Partitionist Quiet at Provocative March

national | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis Wednesday July 13, 2005 16:43 by The Singing Nun

Southern Politicians Silent on Ardoyne Havoc

Southern politicians and SP/SWP partitionists have failed to condemn a provocative Orange march through Ardoyne and heavy-handed PSNI actions.

Again we see that it is not just 29 February that habitually drops from our calendar, but 12 July as well, with remarkably little reaction in the 26 Counties to last night's violence in the Short Strand.

Where is the theatrics from Joe Higgins, SP TD, whop claims to be anti-imperialist when it comes to battles fought three thousand miles away but has no interest in the North? Where the reaction from former republican activist Pat Rabbitte, or from the normally reactionary SWP, or from any of ther other parties down here?

As Gerry Adams and Gerry Kelly physically wrestled petrol bombs off youths who were attacked by the PSNI, and both were themselves attacked by the water cannons, where the outrage at attacks on democratically elected and, might I add, very brave public reps who had the courage of their convictions and tried to calm things down?

Pathetic, small-minded, myopic, partitionist, politically craven SP/SWPers prefer to criticise SF than attack British imperialism in actions. There are currently more British troops in the Six Counties (17,000) than in Iraq, so why not do something about it?