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Who Wants Jobs When You Can Have Killers on the Streets?
Thanks to Slugger and A Tangled Web for pointing out a story at UTV about republicans protesting at the jailing of convicted bomber Sean Kelly and forcing a meeting of EU employment ministers, to be hosted by David Blunkett at Springvale, to be cancelled. 60 people showed up to protest at Kelly's rearrest which happened a few weeks back: presumably they all had the day off work for the protest - yeah right.
As Michael McGimpsey rightly points out, Sinn Fein are always crying out for investment in west Belfast because it's so "deprived" (based on events like this, I'd say depraved was closer but that's neither here nor there).
"When you consider that this protest was staged in an area where Sinn Fein representatives are always calling for continued investment from Europe because of deprivation, it is more than just stupidity. It is biting the hand that feeds them."
Michael McGimpsey, UUP
Follow up:
The antics of these scumbags never ceases to amaze me. Northern Ireland is so devoid of investment that over 40% of the employment in the country is in the public sector (and how many of those jobs are worthless?). As if it's not bad enough that one in 5 people are on state handouts, the ones that have jobs are disproportionately funded by the taxpayer! It looks like none of this is going to change if Sinn Fein have any say in it.
It raises my suspicions about how far Sinn Fein and their brain-dead dogmatic followers will actually go in their attempts to undermine Northern Ireland's economy in an effort to prove that Northern Ireland can't work. All they're really doing is ensuring we'll never know, for until they stop trying to destroy it, it's impossible to get a fair assessment of how Northern Ireland would cope as an economic entity without their constant attempts to bankrupt it.
I haven't even yet mentioned the fact that this protest to release a fucking convicted bomber comes only a day after Islamist terrorists killed over 50 people in bomb attacks in central London! They're not only braindead they're downright vindictive to boot!
The province is crying out for more investment - one thing we definitely don't more of is scumbag murderers on our streets!
Fucking priorities people!