Lets be very clear. Loyalists bands and marching has nothing to do with WW1 or the Somme. Since time immortal, they were designed as triumphalist sectarian shows of strength, especially passing isolated Catholic areas like Ardyone/Short Strand. Often escorted by the RUC.
Do you want to list off bad acts we've done to each other?
Our list is longer, started much earlier than yours and cost us significant percentages of our population.
Family of Kathleen Thompson, shot dead by a British soldier in 1971, overwhelmed and emotional after damning verdict at inquest. Soldier did not hold honest belief that he under fire and shooting not justified. This is why @BrandonLewis wants 2 stop inquests
Who is your favourite British socialist of all time?
James Connolly, Keir Hardie, Clement Attlee, Nye Bevan, Tony Benn, Arthur Scargill, Harold Wilson, Jeremy Corbyn?
Just while everyone is paying attention to who James Connolly was....
It is important to note that the British tied him to a chair so they could execute him along with the other Irish leaders in a series of gross war crimes.
Scotnats really need to feck off and stop making everything about themselves. Connolly's only connection to Scotland was being born in a slum that Irish people were confined to. He referred to himself as Irish in all his writings, not Scottish. Respect his identity.
James Connolly was from Edinburgh. Is Mick Lynch another English Left figure who celebrates Irish self determination but draws the line at Scottish self determination?
It's one of the great hypocricies of Socialist England:
Irish freedom = good
Scottish freedom = bad
I was a victim of of horrible racism by the Army after my mother was killed in McGurks Bar. The comments and continued harassment my brother and I received were , I’m sure, a lot worse than Mr Beattie received.
Of course the former British soldier senator sticks up for the racist British military.
It should be noted that Doug Beattie, leader of the Ulster unuonst party, has said that he was brought to tears many times due to the anti Irish racism he experienced in the Brit army.