Lord Stevens finding 207 of 210 loyalists he investigated were state agents employed by Army Intelligence, MI5 & Special Branch (like Brian Nelson a known sectarian murderer whose targeting information was provided by state intelligence sources) was actually all ‘community work.’
When unionists and loyalists ask why feile get all this money..
No clean up,
No Fire service
No Cops and
No Bonfires.
Community Development in nationalist areas.
Community Destruction in loyalist communities.
The British government’s greatest achievement in Ireland’s southern 26 counties over the last 50 years has been the near perfect shaping of middle class perceptions of the North
It’s a triumph of British propaganda
While not surprising, the fact that a leading Alliance Representative believes that rank & file RUC & British Army Officers were carrying out 'Community Work' in Nationalist areas & not systematically subjecting them to some of the worst excesses of State Violence is unbelievable
DUP pursued the hardest of Brexits not for economic reasons but with the political objective of the Single Market border going between North & South and thus vacuum-sealing the union. It backfired. To deflect from their miscalculation they risk destroying the Assembly. So be it.
Irish Indo’s John Downing slams Leo Varadkar claiming he should regret his unity comments.
“The timing was deplorable”
It is this mentality which is deplorable. The idea that it’s provocative to voice support & work for unity is absurd.
Yesterday The DUP's bigotry & sectarianism was unashamedly laid bare for all to see. Yet we still have people 'both siding' this!
Those people know they're as much part of the problem, don't they?
The DUP is a cult. Like all cults, the outside world is irrelevant. And like all cults, sooner or later it self-destructs, since by definition it cannot adapt to a changing world. Edwin may not believe in dinosaurs. But they are all around him... https://t.co/B3C4e92rNE
Stormont is over. Its had 100 years to act in the interests of all the people, it hasn't, cant and wont. The Northern State was created by sectarianism and bigotry, it will never change the evidence is there for all to see.
Time for an Irish unity referendum, partition is over.
Can I just reassure that one nights heavy policing is definitely bad state of affairs but you are not living in a police state.
Yours,
A few miles up the road where collusion still can’t be talked about in film without journalists being subject to house raids xxx
Doug Beattie’s attendance at this illegal rally, led by balaclava-wearing loyalists, implicitly endorses the ‘long hot summer’ campaign aiming to manufacture division & instability using the band parade culture across NI.
That’s not leadership.
@groogqn@AllisonMorris1 Exactly. Allison tends to ignore the obvious lately. The new glasses she got when she started writing for the Unionist Bel Tel are blinkered.
@naomi_long@PoliceServiceNI@NCA_UK@HMRCgovuk Seems like this crackdown has been going for a couple of years. A quick question minister, how many UVF men are in jail serving time for drug offenses and being a member of a proscribed organisation ?...