Why Voting for Sinn Féin in the European Elections Is A Bad Idea

Sure you might as well be voting for Putin

Sinn Fein has a complicated history with the European Union, when I say complicated I mean, that they share the same views as the English Tory party, and their DNA is deeply Eurosceptic and dripping in the kind of ethnonationalism that not all that dissimilar to what you might see in UKIP or Putins Russia.

Sinn Féin and Irelands’ independent MEPs are aligned with the imaginatively named, ‘The Left’ in the European Parliament, you guessed it, a left-leaning, socialist group whose voting record aligns with Russian interests a lot in parliament. The Left is the smallest political group in the EU parliament, similar to People Before Profit in the Dáil but just as loud and obnoxious. It’s not the only thing PBP have in common with ‘The Left’. In the European Parliament ‘The Left’ is just as irrelevant as People Before Profit in the Dáil.

Groupings in the EU Parliament are important because they help facilitate cooperation and coordination among Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) who s…