Were she alive, Lady Thatcher would be six months from her 101st birthday.
She died at 87, exceeding the average expected lifespan, and outliving the provisional IRA, which died long before she did.
And this is why no one in the South should ever trust the Soc dems.
And to any self proclaimed ‘patriots’ or ‘nationalists’ in the South - let this be proof of who the real enemy are - the social democrats. The favoured party of the establishment and Fianna Fáil.
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Sinn Féin has joined with political parties, groupings and Dáil members in urging British PM Andy Burnham to intervene immediately to stop the Orange Order march on Garvaghy Road.
Twelve days of fear and uncertainty is unacceptable. Residents of Garvaghy Road should not have to remain on 24-hour vigil peacefully protesting to stop an unwanted march in their community
Decades of peace and progress must not be undone.
Swift action is required by Andy Burnham.
Jamie, of all the unbelievably shameful things you’ve shared recently, this has to be one of the most, if not the most extraordinary and deeply offensive. On so many levels
You’ve actually shared an Orange Order poster that takes Martin Niemöller’s famous First They Came warning about Nazi persecution and twists it into a tale of unionist victimhood.
Do you, or indeed the senior figures within unionism and loyalism, have any appreciation of how disgusting and grotesque that comparison is? I would really be keen to see if anyone has any balls to address this absolute disgusting post.
Niemöller was warning about the systematic persecution and of course the fecking murder of people under Nazi Germany. Yet here we have the B Specials, UDR, RUC and Orange Order portrayed as though they were victims of some comparable campaign of persecution.
The B Specials were disbanded amid serious findings about sectarian discrimination. The UDR was amalgamated into the Royal Irish Regiment. The RUC was replaced following the Good Friday Agreement and the demand for policing reform across NI
And the Orange Order? Still marching, still exercising its rights and still insisting on parading through a community that has objected for decades.
What makes this particularly offensive is the complete absence of nationalist suffering from this rewriting of history. No mention of discrimination, the civil rights movement or the experiences of Catholics under the very institutions now being portrayed as victims.
And then you accompany it with a warning about appeasing the aggressor.
Who exactly is the aggressor here ? The Catholic demanding equality? The nationalist seeking fair treatment? The family wanting accountable policing? Or the Garvaghy Road resident asking for their community’s wishes to be respected?
I’d genuinely like to hear senior unionist and loyalist representatives explain whether they consider this an appropriate use of a warning about Nazi persecution and if they have the balls to stand up and clarify that this individual and indeed this photo is actually speaking for you?
Because the underlying message is seriously disturbing, that reforming institutions, ending discrimination and sharing power somehow constitute the persecution of unionism akin to that of nazi Germany
Nobody is coming for Protestant identity, religion or culture. Equality isn’t persecution, and losing exclusive privileges isn’t oppression.
To appropriate the suffering of Nazi victims to suggest otherwise is an extraordinary distortion of history. And the fact that this is being circulated during the current climate without apparent embarrassment should concern anyone genuinely interested in reconciliation, because this is a step too far and reprehensible.
@JonBurrowsMLA I see you follow this @VintageUVF account Jon.
A Twitter account that glorifies the terrorist organisation that your RUC colluded extensively with throughout the troubles.
I guess old habits die hard eh.
Daniel ‘Coffee Machine’ McCroissant won’t be happy with this article. Nor will the greatest person that’s ever existed (in his own head) Matthew O’Toolebox.
Nationalists and republicans of Twitter - we need 46 seats in the assembly elections for a nationalist majority. Is it possible do we think? If SF get +1 upper Bann, north Belfast, Lagan Valley, east Derry, south down and east Antrim and SDLP 5 other seats - we could do it.