See her smile at the former IRA leader – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18607911
There’s Con List MSP Murdo Fraser outside Holyrood three days ago to groom the relatives of Scottish soldiers killed in the Troubles in Northern Ireland and damn the First Minister for meeting with the Sinn Fein leadership.
He writes:
It was good to meet a group of our veterans and representatives of bereaved families from the Troubles outside Parliament today, protesting about the comments of Scotland’s First Minister on Sinn Fein. John Swinney’s comments last week that we should “move on” from concerns about him working with Sinn Fein show a total lack of respect for veterans and victims’ families and are nothing short of shameful.
We should never forget the victims of IRA terrorism to whom Sinn Fein have never apologised. I hope the First Minister will acknowledge their protest and apologise for his comments
The relatives of young boys sent to die have good reason to be angry but with the UK politicians and generals who sent them.
That John Swinney should apologise for meeting with Sinn Fein is an astonishing from a man know for his love of the late queen.
14 years ago:
Sinn Fein has agreed to a historic first meeting with the Queen following a special meeting of the party. Martin McGuinness is due to meet the Queen and shake her hand at a charity reception in Belfast next week. The former IRA leader has been a major figure in the Irish peace process and has been deputy first minister of Northern Ireland for five years.
Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson said the meeting would be a “most significant event”. The BBC’s Ireland correspondent Mark Simpson said it would once have been unthinkable.
In the past, Sinn Fein leaders boycotted royal visits to Ireland and the Irish Republican Army (IRA) targeted members of the Royal Family. In 1979, the paramilitary group murdered the Queen’s cousin, Lord Mountbatten, while he was on holiday in the Republic of Ireland.
Discover more from Talking-up Scotland
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
Talking-up Scotland 
No lie is too great, No trick is too low, that they will not use against Scotlands elected government and independence!
LikeLike
Murdo Fraser and his fellow travellers have been desperately stirring up sectarianism in wider Scotland since the independence movement gained momentum.
I noticed it in the NE of Scotland in 2014 when Bertie Armstrong, the unionist from Northern Ireland and leader of the fishermen, persuaded many voters to vote against independence so that Scotland could stay in the EU and the Westminster government would negotiate a better deal. He lied of course but it worked.
Sectarianism was never a problem in the NE until the independence issue persuaded unionists that divide and rule might work (as it always had in the Central Belt). Banff/Buchan was an SNP stronghold at the time and Alex Salmond’s constituency.
Now Reform UK has continued selling Bertie’s false promises. No matter how often Westminster shafts the Scottish fishing industry there are always mugs to be recruited.
LikeLike