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I Have Broken Sinn Fein
"I have successfully broken the strength of Sinn Fein," So says Ian Paisley on UTV's election coverage.
Let me get this right. Sinn Fein are set to get their best election result in history and Big Ian reckons he's broken their strength?
It just proves what I've been saying for years. Ian Paisley has lost the plot.
Sinn Fein and the DUP feed off each other, they need each other. Their antagonistic brand of politics means they need a bogeyman and they act as perfect bogeymen for each others' tribe. All they have to do to rouse the rabble is hold up an image of the other.
This is all after he was on TV earlier ranting on about righteousness (I think it was a victory for "believers in democracy and righteousness" or something like that) and making scarily similar noises to a Jihadist. How can people continuously vote for this nut bar?
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Comment from: steve [Visitor]
well,who did you vote for then?
as they put in their last manifesto (which was a bit state the ovious) its ome down to the DUP vs Sinn fein, you may not like it but if your a unionist they're probably your best bet.
09 Mar 2007 @ 11:34
Comment from: Onwards [Visitor] 
Yup, he must have lost the plot! Imagine claiming success over Sinn Fein! The cheek of him!
If only Trimble were here.... then we'd be far better off!! Still, Sir Reg done a great job, didn't he?
If only Trimble were here.... then we'd be far better off!! Still, Sir Reg done a great job, didn't he?
09 Mar 2007 @ 11:45
This has got nothing to do with Reg or Trimble, it's about Paisley's blatant hypocrisy and/or having lost his mind.
He clearly can't see the wood for the trees. How can he talk about smashing Sinn Fein or breaking their success when they're vote is growing stronger? Care to venture a guess?
Steven it has NOT come down to DUP and Sinn Fein unless you're stuck in a mindset wher one-upping the other side is more important than making sure your granny gets her hip operation or your kids get a decent education. Fuck that, how about bringing this country's politics into the 20th century?
I don't give a fuck if Paisley or McGuinness is First Minister. I'd rather see a Unionist but Paisley's an embarrassment and a joke. At least if McGuinness was first minister he'd be there embarrassing republicans instead of unionists.
He clearly can't see the wood for the trees. How can he talk about smashing Sinn Fein or breaking their success when they're vote is growing stronger? Care to venture a guess?
Steven it has NOT come down to DUP and Sinn Fein unless you're stuck in a mindset wher one-upping the other side is more important than making sure your granny gets her hip operation or your kids get a decent education. Fuck that, how about bringing this country's politics into the 20th century?
I don't give a fuck if Paisley or McGuinness is First Minister. I'd rather see a Unionist but Paisley's an embarrassment and a joke. At least if McGuinness was first minister he'd be there embarrassing republicans instead of unionists.
09 Mar 2007 @ 11:59
Comment from: steve [Visitor]
not directly my problem(im from scotland) and i guess in a way it is a desire to one up the enemy, BUT only because if you dont one up them youll be in a different country this time next year.
Bringing NI politics into the 21st century will require normalisation of parties, that needs either labour,conservatives and lib dems, OR Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to start campaigning there. if a unionisit or a nationalist wanted real representation and effective goverment that would be the way to get it.
09 Mar 2007 @ 12:17
"if you dont one up them youll be in a different country this time next year. "
That's frankly ballocks and that's the exact sort of fear that the DUP thrive off. There can only be a united Ireland if Northern Ireland votes for it. It has fuck all to do with voting for lunatics like Paisley and his DUP comrades in the election.
"Bringing NI politics into the 21st century will require normalisation of parties..."
21st century is a bit optimistic, let's try getting it into the 20th century first.
"that needs either labour,conservatives and lib dems, OR Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to start campaigning there."
Which is part of the reason I voted Conservative.
That's frankly ballocks and that's the exact sort of fear that the DUP thrive off. There can only be a united Ireland if Northern Ireland votes for it. It has fuck all to do with voting for lunatics like Paisley and his DUP comrades in the election.
"Bringing NI politics into the 21st century will require normalisation of parties..."
21st century is a bit optimistic, let's try getting it into the 20th century first.
"that needs either labour,conservatives and lib dems, OR Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to start campaigning there."
Which is part of the reason I voted Conservative.
09 Mar 2007 @ 12:24
Comment from: STEVE [Visitor]
Good for you,like i said scottish so i dont get the situation like you do.
there will be no united ireland unless NI votes for it, does that mean before there is a UI there will have to be a referendum so that a sinn fein lead and dominant goverment cannot simply pass through legislation to get it?
after reading that back the answer seems quite obvious but i honestly dont know.
if that is the case, how come people dont vote for proper parties!?
there will be no united ireland unless NI votes for it, does that mean before there is a UI there will have to be a referendum so that a sinn fein lead and dominant goverment cannot simply pass through legislation to get it?
after reading that back the answer seems quite obvious but i honestly dont know.
if that is the case, how come people dont vote for proper parties!?
09 Mar 2007 @ 12:30
"does that mean before there is a UI there will have to be a referendum so that a sinn fein lead and dominant goverment cannot simply pass through legislation to get it?"
That's correct. That's what was agreed in the Good Friday Agreement, yet the electorate seem determined to turn every election into a pissing contest.
That's correct. That's what was agreed in the Good Friday Agreement, yet the electorate seem determined to turn every election into a pissing contest.
10 Mar 2007 @ 12:09
Comment from: Mike [Visitor]
"yet the electorate seem determined to turn every election into a pissing contest"
Even European parliament elections where our little ethnic pissing contest is of absolutly no relevence whatsoevr.
At the last EU election a guy I know who emailed all the candidates asking them if their stance on Turkish membership of the EU while they civil rights were still denied to Kurds and Armenians. (Out of the seven candidates He got three replies*)
Say what you like but at least he found himself a somewhat relevent ethnic pissing contest.
* None of them being from the usual "solidarity-with-our-fellow-victims-of-oppression" MOPE suspects.
Even European parliament elections where our little ethnic pissing contest is of absolutly no relevence whatsoevr.
At the last EU election a guy I know who emailed all the candidates asking them if their stance on Turkish membership of the EU while they civil rights were still denied to Kurds and Armenians. (Out of the seven candidates He got three replies*)
Say what you like but at least he found himself a somewhat relevent ethnic pissing contest.
* None of them being from the usual "solidarity-with-our-fellow-victims-of-oppression" MOPE suspects.
11 Apr 2008 @ 22:02
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