'on the run' bill
Jan. 11th, 2006 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hellisonI had a big rant about this a while back - http://www.livejournal.com/users/hellison/127133.html but now it appears that since even SF aren't interested in it anymore, it is being dropped, hurrah! Though it's a shame it wasn't dropped through government actually realising it was a travesty and would do no real good at all.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4602314.stm
It will probably resurface in some form or other - but at least for now it's gone.
Of course it'll be used as something to hold up progress yet again, but then they'd use just about anything to do that.
ETA - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4602514.stm - reactions from politicians, all what you'd expect really, tho my favourite so far is 'Lord KilcLOONey' with his
"these things broke trust between republicans and the loyalist community." . Yeah, JT, all that trust. There was so MUCH of it, and now it's gone. They broke your little Unionist hearts, those fickle republicans. DAMN THEM.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4602314.stm
It will probably resurface in some form or other - but at least for now it's gone.
Of course it'll be used as something to hold up progress yet again, but then they'd use just about anything to do that.
ETA - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4602514.stm - reactions from politicians, all what you'd expect really, tho my favourite so far is 'Lord KilcLOONey' with his
"these things broke trust between republicans and the loyalist community." . Yeah, JT, all that trust. There was so MUCH of it, and now it's gone. They broke your little Unionist hearts, those fickle republicans. DAMN THEM.
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Date: 2006-01-11 08:08 am (UTC)gerry is unusually talented in the art of keeping a straight face while talking crap. it's all the more depressing as he probably does have the full complement of braincells, something i'm not very convinced of when it comes to some of NI's other political luminaries...
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Date: 2006-01-11 08:14 am (UTC)OH NO! it's happened again!
Gerry/Beard!
Argh!
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Date: 2006-01-11 11:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-11 04:04 pm (UTC)this could explain nearly 40 years of history!
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