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HUNDREDS of British police will descend on Northern Ireland next week to guard events commemorating the Good Friday Agreement 25 years ago.
US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are expected to visit the territory on April 11-12.
The agreement is credited with ending the violence of the so-called Troubles — but claims it resolved “the Irish question” will ring hollow given the statelet’s legislature has not functioned since the last election due to a Democratic Unionist Party boycott now the nationalist Sinn Fein are the largest party.
Northern Ireland Office minister Steve Baker said today that Whitehall remains “extremely reluctant” to impose direct British rule to resolve the impasse.
The Communist Party of Ireland warned that celebrating the agreement was designed to mask its limitations.
“The agreement is predicated on the fallacious denial of the role of British imperialism in Ireland, ie, that it is an “honest broker” keeping the peace between Catholics and Protestants, while ignoring the fact that these divisions were fostered by British imperialism to safeguard its position in Ireland,” a piece in its publication Unity warned.
