How typical of you, Mr John Swinney no doubt we will see the picture of you draping yourself beside Michelle O’Neill and Sinn Féin like it’s a perfectly normal day out. Grinning for the cameras. Playing statesman. Pretending there’s nothing at all wrong with standing shoulder‑to‑shoulder with a politician who has openly supported the IRA ,the same IRA responsible for murdering three Scottish soldiers. Teenagers. Young men. A Glaswegian and two young Ayrshire boys. John McCaig, 17yrs old, Joseph McCaig 18 yrs old Dougald McCaughey, 23 yrs old So when you Mr Swinney will be standing there grinning beside someone who defended the organisation responsible, That is not “statesmanship.” It’s a choice, a choice you will have made in initial discussions and a choice that you will make today. It’s also a choice that spits in the faces of the families who still carry that grief every single day. Families who lost sons , young Scottish boys to an organisation Michelle O’Neill has openly supported. You can’t preach love of Scotland while standing shoulder‑to‑shoulder with someone who defended the group that executed Scottish boys serving as soldiers in the British army. That contradiction is the wound. That’s the insult. This is who you are spitting in the face of Mr Swinney..