It is time for unionists to awake from a post-1920 slumber

(His article can be read here, August 29)

Dear Ben (if I may),

You are a clever and well informed young man (young, that is, as compared to me).

My life was changed irrevocably when I spoke out against Margaret Thatcher’s Anglo-Irish Agreement in 1985 along with Mary Robinson and Conor Cruise O’Brien, which took unionists to the verge of an all out civil war.

Northern Ireland assuredly is not Finchley and you are still being treated by Westminster as a British colony.

When are you going to wake up from your post-1920 slumber?

The Brits are putting a border in the Irish Sea. That’s OK with the DUP. A party hardly fit to run a parish council.

The Brits have imposed on you a liberal abortion policy that must run counter to the deepest religious and moral beliefs and convictions of at least 50% of the people if Northern Ireland, Anglicans, Catholics and Presbyterians alike.

You meekly accept that and rejoice in a peerage for Nigel Dodds in a corrupt House of Lords.

Why did I put my health, my career and marriage in danger in 1985 to speak out in your defence?

You treat us, the English, with contempt.

Please grow up before it is too late and seek friends and alliances that you can trust. Assuredly not the British.

But I thank you for coming to our aid in August and September 1940 in the Luftschlacht um England.

That is the Air Battle of England, not Britain.

Look up London, Kent and Sussex on a map.

Dr Gerald Morgan, Dublin

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