Blame the Constitution not the Rioters

Blame the Constitution not the Rioters


IN his letter July 18 Mr Stevenson adopts the blinkered viewpoint that for him and people in general all that matters in a country is the bread and butter economy, to paraphrase his position. As a Christian economist I would bring this quote to Mr Stevenson’s attention: -

Not by bread alone does man live but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. Matthew 4:4

This suggests to me there is higher spiritual order in the life of the individual than bread and butter economics. An individual’s belly isn’t the whole person, as the adherents of a consumer, debt driven, obesity ridden, socio-economy would have us believe.

With that in mind I would point out to Mr Stevenson that in any state there is a higher order than the economy. It is the constitution. A state constitution that has the support of all of the people is a pre-condition for a stable peaceful state that will enjoy vital economic growth and wealth creation. This is missing in the six county/ N. Ireland state. There the state constitution has only the support of some of the people but not all. There are two conflicting heads of state involved two conflicting national flags and anthems, with two conflicting national passports. Such a state is constituted, as being at war with itself so it is not surprising that hotheaded youths in Ardoyne will resort to warlike acts. For Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein these misguided individuals cannot be written off as mindless thugs as the press does but are seen as the tragic victims of an unwritten, undemocratic, imposed and indefensible six county/ N. Ireland state constitution. Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein can supply an answer. It is the reform of the United Kingdom constitution to the written Federal Kingdom constitution. The know-how for this is set out in the Blog: -

www.blogstoday.co.uk/irishproblemsolved.blog

The know-how to change the United Kingdom to a Federal Kingdom will require the political centre in N. Ireland to unite into a single central party under the banner of Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein. The political centre in N. Ireland is fractured in three into the U.U.P., the S.D.L.P. and the Alliance Party. These three parties should form a single party as indicated. This new central party should take as its platform the reform of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland into the Federal Kingdom of the Sovereign Nation of Ireland and Great Britain or vice versa depending on whether one is speaking from an Irish or British perspective. This reform should be expressed in the National Government of Ireland Act. The central party should make clear to all that it is United Ireland friendly, Union and Crown friendly. In this way the new central party Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein will be a party for all and is non-sectarian.

In such a reformed Federal kingdom in relation to Ireland expressed in the National Government of Ireland Act there would be: -
(a) One Head of State – a reformed Crown whose constitutional duties in all Ireland would be defined and stated clearly in writing in the Act.
(b) One national flag in Ireland---the Royal Flag of Ireland. This should be a redesign of the existing tricolour with the Red Cross of St Patrick imposed on the white central panel of the Tricolour along with a Crown and harp emblems in blue. At the bottom of the central panel there should be a shamrock in outline. This flag should be defined in the Act as being, at one and the same time, the National flag of Ireland and the symbol of the Federal Kingdom of the Sovereign Nation of Ireland and Great Britain. The Union Jack would be defined in the Act as the national flag of Great Britain and the symbol of Great Britain and the Sovereign Nation of Ireland. This is only a small piece in the jigsaw of the Act. A fully developed version of the Act can be found in the novel ---THE WAY IRELAND OUGHT TO BE--- Published by Authorhouse and available at Amazon Books. This version of the Act runs to over 20,000 words and is an attempt to cover all aspects of life in Ireland Joining the flags together as a composite is more sensible than attempting to join Peter Robinson and Martin Mc Guinness at the hip at Stormont; these men stand for division and violence in Ireland and their coalition at Stormont is a constitutional absurdity.

© One National Anthem, which can be sung by all. There are many fine songs in Ireland, any one of which would suit this.

(d) One National passport written in Irish and English showing a picture of the Crown as Head of State.

(e) One National Central Government in Dublin called Dail Eireann with legislative power devolved to four Provincial Houses: -
(1) The House of Ulster.
(2) The House of Munster.
(3) The House of Leinster.
(4) The House of Connaugh.

The main problem to be faced in all of this is the reality that Ireland is bedevilled with rigid political doctrinal mindsets. If a Federal Kingdom is to be put in place these doctrinal mindsets will have to be replaced with secular politics. Secular politics are grounded in reason, logic and observation. To eradicate rigid mindsets that are frozen in belief about personalities of bygone times will be a difficult uphill struggle. Mind sets that embody Tone and Pearse on the one hand and King William at the Boyne, the U.V.F. at the Somme and Craig, Carson and the Ulster Covenant on the other,. are deeply embedded in the Irish psyche and will be difficult to uproot but this will have to be undertaken if a Federal Kingdom of peace harmony and reconciliation is to be realized. This rigid doctrinaire belief can be a preamble to violence.

But even so it is still possible to design a Federal Kingdom constitution for all Ireland, which should be as acceptable to the Catholics of Kerry as to the Protestants of Derry and in that way a peaceful stable United Ireland arrived at in which Catholic Protestant and Dissenter are united as Irishmen. The Government of Ireland Act partitioned the Island only the National Government of Ireland Act can reunite the island

Michael Gillespie Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein