economic vindication of Sinn Féin peace strategy

[Cantdecide]

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[pogo]

This thread strikes me as a bit like my asking for everyone's congratulations for not having beaten my wife recently.

Of course, Sf's current strategy of not destroying NI's economy is an improvement on their previous strategy of destroying it.

But would that great SF icon Bobby Sands have approved? He was after all imprisoned for attempting to fire bomb an economic target, a furniture warehouse.

Perhaps Factual could explain why destroying other people's property and livelihoods was praiseworthy then, but not now.

[iceman]

I was going to post something but some of you aint worth it.

[iceman]

This thread strikes me as a bit like my asking for everyone's congratulations for not having beaten my wife recently.

Of course, Sf's current strategy of not destroying NI's economy is an improvement on their previous strategy of destroying it.

But would that great SF icon Bobby Sands have approved? He was after all imprisoned for attempting to fire bomb an economic target, a furniture warehouse.

Perhaps Factual could explain why destroying other people's property and livelihoods was praiseworthy then, but not now.

Times where different then compaired to now and what happened in the past has made it better for the future. Pogo and others on here stop fishing factual you are well aware of these answers and you are all certainly not stupid i think.

[Cael]

I was going to post something but some of you aint worth it.

Not being worth having PSF drivel spewed on us would be a blissful state to be in. If only!

[iceman]

I was going to post something but some of you aint worth it.

Not being worth having PSF drivel spewed on us would be a blissful state to be in. If only!

Cael you are part of the reason people do not like Republicans. I for one has respect for all Republicans but you are just a fool.

[pogo]

Perhaps Factual could explain why destroying other people's property and livelihoods was praiseworthy then, but not now.

Times where different then compaired to now and what happened in the past has made it better for the future. Pogo and others on here stop fishing factual you are well aware of these answers and you are all certainly not stupid i think.

I don't really think they were different.

In the GFA, in essence SF accepted what had been on the table some 20 years earlier, at Sunningdale.

The IRA were fighting for something that had already freely been offerred without duress in 1973, and SF's reluctant acceptance of powersharing within a partitionist state, renders the whole armed campaign 1973-97 retroactively nihilistic and futile.

Times have changed in the sense that present day SF, as opposed to the SF circa Bobby Sands, no longer unconditionally demand a United Ireland.

It is SF that has changed, and not the constitutional position of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom.

[newbie12]

Good news about the jobs. Even better news to see that SFers are copping on to thge fact that private investment can help the economy and hence ordinary people. Perhaps if they extend this realism to their policies in the next election they'll do a little better.

[scarface]

http://www.rte.ie/business/2007/0606/nijobs.html

400 high quality private setor IT service jobs were created today in an £18m investment by Fujitsu Services - in Derry and Belfast.

The company will establish a managed IT services centre for Fujitsu's European customer base at Timber Quay in Derry, creating 328 new jobs. A further 74 jobs are to be created at the company's existing facilities in Belfast.

Excellent news for the people of Derry and a great vindication of the peace strategy of Sinn Féin.

how will this help end partition? you people are helping the 6 county economy therefore solidifying partition

[Cael]

I was going to post something but some of you aint worth it.

Not being worth having PSF drivel spewed on us would be a blissful state to be in. If only!

Cael you are part of the reason people do not like Republicans. I for one has respect for all Republicans but you are just a fool.

Some people dont like Republicans because we stand for the ending of Brit misrule in Ireland. Some people dont like PSF because they are paid Crown Officials and ultimately stand for nothing - as they showed, yet again, when they changed their excuse for an economic policy half way through an election when they thought they could climb into bed with Fianna Fáil.