BBC The View

BBC Northern Ireland's weekly politics programme. Presented by @MarkCarruthers7. Also posts on #SundayPolitics & #BBCRedLines ▪️Email: [email protected]

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

"Labour activists will be disappointed...but I wouldn't have been holding my breath for many Labour councillors or MLAs"

@dmcbfs - on comments by Louise Haigh about the chances of Labour contesting elections in NI.

#BBCSP | @taramillstv

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

"The SDLP is our sister party, so no plans for that."

@DarranMarshall asks Louise Haigh if Andy Burnham supports Labour organising & contesting elections in Northern Ireland.

#BBCSP

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

"Admission to a hospital has to be a significant last resort. As we sit here today we still have people living in hospitals across Northern Ireland."

Dr Agnes Lunny from Positive Futures

@taramillstv | #bbcsp

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

"Truth should be like breathing. It should be something everyone in the health & social care services does."

@GabrielScally says there needs to be a duty of candour implemented in Northern Ireland.

@taramillstv | #BBCSP

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

.@BBCTheView is available now on @BBCiPlayer

Last night we heard about the impact of racist attacks. @DarranMarshall reported from #Makerfield and its irish connection. With analysis from @suzyjourno @chrisadonnelly & David Graham.

@markcarruthers7

https://t.co/V9AxhNTbMz

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

"The real danger is when your legitimate cause is lost through violence."

David Graham says when your protests become violent they lose their legitimate point.

#BBCTheView @MarkCarruthers7

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

"Some of the poeple who have expressed concerns about immigration have also said things like importing alien cultures...."

@chrisadonnelly says we are reliant on migrants helping in our health service.

#BBCTheView @MarkCarruthers7

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

"What we heard is shocking and shameful. Those people are not the people who should be leaving Northern Ireland."

@SuzyJourno says the people who should be leaving on boats & buses are the violent thugs who were attacking hard working people.

#BBCTheView @MarkCarruthers7

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

Is Labour not embarrassed knocking on doors asking people to vote to change the PM two years after asking them to put Keir Starmer into Downing St?

@DarranMarshall asked Andy Burnham's political lead, Louise Haigh.

#BBCTheView | @MarkCarruthers7

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

"It's now becoming like a festival of racist violence...."

Lilian Seenoi Barr from North West Migrants Forum

#BBCTheView @MarkCarruthers7

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

Favour Okpohs from @UlsterUni Students' Union says last week's racist violence meant she was afraid to leave the house for four days but a majority of people care so much for migrants & international students.

#BBCTheView @MarkCarruthers7

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

"Ordinary people, the brilliant people of Belfast were able to come together and get people to safety - in the failure of any state authority being able to do so."

Micheala Rafferty from the Anaka Women's Collective in Belfast.

#BBCTheview | @MarkCarruthers7

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

"I was in the operating theatre. The theatre was full of people from other ethnic minorities - except the patient."

Dr Satyavir Singhal, Consultant Anaesthetist in Belfast

#BBCTheview | @MarkCarruthers7

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

"I think it's very clear people are being asked to change Labour at the top..... The Burnham bounce is undeniable."

@DarranMarshall speaks to Louise Haigh, @AndyBurnhamGM 's political lead in #Makerfield

#BBCTheView | @MarkCarruthers7

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

Coming up on @BBCTheView

We’ll hear from those most impacted by last week’s racist violence in Belfast

@DarranMarshall reports from #Makerfield and hears from the Irish community & the NI campaigners.

With analysis from @SuzyJourno @chrisadonnelly & David Graham.

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

"Violence is always wrong. All it did was punish the innocent.... It detracted from the horrendous incident in north Belfast & distracted from the many lawful, peaceful protests."

TUV leader @JimAllister

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

"People took the opportunity to say we will not stand for racist pogroms - and that's what we saw in parts of Belfast this week."

People Before Profit's @GerryCarrollPBP - on yesterday's anti-racism rally in Belfast.

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

Read more on @BBCNewsNI

https://t.co/zP0vXGmF0S

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

"We saw a family being bundled into a police land rover. I am told the mum is a nurse."

Stormont's Health Minister @mikenesbittni has said the violence that erupted last week was a "stain on Northern Ireland's reputation, locally, nationally and internationally". #bbcsp

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

"We make it an inflection point and we don't have this happening over and over again."

@markcarruthers asks @ClaireHanna how we reassure people?

#BBCTheView