Shadow assembly will solve nothing

REMEMBER Bill Clinton’s horrible gaffe? No, not the blatant lies he spun about his affair with Monica Lewinsky, but the joke he made about the Irish during an address to the United Nations.

Shadow assembly will solve nothing

Here it is in all its glory and gory:

“I spent an enormous amount of time trying to help the people in the land of my forebears in Northern Ireland get over 600 years of religious fights. And every time they make an agreement to do it, they’re like a couple of drunks walking out of the bar for the last time - when they get to the swinging door they turn around and go back in and say, I just can’t quite get there.”

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