Her Majesty the Queen must wish it was Diamond Jubilee year absolutely every year, such fun is she having. Watching Cheryl Cole duet with Gary Barlow must have been three minutes of almost incalculable joyfulness. How, she must have wondered, can they surpass this? Well, yet another treat is in store, for now she is being offered a trip to Northern Ireland — to shake the hand of Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuiness.
This will be the veritable icing on the cake. And made even more pleasurable by the graciousness of Sinn Fein. As Gerry Adams said: ‘This is a very significant initiative by us. We don’t have to do it, we are doing it despite the fact that it will cause difficulties for some of our own folk but we think it’s good for Ireland.’
Bloody magnanimous of you, Gerry, thanks so much. I suppose it wouldn’t be terribly regal if the Queen were to nut McGuinness between the eyes, or spit on his shoes.
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