Brendan, would you swear allegiance to the English monarch if by luck of geography you were born in Fermanagh say?
Tory #Brexit majority of just 3 in the Commons tonight and the tax amendment passed likely to kill the White paper, so not good for Ireland north or south. The 7 Sinn Fein MP’s would be, and could still be decisive in Ireland’s interest
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They could take the revised affirmation (rather than the oath) as used by Tony Benn, Dennis Skinner, etc.
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Maybe if your party ends its abstentionist policy towards elections in the six counties, we would take your whining on this a bit more seriously
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What a petty attempt at political point scoring. You're more than welcome to stand candidates in the North to try change that. People in the North had choice in last election & voted in increased numbers for SF over parties that take seats in Westminster.
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Not sure stating reality is petty point scoring. If SF rather SF not take WM seats over potentially damaging outcomes, alright. But if SF don't wish to participate it seems hypocritical to have the SF leader regularly speaking on WM lawn offering empty condemnations of May govt.
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Your sister party
@SDLPlive stood on a ticket of attending a British parliament and were wiped out, pretty much like your party at the last election. We KEEP our commitments to the people, absentionism is not just something you say at election time and change when it suits. -
Can do summer drinks reception in Westminster but can't vote against
#Brexit but people are supposed to accept that position as acceptable. Where is the abstentionism in this event?https://twitter.com/sinnfeinireland/status/1014448935249866752 …
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Or the 3 UK Labour politicians that voted for it, ya know, didn't.
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& 2 lib dems
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In the real world Brendan... 'if' SF did take their seats and betrayed the very people who voted for them to be abstentionist... from your past experience do you still not get it?
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One political party put the future of the country before the future of the party, and has done on a number of occasions. The oldest Irish political party.
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