True Cost of British Citizenship

international | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis Saturday July 09, 2011 19:10 by Seán Ó Murchú - Republican Sinn Féin

Geraldine McNamara PRO of Republican Sinn Fein said that Martin McGuinness has shown his true colours in his statement in the Belfast Telegraph in which he is seeking legislation to make it easier for Irish people to get British citizenship and passports.

This back to the Empire mentality shows exactly what provisional Sinn Fein is all about.

They no longer have a United Ireland without British rule on the agenda and have sold out on their Republican principles long ago she said.

Martin McGuinness said “he was fully supportive of Gregory Campbell of the DUP in demanding changes to the law. This he said would save money for people wishing to obtain a British passport who are citizens of the 26 Counties"

Geraldine McNamara said: “Martin McGuinness got his position in the British-run Stormont administration by hoodwinking his followers into believing that this was the way to a united Ireland. I hope that even at this late stage people see the light and realise he is administering British rule in the Occupied Six Counties of Ireland and his only agenda is to continue that rule through getting people from nationalist areas to join the PSNI and uphold British colonial power in Ireland.”

She continued “True Republicans continue to fight for a united 32-County federal Ireland free from British rule and do not want a Commonwealth situation. This was not what the leaders of 1916 fought for and Republicans gave their lives to fight against the setting up of the present 26 and Sic county states.

“It is a long time since the Provo’s went into the funnel of institutionalised British politics and surrendered their Republican ideals of a united Ireland This is just another

stepping-stone to normalising British rule in Ireland”, she concluded..