…..I knocked on a door and this nice (but noticeably odd) little man answered. I said the ‘I’m calling on behalf of Alban Maginness and the SDLP regarding….’ introduction, but I was stopped in my tracks. ‘No thanks’, he said, ‘I’m a communist, I always vote SF’. Confused and curious I said, ‘OK, well you do realise that there is a bit of a contradiction in….’ Stopped again.
‘I said I’m a communist and I vote for SF, your not a communist, your a right winger, so I would never vote for you’
I proceeded with a few simple questions.
‘How do you reconcile that, you do realise that the SDLP voted against the Programme for Government mainly because it is right wing?
You also realise that SF wrote the ring wing programme and stick by it to this day, even in the current economic climate?
Tell me how does a communist SF supporter view the current privatisation in education, on Sinn Fein’s watch?’
I could see his mind trying to process what I was saying and then thought I was about to get an answer.
His response. He tried to kick me. The nice but noticeably odd little man tried to kick me. And then shouted me off his front door. Nice.