LL.B. Director,Unionist Voice Policy Studies. @JWBConsultancy PR-Law-Advocacy. Author ‘NI Constitutional Law’ & ‘Brexit Betrayed’. NI Director @Centre4TheUnion
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Belfast’s political faultline, by Gerry Lynch (@gerrylynch)
The idea that Nationalists are on the Left and Unionists on the Right is already pretty deeply rooted in Northern Ireland.
Sinn Féin seems to be both ideologically committed to a pro-immigration stance and believes it will reap long-term rewards in a region where the balance of power between the two traditional ethno-sectarian blocs is held by ethnic minorities and detribalised bourgeois liberals.
Yet survey data shows that Catholics are only marginally more supportive of immigration than Protestants in Northern Ireland. The potential for a backlash, then, within Northern Ireland Nationalism to the pro-migration approach of its leaders is very real.
Read more below ⬇️
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Mass immigration is destabilising societies everywhere, but those in charge believe that pretending it isn't will make the problem disappear. Putting a lid on the volcano does not mean that it won't explode. This week's column on what happened in Belfast
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Rangers are trying to reclaim our identity. Real Rangers men with standards that align to how the fans view our club should behave.
We’ve tried a lot of things recently but getting back to our Scottish core and identity is one that I think will bring us all closer together.
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👀 If you missed it during the night...
Derek McInnes has agreed a three-year deal to become Rangers manager. Hearts will be due a six-figure compensation fee.
@Chris_Jack89 exclusive update on McInnes, Danny Rohl to Salzburg and the backroom staff ⤵️
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On @GBNEWS with @Alexarmstrong discussing the immigration crisis & how NI is vulnerable as a backdoor into the UK due to the wide-open land border with the Republic of Ireland
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The reformation 2 is underway. Rangers are so back 🔴⚪️🔵
🚨🏴 Rangers have agreed deal to appoint Derek McInnes as new head coach. 🔵⚪️
Formal steps to follow but deal done.
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Well lets just say thats his referee career over if this is genuine
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💙 Derek McInnes. Rangers manager.
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Deidre, I just saw this, you didn't tag me.
Why have you posted a carefully edited clip that has the effect of distorting my point, ending before I explain myself? The emjoi implies I was inconsistent.
And what are you saying? That unionists are more racist than nationalists? If so, why not actually say it, just as I went on TV to argue the contrary? It is a self-serving nationalist myth
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Mass deportation now! No one cares what Times columnists think anymore
🚨NEW: Protesters are blocking roads in Burnley after a British-born Pakistani was charged with attempted murder for allegedly stabbing a 17-year-old girl in the neck
They are chanting "save our kids"
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'Belfast is the asylum capital of the UK'.
Now that is something that can't be mentioned let alone discussed on the BBC.
Bum's rush from Mark Carruthers if you do.
Jun 13
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland @hilarybennmp said this week on migrants, that “last year we removed 1,000 people from Northern Ireland who had no right to be here”
He was however being deceptive. These were not asylum seekers but illegal migrants caught working in Northern Ireland without permission, being for the most part Roma and Albanians. We need precise details on these returns and not be fobbed off with bland statements
There are still some 3,000 asylum seekers in Belfast who are Home Office funded making the city the asylum capital of the UK (4th out of 360 local authorities.) They mostly have come to Northern Ireland over the open border having first reached Dublin but will never be sent back once they claim Asylum This figure excludes those thousands already granted leave to remain, who are not enumerated and are now reliant on Northern Ireland welfare benefits and funded accommodation. No wonder people in the more deprived communities where migrants have been housed feel angry. They were not asked or even consulted.
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Exclusive: More than 100,000 failed asylum seekers are feared to be living in Britain illegally because they haven’t been deported, the Sunday Express can reveal.
Some 2,000 people who first sought sanctuary in 2010 are still in the UK.
And more than 26,000 have been here for at least a decade despite losing their cases, according to Home Office figures.
In total, 108,022 people refused protection after claiming asylum between 2010 and 2024 have not been removed.
One in four people who first claimed asylum in 2010 still hadn’t been returned by March 2026.
Some 26,850 failed asylum seekers who first claimed asylum between 2010 and 2016 haven’t been returned.
And then the Channel migrant crisis began… and the scandal of asylum seekers switching from work, study and visitor visas.
In short, there’s an extraordinary deportation backlog that is growing at an alarming rate.
More on this to come.
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🚨NEW: Protesters are blocking roads in Burnley after a British-born Pakistani was charged with attempted murder for allegedly stabbing a 17-year-old girl in the neck
They are chanting "save our kids"
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Why no land rovers, dogs & water cannons at today’s hyper-woke protest?
Contrast the PSNI approach to it, with the approach to Scarva.
It’s this type of inherent bias which only fuels discontent.
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So much dangerous nonsense in just a single sentence from Emma to unpack it is difficult to know where to start, not least the concept that terrorist acts are not the responsibility of those who committed them but rather inevitable consequences of “British colonialism”.
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As one dimensional people like Emma, Feeney, Donnelly et al get increasingly indulged by the media (even when they have nothing new to say) it makes it much easier for their played out, tribal & fundamentally sectarian approach to connect with younger people. Very dangerous 1/2
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"Violence did not arrive in Northern Ireland on a boat of migrants, but through British colonialism that incited civil war and the partitioning of Ireland, leaving behind a legacy of sectarianism and a society scarred by conflict."
✍️ @EmmaCDeSouza
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The threat from radical Islam is not just terrorism.
Islamists seek to subvert our society and our democracy.
But what we have is worth defending.
We have to fight back.
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The Newsletter on what is, in effect, the Irish government’s shared island approach to legacy, involving “a hierarchy, in which IRA leaders enjoy de facto amnesty on both sides of the border, while republicans hound the security forces, helped by ideological academics & lawyers”.
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