From: jethro_uk@hotmailbin.com 
  
 On Sat, 02 Aug 2025 15:02:37 +0100, billy bookcase wrote: 
  
 > "JNugent"  wrote in message 
 > news:mf6eekF838lU1@mid.individual.net... 
 >> On 02/08/2025 11:31 AM, Jethro_uk wrote: 
 >>> 
 > Gross snippage 
 > 
 > 
 >>> Feel free to continue to harangue me and others. But the situation is 
 >>> as it is, whether or not you approve, understand, or even care. 
 >> 
 >> I am haranguing* no-one. 
 >> 
 >> I was asking why British citizens resident in England, Wales and 
 >> Scotland may not avail themselves of the same legal protactions as are 
 >> available to British citizens resident in Northern Ireland. 
 >> 
 >> And as yet, no-one has put forward a reason as to why that protection 
 >> should not be extended to citizens living in GB. 
 > 
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 > 
 > ..."billy bookcase"  wrote in message 
 > news:106j2ig$j3up$1@dont-email.me...>> 
 > 
 > 
 >>> Is there any good reason why discrimination [is] forbidden and policed 
 >>> in Northern Ireland should be allowed 
 >> 
 >> It was forbidden in Northern Ireland specifically because Protestants 
 >> owned the majority, but not all of the major manufacturers. Incomers 
 >> being the main exception. And so favoured their fellow Protestants, 
 >> when recruiting for jobs. 
 >> 
 >> As they also did, when allocating Council Housing. [ And Voting ] 
 >> 
 >>> and even encouraged - in the rest of the UK? 
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >> There is no such religious discrimination in recruiting being practised 
 >> in the remainder of the UK simply because there is *no similar societal 
 >> basis for it. 
 > 
 > The ownership and management of Industry in the UK simply isn't 
 > monopolised by members of one particular religion who might favour 
 > members of their own religion when jobs are in short supply 
 > 
 > * Unlike in the early 19th century when Protestant owned Lancashire 
 > Cotton Mills were largely manned by Irish Catholics. 
 > 
 > 
 >> There of course exceptions; when recruiting for religiously sensitive 
 >> roles for instance 
 > 
 > Which of course was also the start of the Troubles. When in the mid 60's 
 > NICRA The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association copped on to the 
 > fact that in Law anyway, if not in reality,  Blacks In the US had been 
 > granted more Civil Rights than had Catholics in NI. 
 > 
 > This then devolved into peaceful marches which though led by Nationalist 
 > MPs met with increasing amounts of violent resistance, from Protestant 
 > thugs. 
 > 
 > And the rest, as they say, is history 
 > 
 > Well to some people at least;  who were actually awake at the time 
  
 You have to remember that at least one MP as recently as the last decade 
 genuinely did not understand that the Republic of Ireland was a sovereign 
 country. With that level of ignorance in the UK about *it's own history*, 
 I feel the finer points may be lost here. 
  
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