As Stormont politicians meet, Northern Ireland violence escalates
Northern Ireland has now endured more than a week of violence related to Boris Johnson’s duff Brexit deal.
Johnson himself has said the violence in West Belfast “deeply concerned” him. He was right – it did, and it should; he is directly responsible for it.
He was told his decision to put a customs border in the middle of the Irish Sea would tear up the Good Friday Agreement, triggering an end to the NI peace process and a return to violence – and he did it anyway.
Northern Ireland doesn’t have a single Conservative member of Parliament; nobody in the province voted to be governed by Johnson (or at least, nobody worth mentioning).
The province’s pro-Brexit Democratic Unionist Party propped up former prime minister Theresa May, and could therefore be said to have paved the way for him. It holds power in the Stormont assembly so This Writer wonders what its representatives have to say for themselves.
Last night alone, police officers were attacked, petrol bombs were thrown and a bus was burnt.
Here’s how it looked:
Bus then set on fire ….@rtenews pic.twitter.com/MjYoXTRJID
— Vincent Kearney (@vincekearney) April 7, 2021
https://twitter.com/qnewsdesk/status/1379940372936339458
Police believe paramilitary groups were involved in incidents such as one in which several hundred people on each side were throwing petrol bombs in both directions in the loyalist Shankill Road and the nationalist Springfield Road.
The Shankill Road and Springfield Road in west Belfast are now added to the list that includes Newtownabbey, Carrickfergus, Ballymena and the Waterside area of Londonderry.
The BBC’s report editorialised:
The longer it goes on, the harder it will be to stop.
While it is a comment that should not have been made by a news reporter, This Writer tends to agree with whoever wrote it.
Sadly, with Boris Johnson running the country, he will undoubtedly dither, delay, take a holiday, and probably even hide in a fridge before taking any decisions – and by the time he does, it will probably be too late.
And, as This Site stated yesterday, this is what he wanted. He had been warned repeatedly that it would happen but he did nothing. We have to draw the obvious conclusion from that.
Source: Belfast: Emergency Stormont meeting after night of violence – BBC News
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