Bob McCartney talks balls

I was watching 'The Politics Show' on BBC1 earlier; it was an hour-long special on Norn Iron, seeing as we are off to vote early and vote often on Wednesday.

The first part of the programme had representatives from the Ulster Unionists and the DUP, and the one-man show that is Bob fucking McCartney QC, the biggest pain in the hole to walk this earth since David Beckham.

Bob was giving both the UUP and the DUP a strict telling off about having/intending to share power with Sinn Féin, and then he came off with the statement that 'both parties want to go into government with those who murdered Protestants and destroyed their property'.

To listen to McCartney, and other unionists, you would think that the whole war here was just an exercise in republican brutality, and that unionists sat back and suffered in silence. From 1987 onwards, loyalist paramilitaries slaughted more people than republicans, and continued to wipe out all round them after the ceasefires were called. The silence from the unionist parties was deafening; some of them such as that tone-deaf preacher Willie McCrea chose to share public platforms with the likes of King Rat. More tellingly, the unionist parties also said absolutely fuck all about the state murder of scores of people when the report into collusion was published a few weeks back. And these people expect the electorate to believe that they are democrats? What chance of them sharing power with nationalists when they shout each other down in a television studio?

The very fact that Bob has to stand in six constitutencies simultaneously for his fUKUP party speaks volumes of his political irrelevance. He also conveniently forgot to enlighten us as to what his alternative to devolved government is. Another 4 years of being under the thumb of Hain and his other blow-in fuckwits from Blighty? Stick that one up your bangle, Bob.

RSF Rent A Protest

I had the misfortune of hearing the first ten minutes of the Pat Kenny Show after the news on RTÉ this morning and, wouldn't you know it, the topic was about THAT match at Croke tomorrow. The vice-president of Republican Sinn Féin, Des Dalton (who sounds like a Wild West outlaw) was on complaining about the match and how it was a disgrace that God Save The Queen will be played, blah, blah, blah.

Does this prick not have anything else to worry about? The health service is a shambles, high politics is corrupt as it's ever been, you need to be Richard Branson to buy a house and all RSF can do is moan at the fact that a song about a German granny and her in-bred offspring will on the loudspeaker at Croker. Obviously RSF are very adept at reading the pulse of the nation.

Cast your mind back about 18 months or so to the Love Ulster rally in Dublin. While I have no truck with the right-wing, drug dealing, pimping, racist loyalist scum that wrap themselves in a Union Flag (and I would personally love to see Willie Frazer in a wooden suit), the blame for the riots on that day lies solely with RSF and their Celtic jersey-wearing hangers on. If they, and the media (that includes the wankers that work at the Sunday Indo) had paid no attention to the Love Ulster rally whatsoever then we wouldn't have had a pitch battle riot in the nation's capital and RSF could have had the moral high ground. But no, they had to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and hand Frazer and his sectarian fuckwits the kind of publicity coup they could only dream of. RSF let this country down badly that day, and now they're planning to do the same with 25,000 England Rugby fans tomorrow. I have no doubt that our guests will be well behaved and will expect to be treated in the same manner as Irish fans are abroad, and that includes playing their national anthem. While the rest of Ireland is moving on, RSF still think it's 1916.

So please Des, do us all a favour, and fuck up.