Why Sinn Féin Is Betting the Republic on a Mechanism the British Have Already Told Us They Won’t Use
How a party that once fought to remove the British built its entire strategy on a clause the British wrote, the British control, and the British have now told us in writing they have no intention of ever using.
Sinn Féin tell people freedom is coming. Not through struggle, not through building anything, but through a box on a ballot paper that a British Secretary of State may, at their own discretion, one day decide to print.
They call it the border poll. They talk about it the way the old movement used to talk about the Republic itself, as though it were inevitable, as though history were doing the work for them. Nobody in that leadership will tell you the plain truth of the thing: this mechanism has never once delivered what they are promising. Not here, not anywhere, not ever. And the people holding the pen have already told us why.
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I wonder if the IRA would have called a ceasefire if they knew 30 years later the British government would be stating that a democratic referendum to decide on unity is off the table.
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ReplyDeleteyes we where comprehensivly compromised,BMI played there game well,past tense,now where have placed their sleepers within SF,south?ditto in the north?what's there game plan?the Long & Secret Game.
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DeleteThe Crazy Gang, a move like that used to be called hook, line and sinker.
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ReplyDeletei,ve no idea why they did,nt stiff us there's so many points in this?Social Engineering that suggests the game plan started in Athlone,manoeuvring known faces,hiding in plain sight that beating yourself up with GA strap on wobblee headed dildo or an 8lb semi frozen salmon seems,feels rationale!benifit?we,ve now got a President s backing & the next will follow in situ, i,m convinced we,ll i,m 61 December time probably exit 75/76 my age grouping will see the vote,if we don,t?aahhh well,"here is my vengeance the smiles on our childrens faces,"the win?everything in place within 23 hours?ask the Yank,not in place we become a game play,look anywhere in the world?bizarre the win was,nt worth the win,=take on NATO as formed a united Socailist Ireland?nah.
correction"us forming a united Socalist Ireland."
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