Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

"Answer a question with a question. Standard stuff.' Given that exactly what you did to me the irony of this is hilarious. Either stop crying and answer my question or stop replying to me my posts.

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Nothing I can do to prove it.

You believe whatever you want whatever difference it makes to you. Would it change the points made if I was really a white bearded old man in the Antrim hills?

I suspect a few here are other party members but I really couldn’t care less if they are or not, it doesn’t give their posts any more gravitas or importance. I just argue my position.

Thread is not about me either so that’s all I am saying. If you have an issue contact a mod

THis is what you posted

Again, another southern expert who is going to go on a tour of Northern ireland telling all the nationalists and catholics that sinn fein did absolutely nothing to help them.

Who was trying to help them up there during the 70s and 80s then? DUP? The British Government

I already answered the comment about "southern expert". That backfired

In terms of who was trying to help people in Northern Ireland? Loads of people. Mostly people in Northern Ireland and in the Republic. The likes of John Hume and other.

Do you think killing nationalist, brutal beating and knee capping was helping them? because I certainly don't and I don't expect you do.

How exactly did blowing up a couple of children shopping in a Boots help the Catholic/nationalists community?

How successful is the online supporters group going these days? 😂

Anyway

But don't worry, Mary Lou says it is accounted for now

We were getting nearly one a week breaking SIPO regs. from government parties. The Taoiseach is currently on his 4th attempt to tell the truth about donations to him and is under investigation.

The funny thing is the indictment of the law, tax and regulatory authorities @Clo-Clo is making if he knows SF have committed criminal offences and they have done nothing about it.

My post was about SF and how there is nothing exceptional about their issues in comparison to others. And how you are indicting the Gardai, Revenue and SIPO.

Why haven’t SF been charged with criminal offences if you, a random person, can allege they have committed them?

Information on Sinn Fein on a Sinn Fein thread is not relevant. That's a new angle to shut down the conversation on anything negative on Sinn Fein.

To finish this, Sinn Fein are the richest party in Ireland, the have a huge property portfolio. Both of which have been reported for year

When they do provide information on these they get caught out constantly and the "opp's we didn't know" response comes back and "oh we will hide fix that next time"

Now the question is how did a party with so little support either side of the border suddenly build up this empire? People can only guess. But the PSNI and the Gardai spent years trying to identify the criminal gains the PIRA had built up but never really uncovered them. This included a huge property portfolio that the PIRA managed to build up while seemingly protecting the nationalist community.

why they needed a property portfolio as an army is also up for discussion? did having property in Spain help the people of Northern Ireland?

Of course for the richest party and the so called defenders of "da working man" it is strange to see that Sinn Fein have a habit of not actually paying their bills.

Why would a rich party not pay their bills? also are these companies afraid to ask for the money? I don't know. Maybe the online supporters could get some feedback on why Sinn Fein refuse to pay bills

Anyway we can only speculate. Leave you guys to that

"Loads of people"? Would that include the British Government?

Well, they obviously didn't mind too much given the overwhelming support Sinn Fein have in the North and in nationalist communities. Explain that one to me and tell me how they are wrong to be supporting Sinn Fein.

It helped bring about equal treatment in the North for catholics and stopped them getting murdered by the British army.

If there is to be a coalition government MLMD is laying out very clearly that a UI Plan will be a major policy plank of any programme for government on News At One.

Unfortunately, as pointed out this ^^ doesn't meet the reality test.

1988, 10 years before the GFA they had 11% and one MP.

It was those numbers (they continued to grow up to 1998) that allowed Hume to insist that SF be at the table in any peace negotiations. Their omission was the mistake he made with the disastrous Sunningdale Agreement which only made the situation worse and more intractable.

As the saying goes, you can have your opinion, you can't have the facts.

The focus on a United Ireland will turn many right off TBH as they have more on their minds these days. The SF focus should be on sorting out the ROI first and foremost, and THEN move on to discussions about a UI.

But I'll give the Northern crowd their day in the sun in the Assembly and congrats to Michelle O'Neill. However I haven't seen SF able to deliver all that much up North. Maybe they are waiting for a UI to sort it all out for them!

As you can see, I am not and never will be a SF supporter, but I haven't got any animosity towards them. I just wish they would stop speaking out of both sides of their mouths.

Ah go on, you tell me first. I'll bow to your superior knowledge of all things SF. But I suspect your answer will be intransigent DUP etc. OK that's probably true, but look they have to change their tune now to focus on making NI the best place EVAH for its populace, in order to prevent or substantially delay any talk/benefit of a UI.

I think that would be a great thing.

Bye now. No point. You know exactly what I'm talking about.

Talk about clutching at staws. I'm sure certain one or two of those 1.8m are under 18 and not allowed vote as by the way. As mentioned, they had significant support before the ceasefire. They are the most popular party in the North, and by a significant distance as well.

just an FYI, Ireland is full of republicans who have nothing to do with Sinn Fein.

Shows a total lack of understanding of Irish history.