Mark Spencer Turner

@Marcas_Mac

Marcas Mac an Tuairneir. Gaelic Editor @northwordsnow / Polaris, Cruinneachadh, Speactram OUT NOW / #Gàidhlig #Gay #Genderqueer / My views, here (he/him/e/esan)

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Mark Spencer Turner @Marcas_Mac Aug 12

🚨 Reform want to pass a bill to prevent the use of our native languages in election materials 🚨

Please sign and share this petition to extend the rights of all our native languages across the UK.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7771…

#Gàidhlig #Gaeilge #Scots #Kernewek #Cymraeg #BSL

petition.parliament.uk Petition: Give BSL, Cornish, Irish, Scots, Gaelic & Welsh UK-wide language protections We call on the UK Government to give Cornish, Irish, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and BSL the same official language protections that exist in the constituent nations of Wales, Scotland and Northern...

Mark Spencer Turner @Marcas_Mac 2d

Minority language signage is only 'divisive' if you are observing it from a position of xenophobia, or perceive the use of that language to be a threat to your own.

The fact is that multilingualism is normal across the world. People will still speak Engwish tomorrow.

Jamie Bryson Verified account @JamieBrysonLLB 3d

The same people who present themselves as Rosa Parks for standing as part of the Garvaghy Mob, are seeking to force the imposition of unwanted and divisive Irish signage down the throats of unionist communities.

These people are the true sectarian supremacists. I can’t imagine such signage will have a long shelf life, but who knows.

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Mark Spencer Turner @Marcas_Mac Oct 22

Séamus thinks if he says 'mob' enough times, it becomes true and the images of Carla in Scarva and Big Gav in Dundonald disappear one by one.

Of course, they don't, and nobody anywhere in the UK or across the world buys this tosh outside their loyalist echo chamber.

Jamie Bryson Verified account @JamieBrysonLLB Oct 21

John Finucane apparently believes in the rule of law.

This would be the same John Finucane who stood in defiance of the law as part of a terrorist inclusive mob.
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Mark Spencer Turner @Marcas_Mac Oct 19

Across the UK and the rest of the world it's clear to see a United Ireland is only reasonable closure to all of this. The Westminster occupation of the north becomes a bigger albatross daily. The only people hanging on are a minority in loyalism and the football terraces.

DUP @duponline Oct 19

Sinn Fein want to destroy Northen Ireland and unionism should be very wary of those who want to assist them.
They’re very quick to identify the first step – but then what’s the plan? Don’t be led down an alley by someone who doesn’t know where they are going.

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Mark Spencer Turner @Marcas_Mac Oct 13

If you're going with a literary reference, at least get it right. Yeats didn't blame either side, but the fanaticism carried by all - a poem about owning your own intemperate speech. She need look no further than Lockhart, Robinson and Bryson, who started the whole sorry affair.

Emma Little-Pengelly BL Verified account @little_pengelly Oct 9

Today is the day that any concept of a “New Ireland” died. The lies, spin and promises. It was always nonsense, and that had been laid bare.

I never want any discord. I want to build a brighter future for Northern Ireland - for all of us. I work to that every day. I believe every person in this place I serve sees that.

When others, including the First Minister and her party, have behaved with utter recklessness and disregard for stability and our institutions, I believe in responsibility.

I have always embraced those who are different from who I am, and endeavoured to show respect.

I have witnessed the tradition I come from treated with such utter contempt and hatred.

“Little room, Great Hatred” that is what I’ve seen. That is what we have all saw with our own eyes.

I come from the Orange tradition. I am deeply proud of the warmth, compassion, depth and richness of that tradition. All of our traditions come from particular aspects or “sects”. By its very nature, they are “of “something and not “of” something else. They are exclusionary by the very nature of it pertaining to the particular tradition, beliefs or views of some, but it is not exclusionary by experience or engagement. Every religious order or community is exclusionary by doctrine, but not by outreach. We all deserve respect. That respect and tolerance threatens no one.

It is hard to believe I have to explain the basics of this so many years after the principles of the Glorious Revolution and our human rights and civil rights frameworks, but here we are.

I have been deeply, deeply offended by the way my traditions and culture have been described, treated and expressed.

The behaviour, and jubilance tastelessly and appalling shown by some tonight only shines a light on their intolerance, hatred and ignorance.

I will never be goaded into punishing the people of Northern Ireland for the reckless of Sinn Fein.

But I am disgusted and furious of those who have played to their base and not for what is for everyone.

In this election you have a choice - choose those who want Northern Ireland to work, and those who do all they can to make it so.
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