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IRISH POLITICAL REVIEW August 2019 Vol.34, No.8 ISSN 0790-7672 and Northern Star Incorporating Workers' Weekly Vol.33 No.8 ISSN 954-5891 Casement! 1974 Bombings Patricia King Address Paul Hyde, Jack Lane, Manus O'Riordan Labour Comment Tim O'Sullivan pages 3,7,19 page 14 back page IRISH POLITICAL REVIEW August 2019 Vol.34, No.8 ISSN 0790-7672 and Northern Star incorporating Workers' Weekly Vol.33 No.8 ISSN 954-5891 England As It Is The New Commission President British political life is in superficial confusion at the moment. The Parliament three years ago conferred on the electorate, by referendum, the decision about The Irish Times editorialised on the whether the state should remain a member of the European Union and be carried new Commission President, Ursula along by its development, or should withdraw from the European system, reassert its von der Leyen, and her programme th comprehensive independence and revert to the traditional British strategy of fostering on 18 July. Von der Leyen made two divisions within Europe and nurturing those divisions towards conflict. radical proposals—that the European It might be that the issue put to referendum vote was not formally presented in Parliament should have the ‘power of those terms, but the history of British/European relations, which saturates British initiative’: i.e. to initiate legislation for national culture, determined that that is how the matter was understood. the EU; and that half of the Commission The electorate decided that the state should leave the EU. Ministers should be women, which means that she decides who should be The Government that put the issue to the electorate had been expecting a different a Commissioner, not the Member States. result. It hoped for a strong showing of support for leaving the EU in order to If implemented these two strengthen its bargaining position against the EU and compel it to concede further commitments would wreck the long-time reforms in the British interest, but was confident that there would not be a majority existing, founding, principles of the vote for leaving the EU. EU and the Treaty-based arrangements between the Commission, the The Government resigned when the result was announced. That is to say the Member States and the Parliament. Prime Minister, David Cameron, resigned. The Tory Party selected a new leader, Theresa May, who became Prime Minister. She was a Remainer. She called a General But the Irish Times did not see Election, presumably for the purpose of strengthening her Parliamentary base and fit to even mention either of these carrying through a Brexit on terms which involved the least possible distancing of proposals. Why? If it considers Britain from the EU. She lost the majority she inherited from Cameron and succeeded them unimportant, then it betrays a in forming a Government only with the support of the Ulster Unionists. woeful ignorance of what the EU is. continued on page 2 continued on page 5 July 2019 Brexit summary “disaggregated” in order to be implemented. Dublin, Brussels and the other European Irish media debate about the Backstop. According to Peter Foster writing in capitals should hold position and play a the Daily Telegraph (15 July), Johnson waiting game over the Summer months and Johnson’s strategy sees the first step of his Brexit strategy allow events in Britain to take their course, Johnson who is virtually certain to win as guaranteeing in law the future rights according to the London correspondent of the Tory Leadership contest and become of the 3.2 million EU citizens currently the Irish Times, Denis Staunton (11 July). UK Prime Minister on July 24th, voted resident in the UK. His second step will Good, if obvious, advice. Meanwhile for Theresa May’s Deal the last time it be to suspend the £39 billion divorce Brexit developments continue to come came before the British Commons. But in payment pending the negotiation of a thick and fast. This article will examine the Leadership campaign his position has Free Trade Agreement with the EU. Boris Johnson’s strategy, the change of hardened. He now describes the Withdrawal Third, he wants the Backstop removed guard at the leadership of the EU and the Agreement as “defunct” and needing to be continued on page 6 Parliament had referred the issue to CONTE NTS direct decision by the electorate. This Page was done by general agreement. Then, England As It Is. Editorial 1at the Election, all parties committed The New Commission President. Jack Lane 1themselves to implement the decision of July 19 Brexit Summary. Dave Alvey 1the electorate. And all agreed to inform Readers' Letters: Fake Lies. Paul R. Hyde the EU that the two-year process of Historians' Sources Not Always Reliable. Donal Kennedy 3withdrawal had been triggered. LEST WE FORGET (4). Extracts from Irish Bulletin. This issue lists And so it fell to Parliament to do what