The decline of SF?

Sinn Fein are populist

Also: Sinn Fein are not populist.

Confused? Stay tuned for more.

Ah here

Nobody wants to pay more tax and cerrainly not death duties

The policies purpose would be a short lived hole plugger in the costing of a manifesto,never to see the statute books but would it alienate a lot of people,yes

I see Mary lou has upped the anti against her anti imigrant vote eating parasites by highlighting death threats from some of their followers as if she was the only one getting them

She made a point of saying they were trying to alienate SF's core vote and in doing so it has helped to be sticking the Ireland for the Irish crowd with the looney assasin label

This should win back a lot of supporters

The problem with being populist is that sooner or later you get found out. You can only swing so many times before you catch something fatal.

That is where SF are now.

Your own point was a 'comparison' Clo.

You might like to think it wasn't but to call them incompetent while blithely ignoring actual incompetence by parties actually implementing policy, rubbishes the integrity and credibility of anything you have to say.

It is not surprising Mary Lou McD on her social media posts yesterday spoke at length about the threat against her : only this morning did I hear on another news channel that she was not the only one threatened : Drew Harris was as well for example. Policemen on this island are well used to having a threat made against them by an individual, unfortunately. All threats now or in the past should be condemned.

All threats against all individuals were and are wrong. There was an alternative.

Nonsense.

MLMD supports a terrorist campaign that issued numerous death threats against politicians and carried them out. The targets ranged from a FG protestant politician to the UK's Mountbatten where they actually achieved their threat and to others such as various Taoisigh and Prime Ministers where they didn't.

MLMD's deputy leader believes that these death threats were necessary and MLMD hasn't demurred. I am sure that the person making the death threats against MLMD also believes his death threats are necessary as do his supporters.

We can therefore divide this discussion into two camps, those who believe death threats against politicians are wrong, full stop and those who nauseatingly and hypocritically consider some death threats against politicians to be ok. I stand with the former, it appears that yourself and MLMD stand with the latter.

Sickening really.
As I said, every politician on these islands stands behind the violence, threats and bloodshed they thought was necessary to achieve certain outcomes or aims.

You as usual want it everyway.

MLMD has not harmed or threatened anyone, and is fully signed up to democratic means. Same as the leaders of parties that commemorate and celebrate violence and bloodshed and 'terrorism' in this state, not to mention our neighbours.

MLMD is not one of your selective victims, this we know. Your hypocrisy is on show again.

Only certain politicians stand behind death threats to other politicians. MLMD has no problem with the death threats to Margaret Thatcher, she has no problem with the death sentence carried out on Billy Fox following his death threat. Along with the rest of her party, that puts her in a different category to normal politicians.

I am leaving it there, it is plain to see.

Michael Collins and all those other people from over 100 years ago are not in politics now, and are many generations ago. Different times. Just as the American wild west was different times.

Some of the people who were heavily involved a certain party during the troubles, and who had no trouble or qualms with death threats and worse to Thatcher, Tebbit, Neave, Fox, Bradford, Edgar Graham etc are still heavily involved in the same party now. And to this day say there was "no alternative." That is why I agree with :

That is all not just within living memory but within the same careers of many people.

I said I am of the opinion all threats now or in the past should be condemned.

Anyway I am leaving it there too.

Ah here now,there are better ways to allow for the tacit acceptance amongst some (but far from all) nationalists of the provisional IRA campaign of the 70s 80s and 90's and why it happened up north than comparing it with present day parties adoration of the 1916 rising

The latter was over a 100 years ago,no victims of it are alive.Women had no vote,there was no tv or radio beaming it into homes

The heroes involved managed to win independence albeit blighted by a still unresolved gerrymandered partition

Regardless,it's all about the Belfast leadership getting that UI referendum now to set the course for resolving the problem

It's unfortunate the imposter tri colour usurper anti immigrant gurriers have managed to canibalise the protest vote away from Sinn Féin but this will come back,the party review will have strategised a way to retrieve it by now

They are about 18 months behind what their typical voter is thinking, whoever is doing their PR or advising them of policy should get the road.

There's little to no wide demand for the type of nonsense the protesters at Coolock are demanding.