(Read the BBC article here.)
These officials did not say it publicly for that would have upset London’s long-term plan to sell out Ulster to Irish Republicanism and a united Ireland!
Known
I have no doubt that this was known by the leaders of the Democratic Unionist Party BUT they still entered an evil ‘power-sharing’ alliance with the IRA party just 2 years later!
London’s chief concern was that the robbery would derail its ‘peace plan’, which was in truth nothing more than a devious scheme to betray Northern Ireland.
It is reported in the ‘Belfast Newsletter’, that the then Downing Street chief of staff, Jonathan Powell, said: “that while the heist was a “serious set-back”, there was a need to keep the process going and then prime minister Tony Blair was “not prepared to give up on the process”. (Newsletter 27th December 2025).
History
The outcome is history. Today the nefarious plan of London is well advanced and we see Stormont in the hands of Sinn Fein/IRA and the various Unionist representatives wriggling futilely like flies caught in a spider’s web!
This all is a judgment upon Ulster Protestantism for its rejection of the Bible and its embracing of ecumenical apostasy.
On the other hand, ‘across the water’ we see the fruit of a similar rebellion against the God of mercy Who made England great in former times through the gospel.
Fruit
We see in all the confusion and mayhem that is evident in all the affairs of that nation, the curse of God that was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah.
“Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; that frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish,” Isaiah 44:24-25.
That is an accurate account of the state of affairs in the United Kingdom, more explicitly stated than could be penned any of the political pundits who see a little of the true state of the land!
As the departure from God advances, so too does the day of final reckoning by the Lord with the nations caught up in the latter-day apostasy which will, in the end, produce the final Antichrist. He and his cohorts will rule in the territory of the revived Roman Empire, defying God and persecuting the Jews and those who name the name of Christ.
This is what is revealed in God’s Holy Word for all to see and believe.
Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
29th December 2025