'on the run' bill

[hellison]

I 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.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

i have a vague, distant memories of being able to vote in ways that might actually mean something. these memories all take place in scotland...

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Back in the Mists of Time eh?

It's a shame they're only dropping it because Sinn Fein don't want to play anymore, which will just be construed (possibly legitimately for once) as the government jumping to their tune yet again.


But still, it's dropped, for now at any rate.

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

Doon Sooth da guvernmint was having probs too, I don't think it was constitutional. It would have to go to referendum
THAT would be interesting

[hellison.livejournal.com]

They were trying to sell it here as an extension of the prisoner release part of the GFA, just skipping over the part where these people had never BEEN prisoners or faced any kind of justice/punishment for their crimes.

Tho Gerry manically trying to explain why it was FINE for terrorists to be let of crime but letting off members of the security forces was an Insult to the Victims that Could not be Swallowed was a remarkable lesson in How to Spew Hypocrisy. The man has a prodigious talent.

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

no noodly appendage has ever touched him! obviously his beard got in the way...

what a wanker

(oh no! _unhurt_ has truly corrupted me! Slash fic Gerry/Ian! Gerry/Martin! HELP ME)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

jesus NO! stop that right now. slash is my happy place. i can deal with (i.e. blank out) the knightrider smut, but you've take it too far.

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

UR FOLT!
U BORKE MY BRANE!

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Hey keep the slash out of my Incisive Political Rantings!

(tho the whole concept of gerry/ian is making me giggle quite inappropriately)

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

something is going to have to be done, then....................................................................................................................................................................................................

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

sorry. but now i'm imagining them on a date.

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...

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

As I have pointed out before, the more gerry talks crap, the more he strokes his beard.

OH NO! it's happened again!
Gerry/Beard!

Argh!

[adelpha.livejournal.com]

Maybe there's a brain slug (ala Futurama) under there :P

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

WOW
this could explain nearly 40 years of history!

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