British Acts Of Aggression, 2nd May - 7 June 1919 (ed. Jack Lane) 8 the electorate decided should be done— Es Ahora. Julianne Herlihy (Travels And Some Reflections) 12 and Parliament decided not to do it. Lest We Forget The 1974 Bombings. Manus O’Riordan (Two Books Reviewed) 14 There had been agreement to put the Freemasons! Wilson John Haire 16 matter to referendum. Now there was Casement Controversy: The Seen, The Unseen And The Disappeared. conspiracy, or collaboration, to restore to Jack Lane 17 Parliament the sovereign authority which A Scotsman, An Englishman, An Irishman And Casement Diary Discretion. had been delegated to the populace, but to Tim O'Sullivan (Part 2) 19 do so by means of verbal juggling which Banks And Money Creation. John Martin 21 did not openly say that the populace was Clarifying Money Creation. Martin Dolphin 21 politically ignorant and had not measured Some Zionist Terrorism. Donal Kennedy 22 up to the responsibility required of it. Biteback: History Is Vital, At The Core Of What We Are. Pat Maloney 22 Parliamentary authority was restored 'Constitutionalism'. And An O'Casey Song For A Collins Execution. over the matter that Parliament had Manus O’Riordan 23 delegated to the populace. This was Europhile? (Report of remarks by Ambrose Evans Pritchard) 24 done by Judicial decision, which actually Biteback: 'The Brigade'. Tom Cooper (Unpublished letter to overruled the sovereignty of Parliament Sunday Independent) 24 by making it subject to law. Does It Stack Up? Michael Stack (Computerisation of Transport) 25 Judge Jonathan Sumption, in his Reith Biteback: Protestants And The War Of Independence. Brian P. Murphy osb Lectures, made a feeble defence of the (Letter, Sunday Independent) 26 Judicial action which gave Parliament the final say on any Brexit arrangements by Labour Comment, edited by Pat Maloney: saying the Judges only did for Parliament Patricia King: ICTU Address what it was proving incapable of doing (back page) for itself. But the point was not whether Parliament agreed with the decision made about it by the Judges, but that the Judges decided they had competence In the days of Parnell and Redmond, whose purpose is to be British, and which in the matter, and gave judgment, and the Irish Home Rule Party, with its block in the pursuit of this purpose organizes Parliament accepted the judgment. of 80 Westminster seats, occasionally separately from the other British Parties. held the balance-of-power when neither Simultaneously with this, Parliament of the British Parties won an outright This absurdity was imposed on Ulster asserted its independence of Government, majority. That a tiny Unionist Party in in 1921 by the British Unionist Party and a number of MPs who should have Northern Ireland—Paisley’s Party— which, in 1922, became the Tory Party. known better, announced excitedly that should hold that position was the least If “Ulster” had not been excluded from the era of Parliamentary democracy had probable of all the strange things that the British political system in the early begun. have happened in the past three years. 1920s by the joint action of the Tory and Labour Parties, there would not now be There is no necessary connection The balance-of-power in the British an “Ulster” Party making life difficult for between Parliament and democracy. For state was held by a miniscule Party its creators at Westminster. Ulsterishness most of its existence Parliament was not from Ireland that was a British Party but would have been heavily modified and a democratically-composed body. It was was extraneous to the British political woven into British political life by the the King’s Council. It was a kind of system. action of the Tory and Labour Parties. representative body of nobles by means But it is pleasant to see chickens of which the Monarch governed. Ulster Unionism is a political absurd- coming home to roost. ity. “Ulster”—the Six County bit of In the previous Brexit, known as it—has a Party which wants to be in Teresa May’s Government has been the English Reformation, the King, the United Kingdom. It is organised crippled by its dependence on the DUP. Henry VIII, consulted Parliament, but separately for the purpose of being in It could not act decisively. Its indecision essentially he gave it instructions. He was the United Kingdom even though it has gave the opportunity to all sources of making up a new religion and destroying never, since the United Kingdom was discontent with the outcome of the the old. He expanded the nobility out of formed, been anywhere but in the United referendum to express themselves and to the plunder of the old religion, and it did Kingdom. Its “Ulster”, we are told feel their way through casuistic reasoning his bidding. author i­­tatively, is as securely British as to the conviction that the right thing to A hundred years later Parliament Finchley.
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