Great to see. Sinn Féin shows it’s a mature party and the DUP are shown for the fools they are.
I’m often highly critical of Sinn Féin but this is a nice gesture on their part.
I’m confused as to whether she’ll swear allegiance to the king since it’s being asked of the whole public.
Curious as this, I understand, is the reason SF refuse to take their seats in Westminster.
Sound thinking from Charles. How do we make sure the place isn’t bombed by bank robbing terrorists? Invite Michelle!!!
Lads it’s simple. There is a huge amount of people on this island who feel like they are British not Irish. We can’t just ignore them. If we want unification we all need to seriously reflect on if we are going to accept that these people need to be seen and heard. Ireland now will not be the same and rightly so.
>Every class in society save royalty, and especially British royalty, has through some of its members contributed something to the elevation of the race. But neither in science, nor in art, nor in literature, nor in exploration, nor in mechanical invention, nor in humanising of laws, nor in any sphere of human activity has a representative of British royalty helped forward the moral, intellectual or material improvement of mankind. But that royal family has opposed every forward move, fought every reform, persecuted every patriot, and intrigued against every good cause. Slandering every friend of the people, it has befriended every oppressor. Eulogised today by misguided clerics, it has been notorious in history for the revolting nature of its crimes. Murder, treachery, adultery, incest, theft, perjury – every crime known to man has been committed by some one or other of the race of monarchs from whom King George is proud to trace his descent.
>All these parading royalties, all this insolent aristocracy, all these grovelling, dirt-eating capitalist traitors, all these are but signs of disease in any social state – diseases which a royal visit brings to a head and spews in all its nastiness before our horrified eyes.
>Their workshops, their lands, their mills, their factories, their ships, their railways must be voted into our hands who alone use them, public ownership must take the place of capitalist ownership, social democracy replace political and social inequality, the sovereignty of labour must supersede and destroy the sovereignty of birth and the monarchy of capitalism.
No Irish Republican should ever attend or dignify a coronation of a King or Queen.
Fucking love it. Mature, forward looking politics and sticking it to the DUP at the same time. Couldn’t be better.
The only way to understand it is that of a notable Irish politician attending the inauguration of a head of state of a country that we have much business with, nothing more nor less. People don’t always have to act consistently in line with their values or ideology, this kind of stuff happens all the time in diplomacy, one moment two national leaders are shaking hands, the next they’re declaring war on each other. Obeying these social niceties helps lubricate the cogs of diplomatic function.
>how to understand Michelle O’Neill’s decision to attend King Charles’s big day
She was invited, she’s the head representative of Northern Ireland’s parliament, she’s representing the people of the North even if she personally is against the institution of monarchy
It’s hardly Sanskrit
It’s really not as deep as people are making out for her. She wants to go to the massive expensive party in London and play at being a celebrity for a day and she will justify it however is most convenient.
I don’t have a problem with them attending. I also don’t have a problem with people disagreeing with it.
TLDR it’s a PR stunt to improve relations, a good one at that
Shame they couldn’t have gone over there and voted against brexit when they had the chance.
It’s pretty easy to understand isn’t it? She’s playing at diplomacy and with all her talk about being a “First Minister for all” she had to go or be seen as a hypocrite.
It’s very welcome of course and is I suppose helpful in terms of reconciliation, until the next Sinn Féin provo commemoration when it’s all undone.
Collecting the kings shilling is half the funding the party elite gets. Denis Donaldson knew that.
I couldn’t give two shits what she does, Michael D however should not be going. Send the ambassador in his place.
Its a sham/scam, & it’s not rocket science or hard to understand, it’s political point scoring, because if they were serious they’d go to Westminster & represent Unionist Bastards, something that would eventually show they represent the people of Northern Ireland, though I will give it to them, it’s a good move.
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Great to see. Sinn Féin shows it’s a mature party and the DUP are shown for the fools they are.
I’m often highly critical of Sinn Féin but this is a nice gesture on their part.
I’m confused as to whether she’ll swear allegiance to the king since it’s being asked of the whole public.
Curious as this, I understand, is the reason SF refuse to take their seats in Westminster.
Sound thinking from Charles. How do we make sure the place isn’t bombed by bank robbing terrorists? Invite Michelle!!!
Lads it’s simple. There is a huge amount of people on this island who feel like they are British not Irish. We can’t just ignore them. If we want unification we all need to seriously reflect on if we are going to accept that these people need to be seen and heard. Ireland now will not be the same and rightly so.
>Every class in society save royalty, and especially British royalty, has through some of its members contributed something to the elevation of the race. But neither in science, nor in art, nor in literature, nor in exploration, nor in mechanical invention, nor in humanising of laws, nor in any sphere of human activity has a representative of British royalty helped forward the moral, intellectual or material improvement of mankind. But that royal family has opposed every forward move, fought every reform, persecuted every patriot, and intrigued against every good cause. Slandering every friend of the people, it has befriended every oppressor. Eulogised today by misguided clerics, it has been notorious in history for the revolting nature of its crimes. Murder, treachery, adultery, incest, theft, perjury – every crime known to man has been committed by some one or other of the race of monarchs from whom King George is proud to trace his descent.
>All these parading royalties, all this insolent aristocracy, all these grovelling, dirt-eating capitalist traitors, all these are but signs of disease in any social state – diseases which a royal visit brings to a head and spews in all its nastiness before our horrified eyes.
>Their workshops, their lands, their mills, their factories, their ships, their railways must be voted into our hands who alone use them, public ownership must take the place of capitalist ownership, social democracy replace political and social inequality, the sovereignty of labour must supersede and destroy the sovereignty of birth and the monarchy of capitalism.
No Irish Republican should ever attend or dignify a coronation of a King or Queen.
Fucking love it. Mature, forward looking politics and sticking it to the DUP at the same time. Couldn’t be better.
The only way to understand it is that of a notable Irish politician attending the inauguration of a head of state of a country that we have much business with, nothing more nor less. People don’t always have to act consistently in line with their values or ideology, this kind of stuff happens all the time in diplomacy, one moment two national leaders are shaking hands, the next they’re declaring war on each other. Obeying these social niceties helps lubricate the cogs of diplomatic function.
>how to understand Michelle O’Neill’s decision to attend King Charles’s big day
She was invited, she’s the head representative of Northern Ireland’s parliament, she’s representing the people of the North even if she personally is against the institution of monarchy
It’s hardly Sanskrit
It’s really not as deep as people are making out for her. She wants to go to the massive expensive party in London and play at being a celebrity for a day and she will justify it however is most convenient.
I don’t have a problem with them attending. I also don’t have a problem with people disagreeing with it.
TLDR it’s a PR stunt to improve relations, a good one at that
Shame they couldn’t have gone over there and voted against brexit when they had the chance.
It’s pretty easy to understand isn’t it? She’s playing at diplomacy and with all her talk about being a “First Minister for all” she had to go or be seen as a hypocrite.
It’s very welcome of course and is I suppose helpful in terms of reconciliation, until the next Sinn Féin provo commemoration when it’s all undone.
Collecting the kings shilling is half the funding the party elite gets. Denis Donaldson knew that.
I couldn’t give two shits what she does, Michael D however should not be going. Send the ambassador in his place.
Its a sham/scam, & it’s not rocket science or hard to understand, it’s political point scoring, because if they were serious they’d go to Westminster & represent Unionist Bastards, something that would eventually show they represent the people of Northern Ireland, though I will give it to them, it’s a good move.