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STARMER AND THE BOMBER

Keir Starmer and Martina Anderson

There was one thing that symbolised Jeremy Corbyn for many right-minded Brits.  It was his long association with both the IRA and its political wing Sinn Fein.  As fellow Marxists with a shared hatred of Britain, Corbyn and the IRA were a match made in ideological Heaven.  Their association was no secret and when Martin McGuinness died in 2017, Corbyn paid warm tribute to his old comrade.  Corbyn was Labour leader at that time and naturally he provoked a furious backlash from veterans and relatives of IRA victims.

Corbyn's successor has gone to great lengths to distance himself from his predecessor, ejecting him permanently from the party earlier this year.  However, what the British public don't know is that Keir Starmer himself also has an ongoing relationship with the Marxists of Sinn Fein-IRA.

When Starmer won the Labour leadership election in 2020, one of those congratulating him was his friend Martina Anderson.  Who is Martina Anderson?  Well, as a young woman in the 1980s she was an IRA terrorist with multiple convictions, culminating in a life sentence in 1986 for conspiring to cause explosions.  Six years earlier she was arrested at the scene of a bombing in Londonderry and later convicted of possessing a firearm and causing an explosion.

In June 1985 she was arrested at a makeshift bomb factory in Glasgow, along with four other terrorists that included the Brighton bomber Patrick Magee.  Only Magee was convicted in relation to Brighton, but Anderson and the others were convicted of conspiring to cause explosions.  She was released from her English prison thanks to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.

Around that time a young socialist lawyer by the name of Keir Starmer took on the role of human rights advisor to the Northern Ireland Policing Board.  He was still in that role when Anderson - now a Sinn Fein Assembly Member - was appointed a member of the policing board.  With peace in Northern Ireland still relatively new, it was a highly controversial appointment given the IRA's murder of more than 300 police officers.  Starmer didn't seem to mind, and he bonded with Anderson.

Their friendship was exposed for the world to see when Starmer was elected Labour leader in 2020.  Anderson publicly congratulated Starmer and also praised Corbyn, sharing photos of her with the respective Labour leaders (see Facebook post below).  The photo with Starmer was taken in January 2018 when he was Corbyn's Brexit spokesman.  Sinn Fein were also opposed to Brexit and campaigned to keep Northern Ireland inside the EU, which thanks to the fudged Tory Brexit it still technically is.

Anderson has not toned down her Republican rhetoric and describes herself as a 'former PoW' on her social media profiles.  While in prison she formed a close friendship with another female IRA convict, Ellie O'Dwyer.  O'Dwyer died earlier this month and photos of her and her coffin currently adorn Anderson's social media profiles (see X screenshot below).

In order to distance himself from Corbyn and present himself as a moderate, even patriotic leader, Starmer does not want to publicise his links to Sinn Fein.  Anderson's public endorsement in 2020 was a huge embarrassment to him.  Starmer tried to keep subsequent Sinn Fein meetings under wraps, in 2021 and 2022, but again came unstuck when Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald tweeted about their 'very constructive meeting'.  Oops.

Labour hasn't changed.  Starmer's embrace of the Union flag is disingenuous at best and earlier this year a former colleague alleged that as a young man, Starmer supported a united Ireland.  With Sinn Fein now at the helm in Northern Ireland, how safe can the Union be under our next Prime Minister?

STARMER OMITS SINN FEIN MEETING

Keir Starmer has been passing himself off as some kind of statesman in a visit to Ireland over the past 24 hours.  Accompanied by his shadow Northern Ireland spokesman Peter Kyle, Sir Squeaky was received by the Irish Taoiseach, the President of Ireland, the defence and foreign affairs minister, the finance minister and the Irish Labour Party leader.  He posted a series of tweets from the visit, including a set of photos from some of those aforementioned meetings...

He also tweeted the following...

He also retweeted the Taoiseach, the President, the Irish Foreign Ministry, finance minister, Trinity College Dublin and the Belfast Telegraph.  However, there was another meeting that neither Starmer or Kyle wanted voters to know about.  Unfortunately for both of them, the other party at that meeting was not so shy about it...

That's right folks, Starmer and Kyle had a cosy sit down meeting with Sinn Fein's leader Mary Lou McDonald (and yes, that is a Palestinian flag in her profile picture).

 

Why the secrecy Sir Keir?  Is it perhaps that you realise how damaging such acquaintances can be perceived back home?  At least Jeremy Corbyn was straight up and honest about his relationship with Marxist terrorists.

