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Living through things does not necessarily improve perception, it can also lead to bitterness and distrust.
It is something else if you meet somebody in the park near you who did 15 years for shooting an UVF guy cos they shot one of his brothers. That is 2 miles from my place. He thinks nothing will be fixed until everybody who lived through it is dead and has prejudices against unionists.
Who mistrust the republicans cos saying "sorry" for killing loads of people won't bring anyone back either. And so it goes on.
At least the EU teams are informed and not having this.
JWestland
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Cheers - I was already more or less informed about that, I guess I might have expressed myself in a slightly misleading way: I meant that as a relative newcomer (having followed UK politics for the last decade at most), my perception of what is actually being debated today is untainted by the memories of what happened prior, as is the case with people who've actually lived through things like the IRA bombings. If you've lived through that, NI will most likely be established as a 'thing' in British politics in your mind, and it might be less obvious how completely disregarded and ignored the subject actually is in current politics.
This is purely based on my observations, but I've seen it happen quite a few times that people with some knowledge on the NI situation were talking about it, the GFA, etc., with a certain air of "this is a major thing and really impacts the situation", because, well, it should. In the meantime, I'm sitting here thinking "yeah to you this is clear, but no one in power actually cares at all, never mind being properly informed to the level that their position in government would necessitate".