Social media reacts as KISS’ Gene Simmons attends Parliament to call for restoration of Stormont

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KISS icon Gene Simmons attended Parliament, calling for the restoration of power sharing in Northern Ireland.As the BBC reports, Simmons appeared to argue that Stormont – the Northern Ireland Assembly – must be restored to look after people’s needs, and that he hopes “everything gets back in order in Northern Ireland and the people’s business should be done by their elected officials”.The frontman was visiting Parliament as a guest of the Democratic Unionist Party MP Ian Paisley.“One of our crew happened I guess to know him or they discussed something, and I guess he was a big fan,” Simmons told the BBC, revealing that the band’s private jet was struggling to find a place to land in the UK for their tour before Paisley stepped in.Visiting the UK Parliament, by invite of MP Ian Paisley was truly an honor.

Here I am with two gentleman in Parliament who wanted to make sure I was behaving myself. pic.twitter.com/I5ZDnR7L4u— Gene Simmons (@genesimmons) June 7, 2023“The MP called and asked for a favour and all of a sudden our private jet was the only one that was allowed to land near London, and so it was, we landed,” he continued. “I had known about his father of course, legendary Ian senior and what he did for Ireland,” he continued.Simmons added: “I was grateful of course and went down to the House of Commons and met Ian and everybody.

It was actually quite an amazing day. The history and the hallowed halls of democracy, it was very inspiring.”As The Independent reports, Simmons argued that Stormont should return as “Northern Ireland is just as important as any country on the face of the planet and you can’t have people pointing fingers.“People have their lives to lead and it’s the government’s job to take care of people’s.