Why Alyn Smith MP should get in touch with Kevin McKenna

Infighting is a part of the natural order of party politics.

A newly elected young Tory MP, eagerly taking up a place on the benches and pointing to the benches opposite, said to Churchill, “So that’s the enemy”.

Churchill supposedly replied, “No son, that’s the opposition”, and then pointed to the benches behind and said, “That is the enemy”.

It would appear that SNP MP Alyn Smith isn’t talking his recent reversal well at all.

Normally, I would concern myself with such matters.

However, when this site had just started back in 2008 when the Brit politician came across my radar.

You can read about it here.

Looking back  I’m still convinced about my initial assessment that his invite to Eoin Ryan MEP was part of a charm offensive.

Of course, the staged event at the City Chambers did not factor in a Fenian with an NUJ Press Card making the journey from Donegal.

When I put questions to Smith’s PR chap containing the term “anti-Irish racism”  it was clearly a problem.

For the avoidance of doubt, the local media, to the extent they bothered to turn up, presented no problems for the British MEP and his PR team on the day.

The very fact that a fact-finding mission that been prompted by the Famine Song controversy could avoid that subject told me that I was asking questions that those in power did not want to answer.

Dear reader, those are the only questions worth asking.

The fact is that the Famine Song issue had been raised in the European Parliament in Strasbourg and, ipso facto, the reality of anti-Irish racism in Fair Caledonia became a matter of record.

Of course, in those days the Brits were members of the European Union.

Thankfully they’ve gone, and they took their flags with them.

 

Here is Alyn Smith doing a nice piece of performance art in Strasbourg.

 

These days he sits in the British Parliament.

Of course, in order to do so, he had first to take the loyal oath to the Saxe-Coburg crime crew.

Ah well, it’s a living…

Little wonder the ruling elite in Westminster have such contempt for them

An inconvenient truth for the Honourable Member for Stirling and his ilk is that anti-Irish racism was part of the source code of modern Scotland, and that is still to be addressed.

The ruling SNP group on Glasgow City Council had an opportunity to make a healing gesture to the Irish community in Glasgow with the Famine Memorial.

However, for whatever reason, they couldn’t do it.

Instead of a standalone memorial to the dead of An Gorta Mór, the Brits commissioned a structure that incorporated the events in the Highlands of Scotland at the same time.

Sir John McNeill carried out a report in 1851 into the effects of the potato blight in the Highlands noted that there had been no known deaths by starvation.

In Ireland, it was at least a million.

Thankfully, the Irish Community had seen enough, and they’re building their own.

This is what it will look like.

Not everyone in Scotland is blind to the unfinished business apropos anti-Irish racism.

To that end, a hat tip is due to Kevin McKenna for his piece in the Herald today.

You can read it here.

However, this is the key paragraph.

Now that the Honourable Member for Stirling has a wee bit more time on his hands then he can get in touch with Kevin for a tutorial.

Modern Scotland has yet to face up to the shameful history and contemporary reality of anti-Irish racism.

Twelve years after this site started, it would indicate that there is still much work to do on the subject.