Ireland’s great weakness is Sinn Féin

IT IS little wonder that the British Secretary of State, Owen Patterson, is telling unionists that there is nothing for them to fear in having Martin McGuinness as First Minister.

Why should unionists fear Martin McGuinness when he has won his authority on the same violence that made the British Empire “great”?

It is little wonder either that the Sinn Féin push in the Republic is being fulsomely followed by BBC NI, giving Sinn Féin opportunities to tell their story, when these people know that Ireland’s weakness is Sinn Féin.

What other party is going to tumble Ireland back into the UK quicker than Sinn Féin with its history of pursuing Ireland’s empirical “greatness” founded on the gun?

It is also little wonder that the largest MI5 HQ outside London is near Belfast, ostensibly to deal with republican dissidents, which the SDLP argue that they’re just not doing.

Anybody who knows their history knows that the UK took a stern hit on Good Friday 1998, compromising its sovereignty.

The Good Friday Agreement broke the rules of nations. Could John Hume, the SDLP, and peace then be the real enemies of the British? Tony Blair said as much in his autobiography, giving no credit to the SDLP for authoring the agreement.

So why big up Sinn Féin? Is it because Sinn Féin failed at everything it ever did?

John O’Connell

Derry