It is no surprise that the British have imposed abortion on Northern Ireland, against its will

(The article, by Dawn McAvoy, October 22, can be read here)

Does anyone in Northern Ireland still believe that the UK is a democracy?

It has an unelected House of Lords to which the prime minister has just appointed his brother together with an Old Etonian friend.

It has a voting system by which almost four million British subjects who voted for Ukip in 2015 get one ex-Tory MP.

It has hundreds of barons, baronesses and knights and at the same time thousands of uneducated white English working-class boys.

The British are not democrats at all. They are still a privileged elite who send their children to public schools once destined for the working-class poor but now sustained by wealthy foreigners who can afford fees of some £40,000 per annum.

They are still imperialists in whom the habit of colonial superiority is deeply ingrained.

Hence they treat Northern Ireland to this day as a colony and against the deepest religious and cultural beliefs of the people impose an alien system of abortion.

The English Parliamentary Party does not tell anyone what to believe on abortion, a profound moral issue.

But it does affirm the right of the people of Northern Ireland to determine the matter for themselves.

There will never be peace in Ireland as long as it is governed by the British in Westminster.

Dr Gerald Morgan, Ex leader: English Parliamentary Party, Dublin

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