APPEASEMENT/THE WAR ON TERROR

At a time when the government allows foreign terrorists out of detention and into a tagged house arrest rather than deporting them, comes the news that the government will not even withdraw the House of Commons privileges to the IRA which it specially altered the law to provide.

Those who prefer to call themselves Sinn Fein, including Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, have been revealed by the Irish government to be on the IRA’s ruling Army Council.

It is inconceivable that Tony Blair and the British government did not know this all along, and yet the IRA has received up to £440,000 per annum in parliamentary allowances. Those allowances have now been cancelled, following the recent IRA bank robbery and the murder of Robert McCartney. Nevertheless, the government has decided to allow these bank robbers and terrorists to continue to using parliamentary facilities including the MP’s bars, restaurants and libraries.

So much for the war on terror and so much for our parliamentary democracy.