HarriettMB<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.ie/@murchadhfinn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>murchadhfinn</span></a></span> When you see the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PSNI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PSNI</span></a> treating an effigy of brown people in a boat, effigies of a rap band, and calls to murder anyone of a different religion as ‘a hate crime’ just as they treat some blue paint on an Orange Hall, or the disappearance of flags from an Arch exactly in the same way ‘a hate crime’: when the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PSNI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PSNI</span></a> give in to banned loyalist paramilitaries threats of mayhem in Belfast rather than protecting people from asbestos: when the Antrim Mayor, Hoey defends bandsmen in Scotland as they assault a pensioner crossing the road: when loyalists sing the Sash outside a politician’s office, and not a single person is held to account for any of this… when ‘leaders’ of unionist political parties call to work together to dismantle the laws set by Westminster for NI and Brexit… and no action is taken against any of this sectarian, racist behaviour, yet someone putting a sticker on a bank wall is arrested and charged: this Labour government has no authority, no control, and shows itself to be part of the problem. Little-Pengelly showed someone from the NIO around for the 12th parades, but conveniently omitted bringing her to an asbestos ridden bonfire site, or one with a boat of brown people on it. These loyalists tried to burn people out of their homes in Ballymena and a leisure centre in Larne recently. The courts and legal system in NI is no better, as they are not defending democracy, politics, or people’s safety by postponing a decision for months. The bigger problem is the reluctance of the Irish government to stand up for better behaviour in NI: and they are obliged to do so under the Good Friday Agreement. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/think32" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>think32</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a></p>