Starmer: “Happy St Patrick’s Day”. Irish: “póg mo thóin” (kiss my *ss)

At least one Irish person vocally unimpressed with wishes tweeted by Establishment-friendly ‘Sir’ who whipped Labour MPs to abstain on Tory bill that gives immunity to soldiers who shoot civilians

Keir Starmer tweeted a St Patrick’s Day message this morning to ‘the Irish community in Britain’ – and just ‘sláinte’ to any Irish people who don’t happen to live in Britain, which would include people who actually live in Ireland, whether north or south.

It didn’t go down well with at least one Irish reader:

Could it just possibly be linked to the fact that Starmer whipped Labour MPs to abstain on the Tory ‘Overseas Operations Bill’ to give soldiers immunity if they commit atrocities including shooting civilians. Starmer even sacked three MPs for daring to vote against it.

Some of the other responses to Starmer’s tweet certainly seem to suggest it, whether very bluntly or civilly, with many also linking it to Starmer’s original intention to abstain (for a change) on the new Johnson and Patel’s new policing bill:

Fuck off, you whipped your MPs to protect soldiers who murdered irish civilians

— anna lart greene (@grannamhaoul) March 17, 2021

Thanks. My grandparents told me about growing up without the right to protest in County Cork in the 1910s. My great uncle was held at gun point to be shot aged 10 by an armed militia with Black and Tan uniforms unlimited powers he annoyed them speaking Gaelic.

— antiphrastica (@antiphrastica) March 17, 2021

I don't want smug platitudes from a racist. Tiocfaidh ar la.

— Mìcheàl Ò Cuinn (@quinn4equality) March 17, 2021

Thanks. My grandparents told me about growing up without the right to protest in County Cork in the 1910s. My great uncle was held at gun point to be shot aged 10 by an armed militia with Black and Tan uniforms unlimited powers he annoyed them speaking Gaelic.

— antiphrastica (@antiphrastica) March 17, 2021

We"ll all be moving there soon; I think you can still protest there.

— Bernard Thomas (@Bernard36652007) March 17, 2021

Perhaps the initial response could have been far worse than ‘kiss my ass’.

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