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Provisional Sinn Fein and the artificial creation of crisis to stabilise the British imposed structures. As an old Paul Brady song would have it "Nothing but the same old story". The deal is always done it's only a matter of timing and carefully choreographed media display's.
The artificially created crisis
Today in the six county state, known as ‘Northern Ireland’ (itself an artificially created entity), political ‘crisis’ appears to be the modus operandi of the local political groups. The political parties in the northern statelet lurch from crisis to crisis in what appears to be a never ending circus. On close inspection as always the devil is in the detail. This is negotiation politics, there is no threat to the status quo from the establishment political parties merely an endless round of attempting ‘one up man ship’. Provisional Sinn Fein (SF) like the DUP do not want the British devolved administration to collapse both have too much at stake, the only power they have is within that state and within those institutions therefore their main purpose for actually existing is gone, not to mention the personal financial benefits if the structures fail.
The endless creation of crisis by the political groups, particularly by Sinn Fein is not only a game with the DUP but is a game aimed at continuing the delusion that Sinn Fein is actually working for Republican aims and objectives from within the British administration. When SF sign up to a deal (as they will with this present one) it is played to their voters as a hard fought victory by ‘Republican’s’, the mantra being “we got one over on the orangies”. Thus the circus continues, SF masquerading as fighting the Republican cause, the rolling out of a British plan for the north of Ireland portrayed as some sort of strategy by the leadership of Sinn Fein, stability within the northern state and its political institutions assured.
Sinn Fein and the DUP will make any deal that will keep them in power, there will necessarily be an artificially created crisis, a media choreographed battle of will’s, with stern faces and dire warnings but in reality it is merely business as usual within the Stormont assembly.