Sinn Fein on the Irish border: “There will be no hard border”
Leader of Sinn Fein Mary Lou McDonald tells #Marr there’s a lot of “hot air and rhetoric” surrounding the backstophttps://t.co/9DiuTY2A9j #Brexit pic.twitter.com/vQ8S3EHVYN
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) February 3, 2019
Even Sinn Fein are saying there won’t be a hard border in Ireland. The “hot air and rhetoric” on the backstop is coming from the EU…
Hot take of the day: Polly wants Sinn Fein MPs to take the oath of allegiance and block Brexit…
Lovely little endorsement for Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister by his old terrorist chum, Gerry Adams. #Marr pic.twitter.com/do5ec1AFkD
— LEAVE.EU 🇬🇧 (@LeaveEUOfficial) February 4, 2018
Returning the favour…
Asked earlier whether he would consider inviting Sinn Fein to Westminster to support a minority Labour coalition government, Corbyn refused to answer. Instead his supporters booed the questioner. It is a very valid point – given the opportunity to join the governing arrangement, who is to say Sinn Fein wouldn’t drop their long-held opposition to taking up their Westminster seats? They already accept Westminster parliamentary allowances and take part in events at Westminster (mostly with Jez). At the last election Sinn Fein candidates began to waver on the boycott, with one saying “never say never” to taking up their Westminster seats. Sinn Fein currently have 4 MPs: Mickey Brady, Pat Doherty, Paul Maskey and Francie Molloy. The Belfast Telegraph says this evening:
“If Corbyn does stand any chance, he’ll need Sinn Fein to take its seats in Westminster in order to get him across the line.”
Surely Jez couldn’t resist calling on his old Sinn Fein mates if parliament hung in the balance?
Jeremy Corbyn’s new Sinn Fein aide Jayne Fisher has close links to a string of convicted IRA terrorists, Guido can reveal. Fisher is the former head of Sinn Fein’s London office. In 2009 she was filmed singing alongside Brendan “Bik” MacFarlane, an IRA member who was jailed for a bombing and machine gun attack on a bar in Belfast which killed five civilians.
Guido has also found a photo of Fisher (below centre right) in 2012 with Owen Jones and Sinn Fein MLA Jennifer McCann (below centre left), who served ten years for shooting an RUC police officer:
In the photo below from 2014, Fisher is pictured alongside Sinn Fein’s Conor Murphy, who was sentenced to five years in prison for possession of explosives with intent to endanger life in 1982.
Fisher has not responded to several attempts to contact her. She has close links to multiple convicted terrorists, will be interesting to see if she passes the Commons security vetting process…
UPDATE: She has gone dark on social media, what kind of political operator does that? Someone with something to hide…
Maybe she will accept Guido’s pending follow request?