Keir Starmer: open mouth, insert… well, jackboot, really.

Is Labour leader Keir Starmer deliberately trying to stir up violence in Northern Ireland?

He has told an interviewer that, if a referendum were called on whether NI should rejoin the Irish Republic, he would campaign with Ulster Unionism against Irish Unity.

If this happened at a time when he was prime minister (unlikely, I know) this would contradict the Good Friday Agreement:

In any case, Starmer’s decision to say this could not possibly have come at a worse time. He said it just days before July 12, otherwise known as the Glorious Twelfth or Orangemen’s Day – the Ulster Protestant celebration of William of Orange’s victory at the Battle of the Boyne that began Protestant Ascendancy in the province.

According to our good and reliable friends, Wikipedia, “On and around the Twelfth, large parades are held by the Orange Order and Ulster loyalist marching bands, streets are bedecked with British flags and bunting, and large towering bonfires are lit.

“The Twelfth has been accompanied by violence since its beginning.”

This apparent endorsement of Protestant supremacy by a Labour leader is likely to encourage the more incendiary elements of the Protestant population. Who knows what could happen as a result?

It was an astonishingly irresponsible statement for Starmer to make.

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