Posted on 03/04/2021 7:03:29 AM PST by Cronos
Loyalist paramilitary groups have told the British and Irish governments they are withdrawing support for the Good Friday agreement in protest at Northern Ireland’s Irish Sea trade border with the rest of the UK.
The Loyalist Communities Council, an umbrella group that represents the views of the UVF, UDA and Red Hand Commando, wrote a letter to Boris Johnson and Ireland’s taoiseach, Micheál Martin, warning of “permanent destruction” of the 1998 peace agreement without changes to post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland.
The letter said unionist opposition to the Northern Ireland protocol – the part of the Brexit deal that keeps Northern Ireland a part of the EU’s single market for goods – should remain “peaceful and democratic”. However, the decision to withdraw support for a peace deal that underpins power-sharing in Northern Ireland seems designed to sound alarm bells in Dublin, London and Brussels....
Meanwhile it emerged that the Police Service of Northern Ireland is investigating graffiti in a loyalist area of Belfast referencing Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove. The message painted on a wall included Gove’s name and an address above the words, “We don’t forget, we don’t forgive”.
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Very bad indeed.
“Meanwhile it emerged that the Police Service of Northern Ireland is investigating graffiti in a loyalist area of Belfast referencing Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove. The message painted on a wall included Gove’s name and an address above the words, “We don’t forget, we don’t forgive”.”
Socialist (Communists) don’t like Brexit.
Totalitarianism in all forms is evil.
Socialism (Communism light) fails every time.
Northern Ireland as part of the UK is history....it may be a long, slow descent....but seems that Brexit basically cut them loose.
always a bit surprising to note the alphabet soup of so many different groups in both the unionist and irish nationalist camps (and in the middle)....sociologically, I think it is still safe to say that there is not a strong unified belief in what the meaning of Northern Ireland really is
Begin looking for suspicious packages on front porches again.
Nonsense. No Surrender!
If the Red Hand says we don’t forgive or forget...
I’d take a holiday
Why? It’s about time the Unionists stood up for themselves. Since the Good Friday Agreement that the Clinton Administration forced on them, the Unionist community has been marginalized and victimized time and again. You have an IRA bomber who serves as a member of the policing board and two unrepentant female IRA terrorists sitting in the Government they tried to destroy. Meanwhile, you have 70 year old British Veterans being dragged into the dock for actions they took 40 years ago. Sinn Fein is a marxist terrorist front group for the IRA and to think American “Conservatives” support them or their desire for a “united” socialist Ireland is beyond me.
Ulster Scots are hardly commies....you have the wrong Irish
They don’t want to be cut loose from mommy England
For damn good reason
The Republican borg will have them
It goes back to Cromwell...well no before actually
James the First....a flamer.....but one who reproduced and had mistresses
End of Nine Years War
First serious Protestant settlements in Ulster end of 16th century
So Prods for 400 plus years ....most reasonable folks would say ....well let em have it
Did that save Afrikaaners? Who actually had Southern Africa as long as Woods have had North America
Nope
Of course Republican Irish are merely Catholic not negro
So they get far less points as the aggrieved party
Did I make any sense....
Cromwell does deserve assignment of responsibility but he didn’t start it
guess I misunderstood.
I knew part uf Ireland did not want to leave the EU.
It’s not exactly that
Northern Ireland Protestants ....the majority in those counties
Don’t like the language in Brexit regarding them
As for Marxism
The IRA has always had an affection for leftism far more than the Ulster Defense Forces etc
All of Ireland is far more leftist than we are
Meanwhile, Irish Republicans have continued to murder police officers, prison officers, and even journalists, but of course that has no affect on the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement ...
Are the Loyalists Communists?
I know very little about that.
doesn’t it go back to Strongbow?
Those who wish to stay in the EU are far leftists. It makes no difference what they call themselves.
Totalitarianism in all forms is evil. Underneath the wrapper they are all evil.
Progressive
Socialist
Marxist #BLM
Fascist #Nazi’s (Erdogan’s Turkey)
Communist #Antifa
Dictator #ComDem_Covid19_Dictators
Islamist
Bureaucrap #the_Swamp
All Evil. All Fail.
Freedom Works.
Yes. I agree.
This has the pawprints of that oaf David Frost all over it. He only took over from Gove last week as the cabinet minister supervising the implementation of the withdrawal and trade agreements. Gove had proved a conciliatory negotiator, especially with Coveney and with the EU commissioner who’s now his opposite number. Within days, this completely pointless unilateral extension is announced, and any slowly building trust vanishes. However Frost ever made a career in the diplomatic service is a mystery.
The Catholics for sure want to join the Republic and the Protestants want to remain with Britain
They are in a long term cease fire basically because both sides learned it was not going anywhere
History favors the Catholics maybe...
It’s a prime example of white people behaving poorly if ever there was one.....so senseless
The Irish are......more emotional and quick to ire than others in their neighborhood
Celtic blood ....or more accurately Scots....
Truly a pointless very personal gangster civil war
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