Awh, that's so romantic. Maybe they even gazed into each other's eyes and whispered sweet nothings before she went away to rouse the rabble to do, I don't know, murder a gay person or something.
Maybe. "Honest" as in he honestly hates the other side, and "straightforward" as in he and his goons marched "straightforward" into Clontibret and held the whole place up in the 80s?