David Quinn

Because that concern about immigration seems to be most heavily concentrated in working class areas.

And Sinn Féin is obviously trying to pick up that vote, but at the same time is trying to pick up this kind of middle class, liberal left kind of vote that's less concerned.

about the immigration issue and might even be in favour of high immigration.

And so they're trying to straddle the two horses, as Peter was saying, and they are more or less failing to do so.

So they're very vulnerable to losing kind of middle class, liberal left votes to the likes of the Social Democrats.

But somebody, I mean, if Sinn Féin wasn't trying to pick up those sort of working class votes, then who would?

So somebody...

has to come in and try and hoover up those votes.

And this, by the way, Labour in the UK, like was it the Gordon and Denton by-election there recently.

So they, I mean, they lost that even though it was a very safe seat for them for years.

So Labour in the UK is basically a traditionally social democratic party that comes up out of the trade union movement.

And in that constituency, kind of the white working class vote was solidly in their camp.

the student vote solidly in their camp and the kind of immigrant Muslim vote solidly in their camp, that's now all split asunder.

And Sinn Féin has kind of been affected by the same thing, that is fighting it very hard to appeal both to the kind of middle-class liberal left and to working class voters.

The Social Democrats don't face that dilemma to the same extent because they are pitching mainly to that kind of middle-class liberal left vote that historically...

has often gone Labour.

So you had your Gilmore Gail and your Spring Tide.

Now I see John Drennan in the Mail on Sunday is talking about a Holly Tide.

Previously, the Greens have benefited from that.

At times as well, yeah.