This is not the first time that Starmer has been embarrassed by a Sinn Fein figure.  When he was elected Labour leader in 2020 one of those who congratulated him was Martina Anderson, a former IRA bomber who was arrested in 1985 alongside Brighton bomber Patrick Magee.  She was sentenced to life the following year for conspiring to cause explosions.  In a Facebook post, she posted the following photograph of the pair together.

Keir Starmer pictured with convicted IRA terrorist Martina Anderson

LABOUR 'NOT UNIONIST'

Two members of Labour's Socialist Campaign Group have hit out at Keir Starmer after he said he would back Northern Ireland's status within the United Kingdom in any future Irish border poll.  Starmer visited Belfast and Londonderry at the weekend and was asked about his position in an interview with BBC Northern Ireland: "I personally, as leader of the Labour Party, believe in the United Kingdom strongly, and would want to make the case for a United Kingdom strongly and will be doing that".  Starmer added that he would make the case for the Union regardless of whether the question was Irish unification, Scottish independence or Welsh independence.

The member for Brighton Kemptown clearly took exception to Starmer's position and declared that Labour were 'not Unionists'.  Lloyd Russell-Moyle pointed out that Labour is aligned with the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) who have always campaigned for Irish unification.  Diane Abbott agreed as she retweeted her comrade.

There are a couple of issues with what these far left buffoons had to say about the SDLP.  Firstly, the SDLP is not a Republican party, they are Irish nationalists (albeit simultaneously socialists like the SNP and Plaid Cymru).  The main Republican party in Northern Ireland is Sinn Fein, a party whose luminaries Diane Abbott has enjoyed the company of for many years.  Photographs of Abbott cosying up to Martin McGuinness, Gerry Adams and his successor Mary Lou McDonald are easy to come by, while photographs of her alongside members of Labour's actual 'sister party' less so.  By referring to the SDLP as Republicans, Abbott and Russell-Wotsit bely their true loyalties - to the murderers and terrorists of Sinn Fein/IRA.

Abbott pictured at an Easter Rising commemoration in 2016 with Sinn Fein
leader Mary Lou McDonald and Sinn Fein activist Jayne Fisher

Secondly, we can also take issue with Lloyd's assertion that he 'takes a lead from the SDLP and the people of Northern Ireland'.  If he took his lead from the people of Northern Ireland then he would be a Unionist.  In the 2017 assembly elections, the SDLP returned just 12 MLAs to the Northern Ireland Assembly from a total of 90 members.  It currently has just two MPs at Westminster from a total of 18 Northern Ireland constituencies.  That's not exactly a persuasive lead.

BEEB'S 'CONTROVERSIAL' CHURCHILL

The BBC have tarred our wartime leader yet again by referring to him as 'controversial'.  In an article published on the BBC News website on Thursday, the Beeb refer to a bust of Churchill in the Oval Office as 'controversial'.  This harks back to their repeated references during last year's BLM riots to the 'controversial' statue of Churchill in Parliament Square.

The latest report discusses the decorative changes Joe Biden has made to the Oval Office since taking office.  Naturally, he's had a revamp and undoubtedly first to go was the Churchill bust that was reinstalled by Donald Trump after it had been ejected by his Democrat predecessor Barack Obama.  Biden is fiercely proud of his Irish heritage and is also a huge critic of Brexit.  Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill has made references to both since he took office, saying that the new president shares her party's view of Brexit.  She also issued the following sinister statement: "You can see all of his public contributions involve some element of presenting his Irishness and I think he'll be a good friend to us in the time ahead".  When she says 'us', she's not talking about Northern Ireland.

Meanwhile, the increasingly woke Lisa Nandy also pilloried Churchill following Biden's inauguration, accusing Boris Johnson of trying to start a 'culture war over a statue of Churchill'.  Er, weren't the repeated acts of vandalism more of a war-like declaration Lisa?  The shadow foreign secretary added: "Joe Biden, he's a woke guy.  He appointed an amazingly strong woman of colour, who is also pro-choice, as his running mate, he mentioned the trans community in his victory speech, he stood up for the Black Lives Matter protesters, he spoke out about the policing of that movement, and he's never shied away from standing up for his values".

So much for Labour's newfound embrace of patriotism under Starmer.  Did Nandy not get the memo?  With such smug metropolitan elitist views she and her ilk are once again alienating the very people Labour need in order to win an election.

SINN FEIN JOIN BLM BANDWAGON

Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill has released a sickening video in which she fawns over a republican mural in honour of George Floyd.  The mural depicts the murder of George Floyd, including three police officers standing by in a 'three wise monkeys' pose.  It should come as no surprise to see Marxist Sinn Fein jumping on the Black Lives Matter bandwagon.  The BLM movement has become synonymous with the political hard left, who see it as a vehicle to destabilise Western democratic society.  Labour, the SNP and Plaid Cymru have also expressed support for the movement this week.

