@LupineLives Nah, it’s the flag of Northern Ireland. Nothing to do with Peaky Blinders
“No Surrender” is a Loyalist slogan that originates from the Siege of Derry in 1688.
Loyalists/Unionists want Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom. Hence the crown on the flag.
@MartinMooreMr@duponline I take your point. But places like Newry were recently voted as a city of sanctuary by SF/SDLP/Alliance. All to seem virtuous without any thought of its impact, and any dissenting opinion shut down as racism.
They don’t get to just absolve themselves of blame imo.
@pilgrim1889@JaryloUEch13479@bap_head@EoinHiggins_ Indeed, the troubles killed the Irish identity for most unionists. It’s seen as a nationalist/republican identity now which is why it’s shunned. I would like us to reclaim it.
Two of the main army regiments are the Royal Irish and the Irish Guards. If it’s good enough for them…
The violence last night was entirely predictable, and so is what today will bring, every elected rep who’s done nothing for years about the conditions that produced it, they’ll be on their feet statement ready, finger pointing, and absolutely zero solutions offered.
As night follows day.
I've tried to write an explainer for why I think we're seeing rioting on the streets of Belfast.
It's not a defence of what's happening. It's an attempt to understand the conditions that made it possible: unfinished peace, segregation, deprivation, constitutional uncertainty, migration and the communities politicians prefer not to talk about.
Link in the next one
Since Blair - 30 years ago - people voted against mass immigration.
Every election, they got up, got dressed, found a pilling station and voted to end mass immigration.
30 years they did that.
Nothing changed. In fact, it got worse.
So they organised marches and protests, and events and petitions and wrote to their MPs and tried every single thing they could legally, to tell the powers that be, that they wanted an end to mass immigration.
The state has deliberately ignored and removed all legal options from the British and Irish people to legally, peacefully, have their demands answered.
THEY, and nobody else, have created and caused division and riots and fury.
The toothpaste can not go back in the tube. We are where we are because, and only because, of 30 years of failed government.
@OswaldBaggins11@Saraita101 That’s just how protests go unfortunately. Vandalism was rife during BLM.
It just feels to me that the whole UK is on a knife edge atm. If this issue isn’t addressed in the next few years I honestly believe this is a mild reaction in comparison. Time will tell i guess.
@OswaldBaggins11@Saraita101 Flooding our country with vast numbers of unvested, undocumented migrants seems to be an issue they’re aligned on. People have had enough. Address it now before reactions become more extreme.
Why should we house the 3rd world before housing our own people first?
@OswaldBaggins11@Saraita101 No, nor would I condone it. But I do not understand why people cannot see that this is completely inevitable and predictable reaction. People have voted against migrants flooding the country over and over again only for the numbers to increase every single time.
@OswaldBaggins11@Saraita101 Why do they still support these people being housed here? Why do they not support stricter immigration laws North and Southq?
Who says i'm not outraged at the Tory govt? I wouldn't vote Reform if I lived in England as they are full of Tory ministers who have caused this problem.
@OswaldBaggins11@Saraita101 Indeed. But Sinn Fein are as fanatical about uncontrolled migration into Northern Ireland. They should all be answering questions.
@broganmcclean Indeed. But when politicians don't listen and brand every concern as racist, this is the predictable and inevitable outcome unfortunately. If the politicians cared they would come up with a moderate solution now while they still can.
@OswaldBaggins11@Saraita101 How about the politicians that led us here by not addressing people’s concerns? Because this is only going to happen again and again and again until they do. How can you people not see this ticking time bomb?