Originally Posted by captainflack (Post 12727576)

Can I just take a moment to reassure everyone that leaving the EU with no deal will be absolutely fine. The government has done a lot of preparation in the last two weeks, and I can assure you everything will be fine.

But it will all be the fault of the EU that there will be no deal and erm... everything will be fine. That's all on them, it being absolutely fine and everything.

I can't state that enough. Everything will be fine if there is no deal, but it will be entirely the fault of the EU for inflicting no deal on the UK and everything being fine.

Originally Posted by weasel decentral (Post 12727469)

The Americans certainly had a part to play in the negotiations, though American IRA funding was never state sponsored - it was always misplaced individuals or private collecting. To be fair to the agreement a lot of the provisions did happen- like the weapons decommissioning and prisoner releases. The driving force for the agreement was the saturation point of violence that everyone had reached, the majority of people simply wanted peace.

Originally Posted by HiHo (Post 12730017)

Dear Weasel, As you well know Money Talks and... Tammany Hall put American Politicians on the Ballet until the 1960s. The organisations resulting influence was widespread. Thus the political expedience did not exist to tackle NORAID. It was not until 1981 that a Bonesman calledCharles Sherman Haight was strong enough and smart enough to go after the money and thereby starving the IRA out. A lot of political wideboys have taken credit for "fixing" the Irish problem. The Irish Republican Army was beaten by Skull & Bones and not a shot was fired.

Originally Posted by weasel decentral (Post 12731331)

Only took 17 years for this decisive action to have effect !