Northern Ireland 2125?

This is classic ‘ourselves alone’. This is completely alien to Northern Ireland.
francies ‘were alright, so **** the rest of you’ is exectly what the roi government done during both wars (and the ni troubles).
thankfully 1,000s of good people from roi stood up and faced the nazis. I could never be part of a ui that said **** the poles, let Russia take them.

that is a truly disgraceful position. I hope that everyone that shares a nation with francie is rightly embarrassed. Thank god we are not part of such a cowardly position. It does though for with SF currently and historically. Let’s be neutral and opposed to violence, but let’s assassinate Jean mcconville and murder Protestants in their place of worship

You are probably blocked from full article so here it - my not format very well:

Warning from UVF and UDA comes after City Hall agrees to dual signage at facilities and bilingual logos on uniforms

DUP leader Gavin Robinson

UVF gunmen in Belfast

TUV deputy leader Ron McDowell

DUP leader Gavin Robinson

UVF gunmen in Belfast

Ciaran BarnesToday at 07:00

Loyalist paramilitaries are planning an arson campaign to prevent Irish language signage from being displayed on Belfast City Council buildings and vehicles.

In a briefing to Sunday Life yesterday, representatives of both the UVF and UDA warned of future violence, saying: “Loyalists will embark on a campaign of burning any council vans or centres displaying Irish language signage in order to make the Belfast City Council policy unworkable.”

The sinister threats come after a majority of councillors in City Hall endorsed a new draft Irish language policy that contains pledges to adopt dual signage at its facilities and bilingual logos.

Unionist councillors have objected to the plan, as have loyalist paramilitaries, with the latter threatening a campaign of violence to make it “unworkable”.

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Sunday Life understands that several council depots in unionist areas of Belfast where vehicles are stored will be targeted if Irish signage appears on the premises.

“They will be burned to the ground,” said a UVF source. “This isn’t something anyone in the loyalist community wants to see happen, but it will happen if the Irish language is forced upon us.

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“Many of the staff in these facilities are from a unionist background and they are also opposed to wearing uniforms or working in buildings with Irish language signs.”

UVF and UDA leaders say at the moment there is no plan to target leisure centres as they are seen as key community facilities, however, they have warned that could change.

“The council and the PSNI should not underestimate how real this threat is,” said a UDA source. ​

“It’ll be down to councillors now to work out how best to deal with this and reach a compromise.”

The PSNI is also understood to be aware of the UVF and UDA threats and has been briefed about possible violence.

Unionist councillors have been vocal in their opposition to the council’s new draft Irish language policy and will use a ‘call-in’ in a bid to have it reversed.

This is a rarely used method to have decisions reviewed.

TUV councillor and party deputy leader Ron McDowell said the Irish language is being “weaponised, politicised and forced on communities that don’t want it”.

He added: “There are huge areas of the city that don’t have an Irish population, don’t identify as Irish and why should we therefore have Irish thrust upon us?”

TUV deputy leader Ron McDowell

DUP leader and former Belfast Lord Mayor Gavin Robinson said: “If this is a shared city, we don’t stand in the way of anybody trying to engage their interest to speak Irish, but nor do we want it foisted upon the vast majority who have no interest or knowledge.”

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The Irish language proposals have the support of Sinn Fein, Alliance, the SDLP and the Green Party, whose councillors form a majority in the City Hall.

Sinn Fein councillor Natasha Brennan said the policy was “a historic moment for the city in terms of equality for the indigenous language within the city”.

DUP leader Gavin Robinson

She added that it followed best practice guidelines set out in the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

Alliance’s Michael Long also gave the proposals his seal of approval, saying it would cost ratepayers “not a penny more” to implement the policy.

Several councils throughout Northern Ireland already adopt dual language signage and logos on their uniforms, vehicles and facilities.

These include Derry City and Strabane Council, Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, and Newry, Mourne and Down District Council.

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I assumed this was a likely route - although the Sunday Lies has a habit of talking nonsense- especially when it says ‘the Sunday Lies understands….’

It is so silly of Council as this type of attack is so easy - endless opportunities because of the nature of council services eg they only need to drop a crude incendiary device into a wheelie bin, anywhere in Belfast, with a timer and that is a £200,000 bin lorry gone - so they don’t even need to upset unionist areas - an incendiary in a wheelie bin in west Belfast means it will be the falls road blocked all day with a burning bin lorry

Respect is the way forward

We still have plenty of terrorists on both sides, who are happy to terrorise.

I think the first minister said there was no alternative to sectarian murders!

I am saying there is an alternative to burning bin lorries (note no one harmed) but I am saying that an outcome of a reaction to the imposition of Irish language may lead some in the south to say that if there was ever a majority voting for a ui, that it might be sensible to learn from this (and the years before gfa) and decide that it would be a sensible compromise to ensure that ui included the same devolution for OWC that the ‘Brits’ bestowed upon it. Seems fair and sensible- do you not think?
remember this is a threat to burn bin lorries, not Protestants out for dinner in La Mon Hotel