Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.

Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.

British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for a slice of the cake will implement British policy and remain silent when Irish people are murdered and oppressed. It is they who are responsible for prolonging the war in Ireland. Without the quislings, without the collaborators, we would already have reached freedom.

If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere.

The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move.

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.