Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Saturday 25 September 2010
What Are We Paying For?
Once upon a time, we engineered a split from Sinn Féin, and it proceeded to hang the IRA. Sinn Féin never tired of pointing out that Fianna Fáil was "a British proxy", and only stopped doing so on itself becoming one in recent years. Fianna Fáil fulfilled its responsibilities as our proxy, producing the corpses of IRA men to prove it. When will Sinn Féin? Irish politics can be brutal. No one needs to tell them that. Do they?
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