In defence of Claire Fox

I have been so unremitting and harsh a critic of the IRA and Sinn Fein since the early 1990s, that Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness tried hard to have me silenced. Sinn Fein still try to shut me up with the help of libel lawyers, and an army of Shinnerbots hurl insults at me on social media, often begging me to die.

I have also worked for years with organisations representing victims of terrorism, including Innocent Victims United, whose spokesman, Kenny Donaldson, recently called the Brexit Party’s endorsement of Claire Fox ‘appalling and indeed borderline contemptuous’ because of her past membership of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) which supported the Provisional IRA, and her refusal to ever account for this. In 1993, when IRA bombs killed three-year-old Johnathan Ball and 12-year-old Tim Parry in Warrington, the RCP newspaper’s disgusting response was: ‘We defend the right of the Irish people to take whatever measures are necessary in their struggle for freedom.’