The Scottish National Party are a weird bunch. Which shouldn’t be a surprise, really: they are, as Theodore Dalrymple says, nationalists and socialists – national socialists, to coin a phrase. Which may explain their Euro-boner: the last lot of national socialists were also committed to founding a “United States of Europe”. And they, too, hated Britain for not wanting to join in.
National socialism is the only coherent explanation for the SNP’s twin aims to both break away from Britain and become an independent state – and simultaneously to give up their independent statehood by joining the EU.
But the SNP are not the only British party dedicated to the self-contradictory aims of throwing off the British yoke and shouldering, not just the European one but the American, instead.
Sinn Fein translates as ‘We Ourselves’. It was set up to get Britain out of Ireland. Now it’s welcoming America in.
O’Neill is referring to Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald gleefully welcoming US politicians to Ireland.
The US delegation, led by congressman Richard Neal, is in Ireland largely to moan about Brexit Britain. They’ll be echoing Nancy Pelosi’s haughty, imperial message to our pesky kingdom that dared to vote to leave the EU – that if Boris Johnson tampers too much with the Northern Ireland Protocol, then the US might have to rethink its trade deal with us. In short, do as we say or your economy will suffer.
Remarkably, McDonald embraced these threats from America to punish a democratic nation – the UK – if it does anything to upset the Biden administration’s allies in Brussels […]
‘(The) Protocol is here to stay’, she continued. There you have it: Sinn Fein as cheerleader for the machinations of Empire.
But Biden’s America is not the only globalist empire that Sinn Fein are keen to subject Ireland to.
Sinn Fein, once upon a time, was Eurosceptic. It saw the EU as a thief of sovereignty. In the 1970s, when Ireland and other countries were mulling over whether to join the European Community, a Sinn Fein bigwig said he was ‘perplexed’ by the idea that Ireland should ‘surrender its sovereignty to an even bigger entity than Britain’. Fast forward 50 years and SF is the EU’s best friend on the island of Ireland, valiantly defending Brussels’ interests against the upstart masses of the United Kingdom.
Like the national-socialists-in-kilts, the national-socialists-with-bombs have giddily switched allegiances from one imperial power to another.
Once determined to defend Irish sovereignty from all-comers, including the EC, now SF is happy to do the bidding of ‘even bigger entities than Britain’, whether that’s Washington or Brussels. Once keen to make Ireland a truly independent nation, now SF is content to see it become a patsy state sandwiched between two power-hungry global forces: the US on one side, the EU on the other.
Ireland, O’Neill observes, “now largely exists in the minds of some to further the interests of external powers”. McDonald is not only acutely aware of, but all-too-happy to go along with keeping Ireland as a vassal state.
It’s an ignominious end for a nation that was once determined to show the world that even small countries could be free and self-determining.
Spectator Australia