STAND UP TO UNIONIST SECTARIANISM! - REGISTER TO VOTE AND HELP TO BUILD A NEW & BETTER IRELAND... 🇮🇪
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Next May's Stormont & Council Elections will be the most important here in years. There is a wind of change in the North of Ireland and we can deliver a message that there is no going back to the past.
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🟢 NO GOING BACK
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SINN FEIN ARE NOW DELIVERING MORE FOR WORKING CLASS UNIONISTS THAN ANYBODY WITHIN THE DUP AND POLITICAL UNIONISM.
THE NEW REALITY IN 2026...
Unionism is again in turmoil this morning as it deals with the fallout from the passing of Sinn Fein's Holiday Hunger Bill last night in the Stormont Assembly.
The Bill, championed by Sinn Fein MLA Danny Baker, passed overwhelmingly, with cross- Party support from Alliance, Gerry Carroll of PBP & the SDLP. All three Unionist Party's opposed it.
DFM Emma Little-Pengelly and other Unionists have since been lashing out on Social Media, as they face growing criticism from within their own community, for opposing a Bill which will establish a legal requirement to allow thousands of families in poverty to receive financial payments to help feed their children during Summer School Breaks.
These include tens of thousands of children within Unionist & Loyalist communities.
The DUP could not get enough support last night to veto the Bill. The Bill also marked another glaring miscalulation by UUP Leader Jon Burrows who had an opportunity to create space for his Party, but he once again succumbed to the temptation to oppose anything from Sinn Fein rather than to promote a liberal Unionist alternative.
However, Independent Unionist Claire Sugden from East Derry, did support Danny Baker's Bill.
This is a huge personal triumph for Danny Baker who has been doing the groundwork for the past four years on his Private Members Bill.
It also gives a glaring insight into a new reality within a rapidly changing political orbit here in the North of Ireland. Sinn Fein are currently delivering more practical help to working class Unionists and Loyalists, than anybody within political Unionism.
Unionism is now so obsessed with in-fighting that it has completely lost its way. All three Unionist Parties are promoting the same right wing populist agenda which delivers absolutely nothing for the working class Unionist communities that they claim to represent.
Welcome to our new reality...
HENRY JOY. 🇮🇪
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Here we go again, Jamie. Maybe before lecturing Eoin Tennyson about human rights, explain which human rights Protestants have actually lost. I assume you are back in your attic again, given your odious output here.
Freedom of religion? Freedom of expression? Peaceful assembly? Equality before the law? Are Protestants forbidden from worshipping? Has the Orange Order been banned? Are its members prevented from celebrating their culture?
The answer is a resounding, absolutely fecking not. Drumcree concerns a disputed parade route and the competing rights of marchers and residents. Human rights are fecking universal protections, not an unconditional entitlement to sing sectarian songs and march wherever you please.
And let's not forget that these supposedly persecuted marchers belong to the Orange Order, an organisation whose membership excludes Catholics, an organisation that celebrates terrorism in its rank and file, by not only having individuals who are members of loyalist paramilitaries but who carry the flags and emblems in their parades that celebrate these murderers. So how are those claims about human rights looking now? Quite a contradiction, especially when you're accusing everyone of supremacy.
Eoin Tennyson asked a perfectly reasonable question, why should children learning Irish threaten unionist identity? Instead of answering, you've returned to Drumcree with your 35 elderly men.
But there's another dimension to this entire circus, your relentless pursuit of political relevance. You appear to have convinced yourself that Drumcree represents some glorious victory for loyalism over those pesky Catholics, a chance to resurrect the old mentality of marching wherever you want, regardless of the people who live there. Yet political unionism is seriously divided, and that division provides fertile ground for the politics of grievance and fear-mongering. Find a fracture, increase the resentment, identify an audience receptive to yesterday's sectarian arguments and suddenly an unelected keyboard commentator with a love for all things UVF has a platform. From the bedroom to Drumcree, ffs. It could have been anyone exploiting that opening. It just happened to be you, fella, endless bitter cultural confrontation, suspicion of anything Irish and a worldview in which compromise is surrender.
And the image of a political vampire from the 1970s, perpetually perusing X and the television studios searching for the next grievance to feed upon, is difficult to ignore. But unionists who want practical government, economic progress and a stable shared society have every reason to question what this endless confrontation actually delivers. When the Drumcree spectacle eventually subsides, will it be back to the familiar keyboard routine of invoking the IRA, defending loyalist paramilitary narratives and searching for another controversy?
The central contradiction remains, young fella: you accuse nationalists of having fragile identities while portraying Irish-language education, cultural expression and residents exercising their rights as threats to your own.
And you still haven't answered the simplest question of all. Precisely which human rights have been taken away from Protestants, and how does allowing a child to learn Irish threaten the Union?
⭕️ The DUP, TUV, and UUP have used a Petition of Concern to block a Sinn Féin Bill that would have ensured teachers and staff are in place in Irish-medium schools to meet growing demand.
Using the Petition of Concern to deny children the support they deserve is despicable.
It is blatant sectarianism and anti-Irish bigotry, and yet another desperate attempt to drag us backwards.
There is no going back to the past.
Sinn Féin will continue to stand up for people’s rights, and face down those who want to drag us back.
If this doesn’t make the undecided vote for a UI then nothing will Burrows talking about how he wants this place to work for everyone, I can only imagining how he treated the CNR community when he was a cop let finish them off in may get your families registered to vote.
I have to say after the latest polls showing unionism in big trouble and nationalism galvanized big Gavin has pulled a rabbit out of the hat with his fantastic ideas of blocking kids from learning Irish what a master stroke I’m definitely sold on the union now 🤦🤦🤦
@JamieBrysonLLB So basically what you’re saying is, if you lot don’t get your own way, you’re going to wreck the place? What age are you? Just go away and spread you bile somewhere else.
@MatthewOToole2@uuponline@duponline “Our heritage will be trampled on in a united Ireland” cry the wallys tramping on the heritage of others in the statelet.
@JamieBrysonLLB It’s not a human right to walk down a road you absolute wing nut. Only you could compare this to children’s education. There are no depths to which you won’t sink. I can’t wait to see your face when we finally get a border poll. All your hatred and bigotry will not be forgotten!