Unionists slam Sinn Fein Remembrance Day ‘snub’

Scotty Scott: Remembrance has nothing to do with British imperialism. It’s to do with the neighbour, the son, the father, the everyday Joe Bloggs Catholic and Protestant who fought and gave themselves for freedom. Sinn Fein again trying to rewrite history because it suits their agenda.

Colum McCrudden: Scotty Scott, just not the freedom of any country under the Commonwealth. Remember your dead, but let those opposed to the poppy have their say.

Diane Simmons: Should be ashamed of themselves. No one would be here if it wasn’t for them fighting — it doesn’t matter what side of the fence you’re on.

Tom Alexander: Yet they are happy to stand alongside those wearing military garb.

Liam Mac Uaid: This isn’t really news. Janice Allen: Obviously no respect for their own that fought in wars and died and still do. Words fail me.

Daire Patrizio: Did the DUP go to see the Pope when he arrived? I can’t recall if they attended the 1916 celebrations in Dublin two years ago. Maybe I’m wrong.

John Lees: Daire Patrizio, 1916 celebrations? They were rebels and traitors who staged a failed rebellion when the country was at war.

Damien Pol Mac Caba: John Lees, traitors to whom exactly? They are heroes who fought to break the tyrannical imperialist rule in our country. I presume that’s why their image is on stamps, why there are streets named after them, why our kids read about them.

Daire Patrizio: John Lees, so rebellion in 1916 is bad, but UVF bringing in guns from Germany is good? How can we be traitors if we’re not loyal to Britain. Of course, they were rebels — rebelling against the occupation of their country by a foreign force.

Billy Lennox: Martin McGuinness went to a number of dinners with the Queen, shook her hand. That is Sinn Fein going right to the top of British imperialism. They are like the weather; they change their minds every day.