Pauline Mellon with a piece from The Diary of a Derry Mother. It initially featured on 5 April 2014


So it's been confirmed Martin McGuinness is to attend a state banquet hosted by the British Queen, as they say, very little shocks me!!!
Stuffed Quail anyone?
Gerry Adams in response to the news stated that
While Martin McGuinness’s involvement in President Higgins’s state visit may 'not be welcome by opponents of change', it is yet another example of Sinn Féin’s
commitment to an inclusive future based on tolerance and equality.

An opponent of change?
Opponents of change who might they be? Would these be people with long memories? People who bear a cross, people who bear scars or just people who can look beyond state banquets and see the state we are in?

Just maybe people would object to a so called socialist lording it up with the toffs as the people from his home town suffer from the highest rate of unemployment in the north. A place where many during the harsh winter months are forced to choose between heating and eating?

Could it be that the very notion of a monarchy is anti democratic? Could it be that people are disgusted that this is the same woman who decorated the paras after they murdered people on the streets of his home town in 1972?
Murdered for seeking change!
Queen Elizabeth II is the world's primary feudal landowner is. She is Queen of 32 countries, head of a Commonwealth of 54 countries in which a quarter of the world's population lives, and legal owner of about 6.6 billion acres of land, one-sixth of the earth's land surface. With a net worth of hundreds of millions of pounds, yet her lavish lifestyle is funded by taxpayers. No minimum wage there Martin!

The British queen is the 'defender of the faith' – not representative of a multi cultural, multi faith society.

I personally couldn't care less who Martin McGuinness has dinner with however I would ask that he and his party president accept that people have different opinions for different reasons. There seems to be an inherent need within Sinn Fein to label people who have a different view point from their party machine.

However I'm much too polite, but what I will say is some people are living in 'cloud cuckoo land.'

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Pauline Mellon with a piece from The Diary of a Derry Mother. It initially featured on 5 April 2014


So it's been confirmed Martin McGuinness is to attend a state banquet hosted by the British Queen, as they say, very little shocks me!!!
Stuffed Quail anyone?
Gerry Adams in response to the news stated that
While Martin McGuinness’s involvement in President Higgins’s state visit may 'not be welcome by opponents of change', it is yet another example of Sinn Féin’s
commitment to an inclusive future based on tolerance and equality.

An opponent of change?
Opponents of change who might they be? Would these be people with long memories? People who bear a cross, people who bear scars or just people who can look beyond state banquets and see the state we are in?

Just maybe people would object to a so called socialist lording it up with the toffs as the people from his home town suffer from the highest rate of unemployment in the north. A place where many during the harsh winter months are forced to choose between heating and eating?

Could it be that the very notion of a monarchy is anti democratic? Could it be that people are disgusted that this is the same woman who decorated the paras after they murdered people on the streets of his home town in 1972?
Murdered for seeking change!
Queen Elizabeth II is the world's primary feudal landowner is. She is Queen of 32 countries, head of a Commonwealth of 54 countries in which a quarter of the world's population lives, and legal owner of about 6.6 billion acres of land, one-sixth of the earth's land surface. With a net worth of hundreds of millions of pounds, yet her lavish lifestyle is funded by taxpayers. No minimum wage there Martin!

The British queen is the 'defender of the faith' – not representative of a multi cultural, multi faith society.

I personally couldn't care less who Martin McGuinness has dinner with however I would ask that he and his party president accept that people have different opinions for different reasons. There seems to be an inherent need within Sinn Fein to label people who have a different view point from their party machine.

However I'm much too polite, but what I will say is some people are living in 'cloud cuckoo land.'

14 comments:

  1. When i first heard he was attending, i thought it was symbolic and nothing more, that the real damage was done long ago and that this is entirely the way it was going to play out. However, there was something quite shocking seeing the pictures released of him dressed up like a Viceroy, toasting the Monarch.

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  2. Well said Pauline I sincerely doubt SF is interested in equality and if they are dinning with their queen is hardly an endorsement of equality.
    Then again I am biased as I am anti Monarchies English or otherwise I see no difference between so called royal families and dictators.

    Selling it to their supporters as tolerance and equality is a joke but not the funny kind not only is it undemocratic it is also exclusively sectarian but why let little issues get in the way of a new SF who toast the queen.

