Message #1897

[AndyHB]

Who's saying the Queen has had to "grovel"? I don't see anything about what she's done over there so far as anywhere near that!

There was a lot of this on the Jeremy Vine show on Radio 2 this afternoon.  Probably a small majority of the callers believed that she was being forced to grovel - and that a Government representative ought to have gone instead to be 'done over'!!

I am glad she is making the visit. Britain treated Ireland in a disgusting fashion over the centuries and a grovelling apology should be made. I am only sorry that we still hold on to N. Ireland, the whole of the country should have been freed from British rule. Having said that I have no truck with the IRA who behave every bit as badly as the British did!

Did 'we' treat the Iraish any worse than we have treated the Welsh?  As for Ulster, I would disagree with you until such time as the Unionists become a minority.  One reason the island was partitioned was because most of the North DIDN'T want to join the South.  How would this have sat with the early freedom fighters for whom FREEDOM was the ultimate.