The Sinn Fein video also features Paul Maskey, the 'MP' for Belfast West.  He reels off a brief history of republican contribution to hard left causes around the world - including the communist International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War and Marxist sponsorship of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.  Black Lives Matter is seen as a continuation of the Marxist cause.  Incidentally, the same leftists who opposed apartheid say nothing about the wave of violence against white South Africans since apartheid ended.

Since the mural was unveiled critics have pointed out that some of the IRA's victims during the Troubles were black.  At least three black members of the British Army were murdered by the IRA.  Eustace Handley and Errol Gordon were murdered in separate IRA attacks in 1972, while Paul Garrett was shot dead by an IRA sniper in 1993.

There is also a question arising from the depiction of the three officers standing on the left hand side of Sinn Fein's BLM mural.  These are meant to represent the three officers who stood by while the white officer knelt on George Floyd's neck.  The somewhat ambiguous ethnic depiction is intended to suggest that all three were white, but in reality only one of them was white (see mugshots below).

The four officers charged in relation to George Floyd's murder

Yet another example of the left twisting the truth in order to make the crime appear as racially provocative as possible.  Where the left is involved in Black Lives Matter remember that division is their game, destruction is the aim.

LAVERY'S SINN FEIN SHAME

Labour Chairman Ian Lavery

If, as widely expected, Keir Starmer wins on Saturday, one of the frontbench casualties is likely to be the hapless Ian Lavery.  The ultra Corbyn loyalist was made Labour Chairman in 2017 and has gone on to embarrass himself and the party almost every time he opens his mouth.  Most recently he hit the headlines after calling coronavirus a "great opportunity" for Labour.  He also defended commie journalist Ash Sarkar after she was trolled online over a viral clip in which she joked that the white depopulation of London meant her people were "winning".

Piers Morgan has described Sarkar as "one of the most spiteful and vicious people on Twitter".  Yesterday she mocked the PM's adviser Dominic Cummings after news broke that he was displaying symptoms of Covid-19.  And yet here's Lavery attacking the people trolling her...

We won't go over the historical exploits of Lavery as they are too numerous, but recently we clocked a disgraceful low that had previously gone unnoticed.  One of the many Twitter accounts he follows is that of Republican Sinn Fein (see below).  This is not to be confused with the Sinn Fein of Mary Lou McDonald and Gerry Adams - no, that's bad enough - Republican Sinn Fein is linked to the Continuity IRA and does not recognise the Good Friday Agreement.  Since 2004 Republican Sinn Fein has been designated a 'terrorist organisation' by the US State Department.

As clear as day and in full view of the public, Lavery follows a group that supports physical resistance to the British state.  Disgusting.  He also follows McDonald's Sinn Fein, but he is not alone there.  The official Sinn Fein Twitter account is also followed by hard left Labour MPs like Louise Haigh, Grahame Morris, Bell Ribeiro-Addy and, naturally, Jeremy Corbyn himself.

The loss of loony lefties like Ian Lavery (and Richard Burgon) from the front bench will be a huge loss - to the Tories.  Diane Abbott has already confirmed she is standing down regardless of who wins and the status of Jeremy Corbyn after Saturday will be watched with intense interest.  Would Starmer dare send him to the back benches after Corbyn has made no secret of the fact he is desperate to remain on the front line?  If Sir Keir does send him packing it will put the hard left on a war footing.  They are not going to leave quietly.

SEPARATIST SHAME

When Sinn Fein pulled off a shock result in the Irish elections recently it surely raised the spirits of hordes of Brit-hating leftists in the UK.  The Marxist party's success will have pleased the likes of Corbynistas, but will also have been relished by the separatists of Plaid Cymru and the SNP.  All these parties have two things in common - they're all left-wing and want to break apart the United Kingdom.  Therefore, success for one party weakens the Union and gives hope to the others - divided we fall.

When the SNP's Joanna Cherry appeared on BBC Question Time recently she was exceptionally smug about the success of Sinn Fein and happily predicted that Northern Ireland would break away before Scotland did.  Never mind the fact that Sinn Fein's armed wing murdered hundreds of Scottish descendants during the Troubles - people who made Ulster their home, but have been forsaken by the SNP and their fanatical drive for a socialist state.  We must not neglect to mention the sacrifice of Scottish members of the British Army either.  Again, their spilt blood on the streets of Northern Ireland is meaningless to the fake nationalists of the SNP.

