Shinner boss Gerry Adams needs to swing his election pelted Provo front to the Hard Right to avoid a Paisley-style coup within his own ranks.
Today's (Monday) make-or-break shindig for Sinn Féin will decide whether Adams still has a future as party president, or if he'll end up like Big Paisley.
The Southern local council and European polls saw the Shinners well ands truly kicked in the balls.
What republicanism needs is a new radical Right-wing party – not the Shinners spinning out more left of centre crap about saving the working class.
The South rejected Sinn Féin because it is now regarded as the Communist Party under another name.
Sinn Féin needs to relaunch itself as an ultra Right-wing nationalist party under the banner – Ireland for the Irish and nobody else!
Shinners aligning themselves with Left-wing policies might have been cool in 1916 in the days of Connolly and Larkin, but it has become a major millstone in the third millennium.
Irish Labour has become a joke; the Stickies have faded into the dustbin of history, and the new kids on the dissident Left block, eirigi, should seriously seek professional help from Nutcases Anonymous.
Adams has talked in the past about his admiration for radical Irish Presbyterianism. There's the solution to your political migraines, Gerry. Turn Sinn Féin into an Irish National Party with the slogan – Be Proud to be a Patriot.
One of Ireland's greatest Protestant nationalist patriots was the journalist Ernest Blythe, who became a leading light in General Eoin O'Duffy's Blueshirt movement.
To stop young republicans becoming eirigi nutters, Adams should launch the Greenshirts – a radical Right-wing youth movement which instils disciplined Irish patriotic values, folklore and culture into its ranks.
The Greenshirts could help eliminate the nationalist scourges of joyriding and recreational rioting.
Gerry should announce that the Shinners are amending their title to Sinn Féin, the Nationalist Patriots Party.
If you want a radical Right-wing Presbyterian to explain this much-needed new Irish Patriotism to the unfaithful, give me a shout at my email ( john.coulter @ thestar.ie ).
As a life-long Rangers fanatic, even I'd be happy to swap my beloved Glasgow blue top to don the shamrock shirt of the Greenshirt movement. Right is might, Gerry!
