You’ll have to take it up with the nationalist community mate - they largely abandoned the SDLP for SF.
In time to come hopefully you’ll look back at this and realise how utterly, utterly hypocritical you are…but you probably won’t.
IRA/SF were an utter failure. They waged a grubby terrorist campaign for over 25 years on the premise of ‘Brits Out’ and a 32 county Socialist Republic. Then when they were riddled by informers and touts and on the back foot, they surrendered, handed over their arms and signed up to the administration of British rule in Northern Ireland.
Are you for real ? 
First off, I know that creep @caulifloweredneanderthal in REAL life and was just breaking his balls - and even if I wasnt, big fucking whoop – you’re very, very sensitive. The world over knows Hume was a great man - you dont need me to hold a procession and a minute’s silence to confirm it do you? It’s an internet forum, its not real life - I wouldnt get so uptight about two mates having a pop off each other .
SF are the biggest party on the Island
Surprised the Pretend IRA put you out as the spokesman this week. You’re getting slapped around the place.
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Chief square head has spoken – another uptight whinge bag who has to chime in with absolutely nothing
Dude you used a great man’s death to come on and try score some ake Republican points like a hero, even to to point of bringing Rory McIroy into it.
Absolutely pathetic and more so when there was such support thrown your way following the death of your friend and fellow forum member.
Go shit in your hat.
The IFSC Pretend IRA branch are busy with the re-start of the League of Scotland soccer season.
Classy to the last.
Och aye
Hume was a huge figure in nationalist politics. He was absolutely vital to the peace process and was a very courageous man.
But he also made mistakes, he backed internment.
Overall the Provisionals were the protagonists for the nationalist communtiy, Hume’s anti-violence stance was admirable but it ultimately led to nothing other than a violent response from loyalists, state forces and the British military which turned young nationalists to an armed campaign. It could never have went any other way in that environment.
The real culprits of the Troubles were the British State and Irish Free State who were happy to let a problem fester and watch on, who were happy to watch nationalists be burned out of their homes, beaten off the streets, denied employment, voting rights and treated as second class citizens. Something had to give and that’s when the Provos came into being.
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The SDLP failed the nationalist Community because when the PSNI was formed they jumped in before they knew whether it would be a real police force or not.
The PSNI then took sides during the Loyalist feud, acted like just another armed group itself and stood watching while one afternoon while one side burned oit the other. News crews videoed this all happening. Afterwards the SDLP didn’t say a word about this and just sat blushing.
The southern media didn’t say a word about the incident or give one line of criticism of their precious SDLP. The incident was barely covered at all because it was too embarrassing. Despite this it was one of the most significant moments in the history of nationalist politics after the GFA.
IIRC Hume was no longer the leader of the SDLP by this stage and it’s impossible to speculate if he would have dealt with it differently.
The incident was the final straw which saw the support of the nationalist community move decisively from the SDLP to SF. Because the Southern media had deliberately avoided covering the scandal as much as possible they couldn’t explain to properly southerners why the northerners were voting the way they were, with the long term result that many people, including you dont understand the SDLP’s decline.
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How can you be so disrespectful and lacking in class to post that?
It will be interesting to see if the SDLP get a bounce now after Hume’s death.
I’m normally very negative about their prospects but this time I think they might. In the long run though Hume dying will just remind people of how shite the current generation are in comparison.
As is ever the case.
Would you mind explaining the role of the psni in the loyalist feud in a bit more detail and why this had an impact on sf/sdlp
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Next elections are a bit off tho … The North could do with a good working class party in loyalist areas and a counter to SF in nationalist politics. The two party state it has become is doing nothing - The DUP and SF dont actually represent half the people that vote for them, in an ideological sense, but both communities feel compelled to vote for them to counter the other … it’s farcical and one big circle.
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You have to laugh at a lad quoting a unionist lauding Hume for choosing politics…the same unionists who relied on gerrymandering to keep nationalists out of politics and who relied on state violence to crush the civil rights movement. Ed should grow up.
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