Fun and games attend Lynn Boylan, the Sinn Féin MEP for Dublin who complained that she was unable to use the Irish language in the European Parliament. Told that an interpreter was available, she had to admit that she could not in fact speak Irish. But rather more seriously, Sinn Féin's abstention on Mid Ulster District Council has allowed a planning application by a company in the F-35 supply chain to Israel.
They are never asked about their financial ties to the arms industry, but whenever our own well-paid or well-pensioned top brass insist that for the twenty-second highest population in the world, the sixth highest military spending was still not enough for those generous benefactors, then they should at least be reminded, and the audience informed, that in the financial year 2024-25, the Government wrote off £6.6 billion of public money, with £1.6 billion of that being mismanagement and cancelled projects at the Ministry of Defence for which every other Department of State has been ordered to make yet further cuts.
And they should be confronted with the complicity in the scandal of the nuclear test veterans of everyone who had risen above a certain level, military or civilian and including all Ministers, at the Ministry of Defence or its predecessors since 1952. Shock is in order. Awe is not.
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