A couple of days ago a poll was released that somewhat undermined Joanna Cherry's cocky prediction.  The detailed poll appeared in the Belfast Telegraph, with the headline grabber that just 29 per cent of those asked would support the secession of Northern Ireland.  This compared to a whopping 52 per cent that backed the status quo.

This was not an isolated response either.  Of the last ten polls conducted on the issue, only two returned a separatist majority and it was a negligible lead - one per cent (Sept 2019) and three per cent (December 2017).  The other polls returned a majority for the UK ranging from three per cent (May 2018) to 33 per cent (June 2018).

Regardless of opinion polls, Joanna Cherry's confidence in Sinn Fein to deliver a united Ireland is misplaced.  Even if Sinn Fein manage to form a coalition government, it will be in Dublin - not Belfast.  The Irish Republic has no jurisdiction in the affairs of the United Kingdom, let alone the power to force a border poll.  Sorry Joanna, but Northern Ireland is not going anywhere.

Coalition talks in Dublin have stalled

ENEMY OF MY ENEMY

Sinn Fein leaders O'Nell and McDonald, pictured at Westminster with
Labour's Jeremy Corbyn and Tony Lloyd

Sinn Fein refuse to take their seats in Parliament, but they are still trying to influence the Brexit process by linking up with Brexit blocking mainland parties.  The Marxists continue to maintain close links with Corbyn's Labour, but also the separatist parties in Scotland and Wales.  It's only natural for such alliances to blossom as both Plaid and the SNP also look to undermine the British state and ultimately break it up.  'The enemy of my enemy is my friend' is a very appropriate term, but these parties share so much more.

The SNP, Plaid, Sinn Fein and Labour are all situated on the left and in the case of the so-called 'nationalist' parties they all vehemently oppose Brexit.  This is particularly distasteful in the case of Plaid, in that Wales voted Leave, but it also further illustrates the falsehood that these are nationalist parties.  Advocating independence for the home nations, but within the European Union, is a laughably absurd policy.  There is no independence for any member state of the EU, only submission, diktat and slavery.

Sinn Fein, Plaid and the SNP also share outlandish policies in their attitudes to multi-culturalism and mass immigration.  Despite appealing to actual nationalist tendencies by espousing the preservation of cultural identity, they all support mass immigration to the point of Labour-style open borders.  Open for all that is, except for those nasty English.  The hypocrisy is staggering.  A migrant who has settled in Wales, having at least some basic knowledge of the English language, is even less likely to learn Welsh than an English person who has relocated to Wales - and yet Plaid, the so-called 'Party of Wales', promote freedom of movement.

These are not nationalists.  These are leftists appealing to nationalist sentiment, but whose agenda is to deliver a new state trapped inside the EU while the national, cultural and ethnic integrity of said state goes down the pan in favour of mass migration and submission to a foreign power (the European Union).  The only way to protect the cultural identity of Scotland and Wales is to maintain our United Kingdom, free and independent of Brussels.  The EU is not your friend, or your saviour.  Neither is Sinn Fein.

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald addressed Plaid Cymru's conference yesterday

FRIENDS REUNITED

The funeral of IRA murder victim Lyra McKee is currently taking place in Belfast.  Theresa May is sitting alongside the Irish Taoiseach, while Jeremy Corbyn is sat next to Sinn Fein leaders, naturally.  He is accompanied by the veteran Rochdale MP Tony Lloyd.

Sinn Fein Deputy Leader Michelle O'Neill chats to Tony Lloyd and Jeremy Corbyn

Sinn Fein's current leader Mary Lou McDonald greets the Labour delegation

McDonald talks discreetly to Corbyn before resuming her seat next to Arlene Foster

LITTLE OWEN SINN FEIN LOVE-IN

Little Owen has been following in the treacherous footsteps of Corbyn, Abbott and McDonnell for years by pathetically pandering to Irish Republicans.  He makes no secret of the fact he wants to betray our people in Northern Ireland by forcing them out of the United Kingdom.  On Friday he interviewed Sinn Fein' leader - the odious Mary Lou McDonald - not for the first time mind.  It's painful to watch, what a stain on our nation.

Here's why Sinn Féin will never take their seats in parliament, according to their leader @MaryLouMcDonald pic.twitter.com/rtQvorG5fx

— The Guardian (@guardian) 12 April 2019

Meanwhile, here's Mary Lou McDonald celebrating St Patrick's Day in New York last month.  We changed the word "England" to something else to expose the utter hypocrisy of the left.