Mossley Orange

Carla Lockhart MP has written to the Chief Constable raising the serious concerns shared across unionism about the PSNI’s appalling appeasement of PIRA and nationalism more generally.

For those unionists who have drifted toward Alliance, the UUP offers a pro Union home.

Some of us, dismissed as “fringe” voices, were told by the liberal elite commentators, the PSNI & even the SoS that unionists don’t support Drumcree & that there was huge support for PSNI. We told them they were totally detached from reality. Polling shows 82% of unionists backed the Drumcree determination, and 87% have little or no confidence in the PSNI. I think the voices the establishment was listening to were the actual “fringe”.

The latest claims by Gavin Robinson leading the “lawbreaking O’Neill must stay” campaign are not only false, but demonstrable lies.

𝐃𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭-𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 ‘𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭’. There’s an alarming narrative that unionists should not seek to uphold our rights (such as Drumcree) or achieve successful outcomes via lawful structures. Just pause and follow the logic of that: the structures in this society must operate to satisfy nationalists, because if unionists use the law to achieve successful outcomes, then those structures have somehow ‘malfunctioned’. Nationalists say there is ‘no going back’. It’s just another silly slogan, but it exposes their mindset: if lawful structures grant basic rights to unionists, and these are upheld by a court, this is impermissibly ‘going back’ to a ‘bad’ period. As a point of note, if we ‘go back’ in time, nationalism’s IRA were murdering Orangemen. Nothing much has changed given their Garvaghy threats. It’s a mind-trick and we are all expected to suspend reality. But as a result of this structural foundation above, unionists must be mindful not to ‘win’ using the lawful structures, as to do so may ‘inflame’ or ‘energise’ nationalists. And so every step unionists take, including as to whether to use lawful processes to uphold basic rights, must be subject to a preliminary consideration as to ‘how will nationalism respond’? That’s not an equitable society, that’s subjugation. It’s a pretence that we are all equal, but we are only allowed rights if nationalists agree, or, if we agree not to exercise those rights. And we must happily play along, because the ‘peace process’ rests upon this understanding. That so many unionists have actually fell into this Stockholm syndrome is alarming. Drumcree (supported by 82% of unionists according to latest poll) has demonstrated the nature of this two tier society and how, in truth, the post 1998 structures (including Parades Commission & courts) are supposed to only superficially apply equally to all, but in truth are expected to deliver nationalist outcomes only. The narrative that unionists should cow down and facilitate this system is insane: it is suicide. It must be faced down. If it energises nationalists, so be it, the alternative is to live on your knees with an overriding ‘unionism must give, nationalism must get’ ethos. It embeds the supremacist mindset that characterises almost all of nationalism (even those who think they are moderates). In order to break this mindset, you have to crack a few eggs to make an omelette. Unionism has to see exactly who these people are: and if you can’t see that and the two tier society before your eyes after Drumcree, then you are choosing to look away. Fight back, or appease them, but you can’t do both. If you chose appeasement at least be honest about it. I fundamentally believe there is an energy and a change stirring within the grassroots of unionism: enough was an enough long ago, but now a line is going to have to be drawn.

Gavin says he is listening, before going on in his weekly email to repeat the same falsehoods & defiant message of ‘O’Neill must stay’. Herein lies the problem: the DUP listen, they say, and then tell everyone why they are right anyway. Never learn. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…