    The only change SF has brought about is their endorsement of British rule.
    It is beyond my understanding how anyone who believes in a republic would grovel at a bastion that has left its misrule scared all over the globe.

    As SF push for prominence or I should say the corrupted leadership they leave republicanism in shambles in their wake.
    After this latest spectacle it is almost embarrassing to claim to be a republican SF ignore the British rule and have no problem intimidating republicans.

    Opposing British rule is to reject their monarchy McGuiness shamelessly speaks for SFs twisted brand of whatever they label themselves a broken defeated republicanism that is codependent on their British masters.
    SF have well and truly departed from principled republicanism and now sell a corrupt party that continues to distance itself from the ordinary people.

    It would do voters well to remember a vote for SF is a vote for their queen and if that is change we are now worse off than in 69.

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  3. Holy jayus did you see the cut of him in his white dickybow LOL.He couldnt read the menu so said to the waiter can i just have acurry chip LOL.

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  4. Daithi D quisling $inn £eind top tout Martybroy was dressed as told,had he been told to wear a bunny outfit he would have worn one its what minions do,good good post Pauline a cara and as you rightly say how can anyone claiming to be a socialist toast the biggest scrounger in the land,no worries for her re bedroom tax nor will the welfare and benefit cuts affect her or her leeching cronies, but hey when she has minions of Martybroy,s calibre that will implement the wishes of her millionaire cabinet to the detriment of the ordinary people then one has to ask just how long will the people here allow themselves to be screwed by such people ?

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  5. All this exaggerating.. And fear inducing talk from SF.. The intimidations...

    How is this helping peace ? It didn't help when these tactics were used by the political establishment in the 50's and 60's, what is the advantage now ?

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  6. This is from last nights BBC radio 5's 'Up all night'. (starts at 6mins in)

    The whole piece last's about 26mins.. Starts off with Denis Murray, then a relative of the Birmingham pub bombs, Martin McGuinness and finishes with Ed Moloney...

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  7. Marty you joke about a bunny outfit, but how long before Sinn Fein declare that donning Easter lilies are too sectarian and rooted in the past, and that from now on they will be donning Easter bunny outfits as they are more ethical and inclusive? Think it couldn't happen?
    I’m starting to think Martins idea of a United Ireland is one island , back under the British sovereign.

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  8. Daiti D "spike " Murray has already stated that he wold like to see future commemorations such as Easter toned right down with no displays whatsoever,this ex chief of northern command and parades body member wants republicans to roll over and forget the past,his blind acceptance of the paramilitaristic displays from the loyal orders speaks volumes on just how far these quislings have been turned.

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  9. Going along with the narrative that Martin McGuiness was an agent for British intelligence. And assuming he hold his handelers everything. Wouldn't that make Mi5/6 complicite in an attempted coup d'etat (Brighton '84)...

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  10. I always laugh at the Alan Partridge description of Martin , in reference to his early-90’s look, as ‘a clown without makeup’. Hahah its so true is cruel.

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  11. daithd, last year i printed an easter lily from google image and it came out in grey tones so i am going to do that again this year (it was smaller than usual and i cut around it and i thought it looked smashing!). i always only wear lily for a few days and i live in galway and wasnt out and about much last year so no-one remarked on it. but i see a few of my old comrades a lot more frequently lately and when they ask me why is my lily different, il have some craic telling them why. i think all us independents should do our own thing with the lily symbol and let the stickies and pinheads do theirs.

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  12. anthony & carrie, id like your site to plug the following very depressing, maddening seven minute short film: my oil and gas - ireland and norway. i want to see what tpqers have to say about it. i came across it on a new website called - own our oil.

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  13. grouch, in the spirit of a rights based pluralist society , with a desire for an respectful approach that is both inclusive and forward looking to our shared future, i propose sinn fein alter their lilies.
    They could make giant ones, that are worn over the shoulders, with the persons head going through the central part, and one tip going down the chest to their naval, the other going down to the small of the back. And they should colour it all orange too. (i.e. turning the easter lilly into a sort of orange sash!).

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  14. nice one daithid, i just saw a load of them in my minds eyes, one that covered their big lying gobs would help too.

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