Sinn Fein members elected to Westminster

[Odds]

From the old French "Ire Land", meaning "land of the angry"

 

[JohnD]

the DUP were probably as shocked as everyone else to discover that some of its members were involved in law breaking.

Hahahahahahaha!

You need to stop allowing your bigotry colouring you views.

Yes, you do.

 

[Vinty]

Steriotyping as usual.

 

[Vinty]

Hahahahahahaha!



Yes, you do.

I don't think so John.
Boris has made a very serious mistake, of which he believes he will be immune from the consequences of his actions.
When it came to push against shove, Boris blinked and sold out.
The Irish are laughing at him, they and the EU have not been inconvenienced in the slightest, it is only British who are bickering over what the so called Protocol represents.
Luckily for Boris, Putin invaded Ukraine and saved Britain from a potential trade war with the EU.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

The English.

But vinty was teaching us history?

But it boils down to the Irish voting to have Irish representing them. Even if that means not attending.

 

[Roy Bloom]

The DUP and Sinn Féin are not comparable.
Sinn Féin still claims that its role in the IRA was legitimate.
They are similar to the Nazi party and its military wing the S.S.
The Nazi party did the politics and S.S. bumped off the party's rivals.
The DUP on the other hand has no military wing, the Ulster Resistance was a protest movement, (it was never outlawed) , the DUP were probably as shocked as everyone else to discover that some of its members were involved in law breaking.

You need to stop allowing your bigotry colouring you views.

So Sinn Fein accept about their connection with the IRA, so Sinn Fein were denied a political voice in UK
And the DUP deny their connection to UVF?
That makes them different?

Yes, one is honest and the other isn't

You need to stop allowing your bigotry colouring you views.

 

[Andydevon]

And what about the voters who did not and are now by default disenfranchised? You keep missing the point and Vinty tries really hard to show you but you don't want to or can't see.

 

[Roy Bloom]

Odds claimed that Protestants denied rights to Roman Catholics for 300 years.
I pointed out that Protestants in Ulster had their rights denied as well.

The Penal Laws were introduced into Ireland in the year 1695, disenfranchising nonconformists in favour of the minority established Church of Ireland, aligned with the Protestant Church of England. The laws' principal victims were members of the Catholic Church, numbering over three quarters of the population in the south, and adherents of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, a majority of the population in Ulster. These laws included:

• Education Act 1695
• Banishment Act 1697
• Registration Act 1704
• Popery Act 1704 and 1709
• Disenfranchising Act 1728

Odds claimed that Protestants denied rights to Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland for 300 years.
Your list of Acts were Act of Irish Parliament, not just NI.
So your argument is nonsense.

 

[Vinty]

Odds claimed that Protestants denied rights to Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland for 300 years.
Your list of Acts were Act of Irish Parliament, not just NI.
So your argument is nonsense.

Are you feeling ok.

 

[Roy Bloom]

it is only British who are bickering over what the so called Protocol represents.

So why are DUP refusing to participate in the Assembly?

 

[Vinty]

But vinty was teaching us history?

But it boils down to the Irish voting to have Irish representing them. Even if that means not attending.

What Irish are you referring to.

 

[Roy Bloom]

And what about the voters who did not and are now by default disenfranchised? You keep missing the point and Vinty tries really hard to show you but you don't want to or can't see.

The 100% of voters in NI who have no operating Assembly?

The Sinn Fein are oprerting their surgeries for their electorate, and carrying out their duties, except for sitting in UK Parliament.

DUP are preventing the operation of the Assembly in totality.

 

[Vinty]

So why are DUP refusing to participate in the Assembly?

Due to the N.I protocol.

 

[Roy Bloom]

Are you feeling ok.

You do know who and what the Irish Parliament was, I assume?
Your list of Acts were from that Parliament.
"The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, but on a highly restrictive franchise, similar to the unreformed House of Commons in contemporary England and Great Britain. Catholics were disqualified from sitting in the Irish parliament from 1691, even though they comprised the vast majority of the Irish population."

Irish House of Commons - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Vinty]

You do know who and what the Irish Parliament was, I assume?
Your list of Acts were from that Parliament.
"The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, but on a highly restrictive franchise, similar to the unreformed House of Commons in contemporary England and Great Britain. Catholics were disqualified from sitting in the Irish parliament from 1691, even though they comprised the vast majority of the Irish population."

Irish House of Commons - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

What is your point .