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As we wake up to a young journalist having been tragically killed amidst riots and burning cars in Derry, I wonder if people like @toryboypierce, who mocked any warnings and dismissed them as "project fear", would care at the very least to acknowledge they got it horribly wrong.
My point was, of course, not that “Brexit caused this” - an inanely bad-faith reading of what I said -nor that the issue is not hugely complex. It was that some warned situation in NI was more fragile than appeared and need to be thought through only to be dismissed as alarmists.
That a fractious constitutional process, controlled by Westminster, all about the Irish border, which actively undermines the GFA would give succour to violent groups trying to undermine the GFA, is so BLINDINGLY ONVIOUS, if anyone still doesn’t get it, they don't want to get it.
And, no, I’m not “politicising” anything. This was a political journalist writing a book about the Troubles, killed in an act of political violence. In my view, the disrespectful thing would be to de-politicise her death, as if it were the unfortunate result of random crime.
