Letter: Mistrust in Ulster

Friday 09 July 1999 00:02 BST

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Sir: Anthony Gentles (letter, 5 July) suggests that, if the Ulster Unionists will not accept the peace terms now on offer, we should leave them to sort out their affairs with Dublin on their own.

I agree. I have often wondered whether the Unionists ever stop to consider whether the residents of Great Britain want to shoulder the burden of keeping these petty, bigoted, quarrelsome people within a "United Kingdom".

If the deal is not accepted, might not a referendum of the English, the Scots and the Welsh on this question serve to clarify the situation and perhaps concentrate the Unionists' minds?

RUBY LANCASHIRE

Devizes, Wiltshire

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