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Follow the thread it is simple enough. The first paragraph of Emerson is trite I then moved onto the 2nd, 3rd and 4th and commented on them. It should be easy enough to follow.
Follow the thread it is simple enough. The first paragraph of Emerson is trite I then moved onto the 2nd, 3rd and 4th and commented on them. It should be easy enough to follow.
How so, in my case that is?
The rest of your post misses the fundamental reality that PSF have sold out, accepted the Unionist veto and are now an integral part of the British administration. Ulsterisation, Criminalisation/Gombeenisation, Normalisation.
Don't be shy Pat, what's the strategy. There is one isn't there?
The difference between the dissidents and the provos is that we have an agreement now. I'm not justifying anything the provos did but they were the product of an imposed solution in partion, an failed and inflexible orange state and a British strategy for a military solution
We are in a new ball game now and the failure of the dissidents to come to terms with it makes them enemies of all the Irish people.
Emerson's point that the Sinn Fein plan hasn't worked assumes he understands what the plan was. I'm not sure they would confide in him. A lot of what he sees as part of the plan for unity was ti my eyes part of the plan to bring the armed struggle to an end.
Sinn Fein can't bring about unity on their own but we have other nationalist parties. Where is their strategy?
Why question the strategies of other parties on a thread about the PSF strategy when their representatives cannot outline a strategy. That only diverts attention from the shinner failings in this regard.
The armed militants, or 'traitors' as PSF calls them, don't have a viable strategy either. But again this thread is about the PSF unification strategy or absence thereof.
Mr Crowley
I find the question of unity itself more interesting than Shinner bashing for the sake of it. I never remember anyone from Sinn Fein claiming that they could bring about Irish unity on their own.
Some of us were encouraged when parties in the south appeared to be looking at extending their operation into the north. It is disappointing that nothing came of that. maybe they are not interested and they can see that it causes difficulties for Sinn Fein.
But at least SF have an all-Ireland presence.
They may well have an all Ireland presence but they are assimilated into the administration of British rule in the 6 on the basis of a fraudulent strategy founded on a series of deceits.
As for 26C parties, there's not a decent one among them.
The Irish people need to stand up and demand better.
i beg to differ Mr Crowley, Republican Sinn Fein have a strategy for unity, and possibly the only viable one, EIRE NUA is its name the same policy Adams and Marty discarded because they said it was a sop to loyalism.
Ruari O Bradaigh had a number of meetings with senior Unionists in the late 70`s and proposed Eire Nua to them, the unionists said other than remaining in the british union or becoming an independant state, they would accept the Eire Nua policy as the most generous solution to the situation,
this is promising and i believe it could work in Reality.
EIRE NUA http://www.rsf.ie/eirenua.htm
Full text of the article is at
Slugger O'Toole
Thought it was a funny bit of fluff from Newton Emerson, hes probably right SF are pretty rudderless on this entire thing now, am expecting an attempt to reassert their intentions next week.
"I don't think Martin McGuinness necessarily intended to kill anyone while in the IRA." factual
"Sinn Fein can't bring about unity on their own but we have other nationalist parties. Where is their strategy?"
I have yet to see any politician on the island produce any plan for uniting the people of the island.
The established strategy seems to be to tell the population of the Northeast of the island what they must do to be permitted to become Irish.
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