The promises on IRA guns, RUC disarmament and terrorist ministers have all been broken. The very issue of the government of Ulster lies as a future betrayal. The one thing that the people of Ulster do not want is to be subsumed into an Irish morass but that is what they will get. This sends a message loud and clear to any other political extremists who have no hope at the ballot box. Racists just need to bomb a few mosques and synagogues and the British government will wring its hands, condemn the violence and sit down with the scum.
Violence is more politically profitable than informed dissent.
A Government so contemptuous of its opponents really should not send this message out. U lster Unionism as we commonly understand it is probably dead. In that the Protestants desired a continued Union of Northern Ireland with Great Britain, this passion is dead. The British, at least the British elite, cannot be trusted. The Irish however are worse.