What price power sharing? | Socialist Action 1983

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'SINN Fein went out in the Westminster elections to establish a firm Republican base,' said Sean McKnight, a Belfast city councillor.

*And that comrades is what we have done, aralliot ercal lcule bias,' he said, speaking at the Socialist Action 'Politics After the Election' conference on Saturday 4 June.

'Sinn Fein fared well out of the elections in the Six Counties. We dropped a couple of percentage points, but none to cet armed We held onto West Belfast, the seat that was in the spotlight, ' McKnight explained.' However, 'the umonst vole was down in spite of having an agreed candidate in al areas. The unionist pact took a hammering anc began to split and crumble.

He went on to loyalist taskforce has Issucu a uocurlicil saying that maybe the! will share power with would love to share but that does not represent the position ot the nationalist people What would th SDLP get in return for putting a unionist government back into Stormont? I shudder to consequences. surprised if Sinn Fein was bargained off by the British government. Sinn Fein could be proscribed and there could be selective internment if the unionists gave the SDLP a couple more seats in a power-sharing government.