite for further bloodshed.
I'm guessing that brexit will hasten the move towards a united Ireland, idk that's just a hunch.
Can that be done 'peacefully' if it happens?
Let's hope so.
But the British Government stepping with a tone deaf bill like this seems to be particularly tone deaf.
You can't have truth and reconciliation without the truth bit being allowed to happen 😕
"The Committee emphasises that the Bill is a unilateral move away from the 2014 Stormont House Agreement in which parties in Northern Ireland, together with the British and Irish governments, decided on mechanisms to better assist these families, and to pursue justice. That agreement was endorsed again by both governments, in the 2015 Fresh Start and the 2020 New Decade, New Approach deals."
