Martin McGuinness

@anc wrote:

It is a melting pot – ready to boil over! 8)

What a shallow person it is that makes light of such a serious subject the way you do.

For years, in the name of their cause, McGuinness and Adams have got away with murdering innocent people.

If there was any justice the pair of them would suffer a slow, painful death.

Yes Mrs T, huge compromises have been made by many.. Right up to and including the Queen as illustrated yesterday.
I guess what irritates me is the petty approach to last year from McGuinness, and how if he professes to be an All Ireland, consensus politician, he didn’t respect the wishes of the vast majority of the people of Ireland and welcome the visit of the Queen there and then. No, instead he chooses to meet and greet on what is increasingly looking to be his own patch, a year later, north of the border (yet the very border that his movement supposedly continues to dispute).
It is becoming increasingly evident that this dispute is for the benefit of the great, unwashed Sinn Feiners down south who in their ignorance still see Britain as the enemy. After much blood spilling they have their seats and pensions in the north. They are the very establishment they set out to topple, not because it was unfair, a popular misconception of the Nationalist myth, no, because it was not THEM.
Now it is.
The likes of McGuinness know this all too well and are ploughing an anti establishment furrow down south. An angry, austere southern Ireland is now perfectly fertile ground for regression politics. As illustrated last year.
Be under no illusions here. This is a man and a movement that cares nothing or never has cared for Ireland or it’s global image, but only what it can get out of a blinkered, selective and xenophobic Nationalist agenda. Get for itself down south what it has reaped the rewards of up north. In this case, well paid political position and media coverage. In days gone by – the spoils of the Northern Bank robbery or the spoils of sympathy for hunger strikes and the martyrdom of Bobby Sands.
Makes one wonder.
And some times despair.
Despite the pseudo glow of this new peaceful dawn.
One trembles at the thought of what may happen when all of the trappings of this goodwill well begin to dry up.

Queen Elizabeth showed us humanity and dignity yesterday.
McGuinness, you will notice, showed very little of anything.

I’m not sure sure how such a creature as this, with blood on his hands, ended up sitting in a governing assembly as opposed to a jail cell but there you go.
I guess there are some things you have to swallow for the greater good, for that you have to admire the Queen.

It does make me wonder if Prince Phillip was asked to do this. His fondness for Mountbatten is well known so I can guess what his answer would’ve been.

Personally the sight of the man makes my skin crawl

@desmondy wrote:

I’m not sure sure how such a creature as this, with blood on his hands, ended up sitting in a governing assembly as opposed to a jail cell but there you go.
I guess there are some things you have to swallow for the greater good, for that you have to admire the Queen.

It does make me wonder if Prince Phillip was asked to do this. His fondness for Mountbatten is well known so I can guess what his answer would’ve been.

Personally the sight of the man makes my skin crawl

Very well said.
I couldn’t agree more.
Imagine how I (and many others) felt when he ran in last years Irish Presidential election, receiving almost a quarter of a million first preference votes in the process?
Sometimes things just defeat me.