I was listening to the TV last night, and I usually do not bother, however I was quare gunked over the opening lines of the program about loyalist decommisioning, the presenter came out with, and I paraphrase, "most people say the troubles started in 1969 but they are wrong, they started in 1966 with the murder of Peter by Gusty Spence of the UVF".

What is the importance of this? Well it completely overturns the British govt line, supported of course by the BBC and in turn RTE and commentators from deefer world, that the loyalist violennce was only ever retaliatory and if the IRA was to blame.

Does this signal a shift in policy and are we now to be treated to a re-education process by the British as a prelude to something else?

Not sure what the program was but they interviewed Dawn Purvis of the PUP and Billy Hutchinson of whatever he wants to call it this week. Perhaps someone can help by filing in the blank in my memory. (Too many summers and too many alcoholic beverages

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acht "Cromwellian dog" is focal faire againn
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