Mr Butler failed to get nominated as a Sinn Fein candidate in the West Belfast Assembly constituency after changes to the boundary. His statement today has led to attacks from the anti-water charges We Won’t Pay Campaign who have raised concerns that Sinn Fein are preparing to impose water charges after May’s elections.
Pat Lawlor, secretary of the We Won’t Pay Campaign stated
“Sinn Fein posed as being anti-water charges in the last election, yet the Budget passed has not scrapped water charges, it only states that water charges will be deferred for an unspecified period. That means water charges could be introduced in 2012. Mr Butlers comments suggest that senior members of Sinn Fein are contemplating introducing water charges.
“This proves that water charges are not off the agenda and our campaign for mass non-payment of the charges if introduced will not go away. We already pay for water and our rates are rising. Water charges are a double tax and people should refuse to pay them if the next Assembly introduces them.
The cynical posturing of the Green Party in calling for a January General Election for the “good of the country” will not save it from annihilation when the Irish people go to vote. In three and a half years in government, the Greens have shown themselves to be no more than a clutch of arch opportunists who were quite happy to assist Fianna Fáil make working class people pay for the consequences of the economic and political crimes of that party who carry full responsibility for the disaster which has been viswited on society.
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In an obituary of George Best, comrade Peter Hadden wrote “George Best composed poetry with his feet”. What a wonderful complement to a football genius from the working class streets of Belfast. And now Marie Jones and Martin Lynch have gone one further. They have “Besty” using those poetic feet dancing. And that soft Northern Irish accent singing in their unforgettable play “Dancing Shoes - The George Best Story”.
Let them eat cake - the ugly backdrop to the beautiful game