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From: [e-mail] (Matthew Huntbach)
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Subject: Re: This Favorite Lie Again.
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Date: 28 Jan 93 09:16:58 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> Eamonn Gormley <[e-mail]> writes:
> With respect any initiative on NI, your last sentence must be the
>understatement of the century, true as it is.  What I would be interested
>to hear from you, is what the unionists forsee as the long term permanent
>solution?

I am not an Ulster Unionist. The only point to my postings is
to indicate just how difficult the situation is, and to show
how the sort of quick-fix solutions which are so often proposed
in this newsgroup would just fall down on Unionist
intransigence.

In fact there are two divergent strand in Ulster Unionism, one
of which seeks closer integration with the rest of the UK,
("Ulster is as British as Finchley"), the other of which seeks
a virtually independent state with the present borders run under
majority rule. Both strands would put strongly the view that
the main problem in NI today is that the security forces are
not repressive enough and are too tolerant of the Republicans
("the IRA could be defeated tomorrow if the British government
put their minds to it").

Matthew Huntbach