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[Loud Whispers]

Lol, making fun of a massacre. Thank you Sinn Fein MP.

Party colleague Máirtín Ó Muilleoir has also apologised for retweeting the video.

He said he saw the tweet as being "wholly apolitical and retweeted it on that basis".

oi |:<

[TD1]

Not sure if you're trying to say his excuse is believable or not.

For me it's laughably transparent.

Also, O'Neill on th TV - "to the Kingsmills victims' families I apologise, as representative of Sinn Fein in the North"

Nice wee barb in your direct address to people who are suffering.

[Sheb]

Not sure if you're trying to say his excuse is believable or not.

For me it's laughably transparent.

Also, O'Neill on th TV - "to the Kingsmills victims' families I apologise, as representative of Sinn Fein in the North"

Nice wee barb in your direct address to people who are suffering.

Uh, I don't get the bard? Is it the use of North?

[TD1]

Yep. As I'm sure you can imagine, it's a very politically charged way of referring to Northern Ireland.

Though I'm also sure many would laugh up their sleeves given the similarity to the country's official name, it's still bad terminology when speaking to Protestants, and an addendum unneeded in her sentence.

[Loud Whispers]

Not sure if you're trying to say his excuse is believable or not.

I'm saying his friend's excuse that it's apolitical is nonsense

[smjjames]

The use of Sinn Fein may also be percieved as a barb (though he IS a Sinn Fein MP) since Sinn Fein is/was the political arm of the now disbanded IRA.

Just another politician doing something dumb and insensitive really.

[Sheb]

The use of Sinn Fein may also be percieved as a barb (though he IS a Sinn Fein MP) since Sinn Fein is/was the political arm of the now disbanded IRA.

Just another politician doing something dumb and insensitive really.

That's dumb, he's saying he's apologizing as a member of Sinn Fein because it was a massacre made by the IRA. That's the point of him apologizing.

[TD1]

Her. Michelle O'Neill took over IRA-leader McGuinness' place. Her father and two cousins were in the IRA.

[smjjames]

Crossposting from Ameripol since this is British people doing it, but were in the name of Trump.

This is the best headline of 2018 - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-supporters-attempt-to-arrest-london-mayor/ar-AAuDxQJ

That thing went from plain silly to outright disturbing, they had brought a gallows to the area where Sadiq Khan was speaking. Not sure if it was the same group or a different one, but you really can't speculate very far what they might have intended to do with the mayor of London.

[Loud Whispers]

That thing went from plain silly to outright disturbing, they had brought a gallows to the area where Sadiq Khan was speaking. Not sure if it was the same group or a different one, but you really can't speculate very far what they might have intended to do with the mayor of London.

BBC news with the edited direct source because the hill is beyond dog shite. Purpose seems clear: Disrupt his speech, there were 3-4 of them and they got salto that they were kicked out 15 minutes in lol. Don't know where the gallows thing comes from, it's something I've only found appear in the Hill and Washington Post, now why these Washington based news agencies have information that no one in Britain has, is probably just a lil bit of embellishment: They want to sell clicks, they want to make it seem like our Mayor was gonna be assassinated. These chuckle fucks were disrespectful and couldn't get the US flag the right way around for their own protest, but the UK has not descended into lawlessness, least not of all in London

[Dorsidwarf]

Mr McElduff has apologised and said he did not realise there could be a possible link between the bread brand and the anniversary.

what a fucking liar. No its just a wacky coincidence you posted a video of you wearing kingsmill bread with the branding clearly visible on the anniversary of the kingsmill massacre

If you're going to mock one of the largest mass shootings in the Troubles at least have the fucking spine to not immediately say "uh um no I wasnt honest mistake guv Q_Q"

[TD1]

To further salt the wound, Sinn Fein is "punishing" him by giving him a few months suspended on full pay. Despite him not having any governmental obligations anyway.

The Republican party has a good propaganda machine, and are very fond of using the mantra of equality and respect. When it suits them.

[hector13]

They are politicians. They have a base they don’t want to alienate, and the troubles are still within living memory for a lot of people on both sides. They need to be seen to do something to appease outsiders without actually really doing anything to appease their base.

Political leadership 101.

[TD1]

Yes, their base probably doesn't mind that he mocked a massacre. Nor do the politicians who they are represented by. That is the problem.

[Loud Whispers]

They are politicians. They have a base they don’t want to alienate, and the troubles are still within living memory for a lot of people on both sides. They need to be seen to do something to appease outsiders without actually really doing anything to appease their base.

Political leadership 101.

They would do well to not forget the 'leadership' in 'political leadership.' Being an ineffectual leader is a common political mistake, its commonness amongst politicians is no path to desire. It tests the patience of your political base, which we saw in the UK from 2015-to now; assuming people are going to support you and all your uselessness because you studied politics in Oxbridge is a surefire way to accelerate your decline, a political base becomes discontent. In this case? If your cause is a United Ireland, one of the principle obstacles is the disunity of Ireland sown in the blood of the past. If you can't even accept whether the IRA did the massacre you will never achieve this goal. It's salt in the wound, no one in Sinn Fein refusing to take responsibility for the actions of their party MP.

And then you get to the politics. Accepting that their MP was wrong for mocking the survivors of a massacre is one thing, but giving them paid leave instead of any disciplinary action? It's politics 101, it's a compromise in a situation which should not beget compromise, because this will not please anyone. Does it please the victims, or does it please their base? No it pleases no one. It is the Logan Paul of apologies.

Have deleted video post. Had not realised or imagined for a second any possible link between product brand name and Kingsmill Anniversary.
Further, I apologise for any hurt or offence caused. Never my intention to offend anyone who has suffered grievously.

I made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgement, and I don’t expect to be forgiven. I’m simply here to apologise.
What we came across in the woods that day was obviously unplanned. The reactions you saw on tape were raw; they were unfiltered. None of us knew how to react or how to feel. I should have never posted the video. I should have put the cameras down and stopped recording what we were going through.
There's a lot of things I should have done differently but I didn't. And for that, from the bottom of my heart, I am sorry.

Oh wait lmao, his apology was less sincere than Logan Paul

politics 101, less than Logan kills the nation