ninfan – Member
Yes, absolutely, I do
You lot still don’t seem to get that there’s a difference between before the ceasefire and after.
Once Can’t believe it’s Not IRA and the Red hand Gang, and the rest of them, renounced and permanently abandoned violence as a means to an end they became legitimate politicians*, because that’s the only way a peace process is ever going to work, see South Africa as another example
The DUP, as elected politicians have as much right to participate in the UK government as they do in NI government, the same as SF have a perfect right to be in government in NI, or here if they chose to take their seats in Westminster.
some of they may well have been odious bastards that I wouldn’t shed a tear for their passing, as I said about McGuinness when he died “I have to give him credit for changing his ways, and being instrumental in the success of the peace process, the common ground, and indeed friendship, he seems to have found in his work with Ian Paisley is nothing short of remarkable. Despite this I don’t think a thousand lifetimes in hell will make up for the misery he caused in the past.” – my objection to Corbyn is that he, and Abbott, didn’t just speak to (on a partisan basis) but publically supported and repeatedly gave a public stage to PIRA-SF whilst they were engaged in armed struggle against the Democratically elected government, Abbott even saying it herself, “is our struggle — every defeat of the British state is a victory for all of us. A defeat in Northern Ireland would be a defeat indeed.” – Corbyn entirely rejected the will of the people of NI, claimin that a United ireland was the only means to a peaceful outcome, incidentally, something that the UK & Irish governments, the armed groups and the people of NI have ultimately proved him wrong in.
It’s extremely funny watching ninfan twist himself in knots. 😆
