Thread by @gerryconway

The sins of 1920 will continue to ripple through Irish history until the country is whole again. Every self-serving move Britain makes regarding Northern Ireland comes at a high cost to the Irish people. washingtonpost.com/world/europe/b…

As an entity, Northern Ireland is a political myth, created with the same Big Power cynicism and self-interest that created Iraq, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and, later, North and South Vietnam. Outsiders created a ”reality” that didn't exist, for political purposes.

To ”protect” Northern Irish Protestants from the imaginary threat of an ”Irish Catholic” Republic of Ireland, Britain created the equally imaginary entity of Northern Ireland-- and to prevent an imaginary disenfranchisement of Protestants, de facto disenfranchised Catholics.

The hard border Northern Ireland fears is the result of political gerrymandering 100 years ago. The Good Friday Accords were an effective political disguise to avoid revealing the underlying truth: There is no real ”Northern Ireland”-- there is only a divided Ireland.

Sooner or later the people of ”Northern Ireland” need to accept physical reality and quit living in a political fantasy. Britain doesn't give two sh*ts about ”Northern Ireland” except as a Conservative political wedge in Parliament. Ireland is their home and their nation.

The only real solution for ”Northern Ireland” to the #Brexit fiasco is unification with the Republic of Ireland. Britain doesn't care about your problems or your lives. Its government has made that clear repeatedly. Stop being its political football.

100 years of a divided Ireland is long enough.