My honest opinion on Ireland

TO: letters@dailymail.co.uk, letters@thetimes.co.uk,

Daily Mail Reader’s Letters, 2 Derry Street London W8 5TT
Submitted 03/04/10
The Times, 1 Pennington Street, London E98 1TA
From: 13 St Helens Close, Cowley, Uxbridge, UB8 3RS
Are Irish Unionists not ambitious enough?

Sir,
With the devolution of policing to Northern Ireland is it now time for the Ulster or Democratic Unionists to try and destroy their historic enemies Sinn Fein at the ballot box by forming a new electoral alliance. If there are parties in the republic of Ireland that wish to reunify the island of Ireland as members of the Commonwealth and within the structures of the Council of the Isles what is there for the UUP or DUP to lose? After all the SDLP wants a republic by consent, why can’t the Ulster Unionists strive for all the 32 counties back within the Commonwealth and ultimately a federal and equal re-union of the Isles by a process of Truth and reconciliation? All of this would be without sectarian, racial and religious violence and discrimination as both the Londonderry Bloody Sunday of 1972 and the one organised by Michael Collins against the UK forces in Dublin in the Irish war must never be repeated.

James Ware