DUP Should Shun Sinn Fein/IRA’s Erse Arrogance!
Amidst all the hoo-ha about the DUP, it’s important to remember that, while they’re anti-Brexit, and have done a fair job of preventing the degradation of marriage in Ulster, they are not beyond criticism.
They long co-habited with the Sinn Fein/IRA treason party, and although that collaboration has broken down for now, the DUP could well go back to working with republican scumbags…
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….like Corbyn’s pal, Bloodbeast Adams.
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My own preference in party political terms ‘across the water’ has always been TUV, and their leader, Jim Alister, has issued a reminder of one current concern…
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…the DUP’s seeming unreadiness to slap down Sinn Fein/IRA’s arrogant demand that the Erse (Irish-Gaelic) language be given a status which the tiny number of native speakers in no way justifies.
“An Irish language act enshrined in law would be a “vehicle to hollow out our Britishness…”
The TUV leader described the prospect of granting official status to Irish as a “kamikaze course” for the DUP and said it was time for “far thinking unionists in that party to take a stand on this pivotal issue.”
Jim went on to point out that not only is the proposal wrong in principle but “unnecessary and foolhardy on financial grounds,” as well as expressing fears it would “turn the public service and its jobs into a cold house for unionists.” http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/irish-language-act-a-vehicle-to-hollow-out-our-britishness-allister-
Indeed it would!
What would be a much better idea, and one that the DUP should have included in their deal with Theresa May, would be a requirement for all public servants, both local and national, across the whole of British Ulster…
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George Moore, 
Arnold, and 
Leland Wills are discussing. 
rossrightangle 
Leland Wills 01:52 on June 28, 2017 Permalink |
Jim Alister and TUV cannot be faulted on this language rubbish, because there’s hardly a soul in our wee country speaks that Erse as a mother-tongue.
Even in Eire it’s the language of less than ten per cent, much less I think.
It’s a ploy by Sinn Fein to rub our noses in their power and that power is theirs because the very Bad Friday Agreement perverted democracy.
The DUP said they would not play that game but they did.
Most of us now understand that ‘partition’ was not done right the first time, that map you show was a better plan and it’ll need to be altered if we do it again.
It’s a pity in a way that the republican or nationalist people didn’t catch themselves on in the 20th century and give their loyalty to the UK that they loved to get their social welfare from.
Instead they took what they could get and gave nothing back. They have waved that tricolour flag, so it’s time to tell them to go and live under it.
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Arnold 03:18 on June 28, 2017 Permalink |
I am not aquainted with Mr Alister but he is far-sighted. Maybe he heard about the way the majority in Canada were hit by the Official Languages Act.
That ended up forcing most grades of federal public servants to be fluent in French, very unfair, only the lowest ranks were spared.
This left Quebeckers over-represented in at the top of the civil service structure.
The French have never for years been more than about 30% of the Canadian population and were concentrated in one province, maybe 1.5 if you count New Brunswick, so it should have been enough that they got ‘francophoners’ in government offices there, but they had to have it all.
I was in Northern Ireland as a tourist before the Troubles and never heard anyone speak anything except English ( including among themselves) so where are these ‘ersophones’ located?
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George Moore 09:35 on July 1, 2017 Permalink |
Arnold, you would not have met many Erse-speakers even if you had gone looking for them, because in all the cites and countryside of Ulster there are only ‘only 4,045 said that Irish was their main language.’ That’s from the BBC report on the 2011.census.
That also said nearly 180,000 people gave it as a language of which they could ‘claim some knowledge.’
There’s probably more could ‘clam some knowledge’ of the French and German they learn at school. even if that’s just merci beaucoup or guten morgen.
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