It happened umpteen times during the Troubles, and it would appear to be thriving in North Belfast. I’m referring to people whose lives are threadbare, income seriously limited, and who feel a grudge against…well, what have you got?
During the troubles it was working-class Catholics/nationalists. Thirty years of cruelty followed the burning of Catholic homes in Bombay Street. Over 38 homes were so badly damaged on that occasion they had to be demolished. Hundreds of Catholics had to flee for their lives.
What did that come from? Deprived loyalists/Protestants desperate to find someone they could look down on, despise, terrorise.
The attacks on houses in North Belfast and Glengormley last night and the night before – where did that come from? Deprived loyalist/Protestant mobs seeking out people to terrorise and despise – people, in their view, who could be stood on so they, the loyalists would feel they were better than somebody.
And of course unionist politicians leaped on the flames and fear and explained that it all had to do with the ‘porous border’. That’s Gavin Robinson talking. He’s the leader of the DUP. The previous leader is in court in Belfast, being accused of rape and sexual corruption of children.
The Kingdom of Chaos appears to be home turf for lots of unionists – that and despising a section of the population. The deprived loyalists have disgraced themselves by employing mob-think and acting out mob-terrorism. Their leaders have deftly hopped from the soap-box of the undesirability of an ‘alien culture’ coming too close for comfort, to the notion of hordes of those with alien cultures leaking across the border.
Poor Gavin Robinson. He appeared in the British House of Commons to condemn the action on the street, only then it turned out he was really talking about BOB – Build Our Border.
Sorry, Gavin. You’re about forty years too late. I doubt if Jeffrey would have made such a school-boy error.
The DUP had the British government of Theresa May in the palm of their hand during Brexit, they literally had it in their power to topple them and yet they ended up with a deal they despise and bleat about to this day. Being the lickspittle bunch they are, they were more interested in posing for pictures at the big desk, smiling like the cat that got the cream. Arlene was there, like the fat girl who got asked to the school disco. So much for their negotiating skills. Now they have to live with the consequences.
Why is Ireland becoming a safe haven for the world’s most violent men? Are you not in the least bit concerned Jude?