UDAWINNER wrote: » the apparent homophobe showing his true colours:)https://twitter.com/MarkAgitprop/status/1334617214134136833 btw it should be remembered that leo the leak, coveney and numerous other tds were originally against SSM before it became popular , does that make them homophobes I wonder
Chips Lovell wrote: » Whatever about his questionable statements on Twitter, his spelling alone is a resigning matter. Jesus. My eyes.
smurgen wrote: » Interesting tweet. And contrasts sharply with Varadkar's homophobic views back then. He done gay people a massive disservice.https://twitter.com/TheDukeLuke/status/1333012457321848832?s=19
golfball37 wrote: » Belfast has spoken I’d say
walshb wrote: » Having views and opinions on serious and complex and contentious and polarising issues is absolutely fine, once decorum and respect is shown.. In other words, there’s a way to do things.. Stanley’s two tweets had not an ounce of decency or decorum.. Both were quite poor.. The lad should be given the heave ho! There is serious defense desperation on this thread.. Guys, the lad had to close his social media down..
Ireland2020 wrote: » SF on the membrane
FrancieBrady wrote: » He didn't 'have' to do anything. He choose to as people where trawling it looking for tweets that caused no issue when first written but are fodder for the faux woke crusade currently taking place. T They'll get their man is my view. Politicians are afraid to stand up to this when it happens. I hope Stanley does challenge it and stands on his record of defending LGBT rights when others were ignoring or denying them.
walshb wrote: » Francie, I have absolutely no doubt that if this was a FG/FF politician you and your crew would be roaring abuse for dismissal.. And also, if it was a shinner in Leo’s leak position or in McEntee position, to and your crew would be defending to the hilt Your blind obsessive defence does SF no good. It simply paints the support for them to the delusional You know, it’s ok at times to call out wrongs on a party or organization that you overall support..
expectationlost wrote: » https://twitter.com/Ballymagash_T/status/1334509803339649035 cripes
Kermit.de.frog wrote: » This. Having considered the matter carefully our public representatives should be able to read and write with at least a rudimentary level of proficiency.Looks very bad on SF that this man is the cream of their crop.
FrancieBrady wrote: » Find me a post where I have looked for anyone's dismissal bar Hogan. I have said his tweet on Kilmichael and Narrow Water was insensitive and therefore it was right to delete it and apologise for the insensitive nature of it. I do think we need to have a conversation as an island on 'how we remember' and the 'cancel' culture around 'only some' remembering/celebrating is wrong, going forward. Sveral n here have had difficulty addressing that here so far. The trawling of the man's past to find anything at all to try and 'cancel him' (isn't this the woke term for it) is obscene in my book, and I hope he stands up to it, but doubt he will because politics is prone to these crusades of the righteous. As I said to last night, just google and you will find many many instance across parties of members tweeting stuff that they delete.
rdwight wrote: » The worst that'll happen is he resign as chairman of PAC. In all fairness, if SF leadership could brazen taking selfies at a tri-local performative funeral during a pandemic I don't Brian has too much to worry about.
Chips Lovell wrote: » In fairness to Sinn Fein, they have come a long way in a short space of time. At they are only disappearing people on social media these days.
Chips Lovell wrote: » In fairness to Sinn Fein, they have come a long way in short space of time. At they are only disappearing people on social media these days.
smurgen wrote: » This is where I differ. One is a tweet the other is a law that effected the lives of gay people. Varadkar voted against it.
walshb wrote: » Two different issues.... You are missing the point..... Decorum and respect and decency during public discourse is to be welcomed, not criticized...
Hamsterchops wrote: » Well yes, they have come a long way from disappearing people, but they also need to stop having massive IRA funerals and tweeting about IRA attacks, remember we the Kingsmill debacle, I think that fella had to resign?
FrancieBrady wrote: » I would not accuse anybody coming out with what you are saying of hypocrisy, if lack of decorum and respect were treated the same across the political divides. As I keep telling you, just google the amount of tweets across parties that have been deleted, then d a search on ones that haven't been that fail your standards. Let's not pretend here, this is a persecution in order to get a scalp orchestrated by trawling somebody's past.Quit with the faux 'higher or certain principles' stuff. We know what this is.
blanch152 wrote: » He was welcomed back into the party and reselected as a candidate. They look after their own, as the welcome home party for the McCabe killers showed.
FrancieBrady wrote: » Those events happened nearly 50 years ago, only 50 to go until the State is celebrating it like they officially celebrate Kilmichael, without a hint of irony or hypocrisy of course.
rdwight wrote: » What this is is the only example anybody has so far produced of one Oireachtas member referring to the sexual life of another member. And it just happens to be about one of the few gay politicians.
Nobotty wrote: » Narrowwater or Enniskillen or Warrington will never get a state celebration The reason Kilmichael does is because the state can trace its founding back to events like it Theres no state yet that can be traced back to narrowwater etc and even when there is a UI,you can be guaranteed that the new State won't be celebrating what a huge unionist tradition regard as atrocities Imagine celebrating mountbattens death while William is on the throne Let's be realistic
hatrickpatrick wrote: » What part of "The RUC and British Army started this conflict, not the IRA" is lost on you? You claim to know about how the Troubles started and yet you continue to deny that the IRA was a reaction to something.
