Id agree with that. The cult part of SF needs to go…
So Gerry and the gang?
To a degree yes. Gerry i think saw / sees the writing… The cult of the dead/ past is something that never sat easy with me.
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The whiff of cordite will remain for a while
Good example of that up here yesterday. Great night in West Belfast last night at Feile an Phobail which has completely replaced the 8th bonfires. Yet prominent SF members sending out tweets remembering Thomas McElwee on the 41 year anniversary of his death, which got the predictable response from Unionists.
Thats the shit they need rid of but the older cohort will be resistant to.
As the goal is to whitewash their campaign.
The campaign was the campaign. It ended nearly 25 years ago. You’d do well to let it go yourself and to encourage continued political engagement.
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Shinners would remind you of those Premier League fanbois who think nothing before 1992 should ever be mentioned.
They go mental if anybody ever mentions anything bad or embarrassing they did, oh, not just before 1994, or 1997, or 2005, or 2007, or any year, but seemingly yesterday.
But they don’t apply that standard to anybody else. They are allowed talk about other people’s pasts, while they simultaneously claim the right not to have anything in their pasts talked about, ever.
And also they are allowed sing about murderers.
I think that’s cult like behaviour alright.
But you yourself are saying you wished they’d let go of the cult status and referencing the past.
You’ve also said that’s difficult because of the old guard.
It’s difficult because the goal is to legitimise it in the eyes of the public. That trumps a United Ireland as it automatically makes a UI harder.
Bizarre attempt at politics washing from one of the murderers*…
The King has a serious horn for Michelle
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There’s an Italian up in Armagh/Tyrone who’s very conflicted looking at that 
The few lbs less make a serious difference to her. If she winks at him he’ll sign the lot over in the morning.
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Michelle O’Kneel
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Never thought I’d see the day when the torch of hardcore republicanism was passed from Sinn Fein to Jedward and Buff Egan.
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Jedward and Buff are driven demented by something going on in another country. You’d swear they were British themselves the eejits.
Are these figures true?
The party claims this is a “fairer approach than that being considered by government” — which is to increase the entry point at which workers begin to pay the higher rate of income tax. “With only 23 per cent of earners reaching the higher rate, 77 per cent of earners would not benefit from this change at all,” Sinn Fein says.
It looks like the neo liberal/ corporate capitalism policy of FFG have been their own undoing.
The new working class that will deliver SF to government are highly educated 24-35 year olds who have been priced out if their own country…
'Critically, however, higher education no longer means higher income. In the industrial societies of the past, third-level education automatically correlated with earning the highest incomes, and almost certainly guaranteed home ownership and wealth accumulation. It was the ticket to an aspirational middle-class lifestyle.
This is no longer the case.’
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