The issue Sinn Féin faces is that the image it presents at mass public meetings and at recruitment rallies must coincide. In addition, what they say to us as plausible statesmen must match what they say to their members when they do not believe the media are present and when there is no need for them to be statesmanlike. Politicians in Sinn Féin and their colleagues on the other side of the divide must realise that the image they present must be always be the same, regardless of the circumstances.