This nightmare of a scheme shatters the case for the
present Home Rule Bill in two respects. First, if every district which in any sense could be said to be sell-containing or to have a unity of interests were to have a right to Home Rule, the argument for forcing Ulster under a Dublin Parlia- ment vanishes into thin air. Mr. Churchill can never again logically or fairly argue in favour of the compulsion of Ulster. We are, of course, delighted for one reason that he has given us his plan, because he accepts thereby the argument we have always used, that if the Nationalists of Ireland are to be allowed their own Parliament, a similar right to choose what Parlia- ment they shall live under cannot be refused to the people of North-East Ulster. The foundation of the Home Rule Bill is torn away. Mr. Churchill has joined us in tearing it away with his own hands.
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