In the 1960s the travel broadcaster Alan Whicker came to the Six Counties to make a series of programs on life in the artificially created statelet.
It didn’t end well:
In 1959, the popular broadcaster Alan Whicker came to Northern Ireland to make a series of short programmes. The result, broadcast on the BBC’s Tonight programme, bore Whicker’s trademark style, peeking behind the curtain at the quotidian reality of ordinary life. There were shots of Belfast bars, ‘No Pope’ graffiti and armed police.
Prime minister Terence O’Neill was furious, expressing “concern and indignation” at the “unbalanced” picture portrayed by Whicker’s film in a statement read out in the Northern Irish senate. A loyalist crowd at a football match attacked a BBC camera crew.
The bottom line was that the people who ran the Six Counties for all that they postured about being “Bradaish” didn’t want people in Britain to know what they were really like.
A decade after Whicker attempts to do his job in that part of the United Kingdom; the British government had to send in the British Army to restore order in that failed police statelet.
Initially, the military was under the control of the Stormont government, and that would lead to Internment in 1971 and Bloody Sunday in 1972.
The chaps in London had seen enough by then and imposed Direct Rule on the “Pravince”.
One of the last government ministers in the was John Taylor, now Lord Kilclooney.
Back in 1972, he was Minister for Home Affairs in the Stormont Government.
Essentially, he was the head of the interior ministry of a police state.
The noble Lord is in the news this week because of how he referred to Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris.
Taylor has previous for this.
In 2018 he referred to Leo Varadkar, who was then the Taoiseach, as a “typical Indian”.
This piece by Danny Morrison from 2018 does not miss.
In the 1990s Taylor speculated that the killing of Catholics in the Six Counties might be “helpful”.
What was different about his racist comment about Vice President-Elect Harris is that it travelled across the Pond and not just to Irish America.
In a hole, the noble Lord decided to dig deeper.
In the United States, the folks that I regularly speak to were appalled but not surprised.
They immediately put Taylor into the klan category.
Correct!
I have written here recently about the ideological the commonality between racists in the USA and the subculture that is in the northeast of this country in Fair Caledonia.
We know them by their noise.
The fear among progressives in the USA that I am in contact with is that Trump, by refusing to concede the election, is constructing a narrative that will energise fascist militias like the Proud Boys.
Moreover, this allows the incumbent in the White House to present a Dolchstoßlegende fantasy to his embryonic SA on the streets of small-town America.
During a Presidential debate with Biden President Trump was challenged by the anchor to instruct the Proud Boys to “stand down”.
He refused and instead said, “Proud Boys — Stand back, and stand by…”
During the days of the Orange State, the nationalist minority knew that the men in Stormont had a dog whistle to instruct a Loyalist mob.
In his long career, Alan Whicker travelled to many bizarre places, but I would wager none were as strange as the statelet that John Taylor served as head of the secret police.
I will leave the last word on this to my friend and comrade over the mountain in Gaoth Dobhair.
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Children forcibly removed from their parents by the Church of Scotland and sent to live with Native Canadians and Aborigines in Australia
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/blogs/journalist-and-human-rights/church-scotland-persecuted-travellers
https://youtu.be/4ZU-NdmSmT0
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BBC NEWS 24, last ten minutes, FA Chairman Greg Clarke resigns over use of inappropriate and outdated language. BBC newsreader states a verbal warning that the interview contains outdated and wrongful language.
Clarke apologizes on camera saying he used ‘person of colour’ for many years but it is inappropriate.
The term requires a BBC warning before being said on tv. Even during an apology for saying it.
No one can defend this term by referencing long dead people or one or two others (even Blacks) living in error on the subject.
You are incorrect in your characterisation of the report.
Now, I KNOW that you’re a troll.
Bye bye.
The chairman of the Football Association has resigned after using the term “coloured” to describe footballers from different ethnic backgrounds.
https://news.sky.com/story/fa-chairman-greg-clarke-resigns-after-using-term-coloured-12129420
The Proud Boys are fascist?
Why would we concede? The biased media doesn’t get to call elections. Remember 2000. Trump is the President and still will be when the real ballots are counted. For 4 years the leftist media has screamed about Russian interference but this election with video evidence of fraud is unquestionable? No this we will fight. Truth shall prevail
NURSE!
Video evidence??
Oh dear you need to smash your clay of delusion
When Adolf backed Wilkie against FDR !! Truth !
Why would a left leaning Media be highlighting any supposed interference by Russia?
Either the Earth has spun on its axis or you have suffered a recent head injury.
How right you are Rob. The media, biased or otherwise doesn’t get to call the elections, the voters do and have done. Trump has had his 15 minutes of fame (or should that be infamy?) and has now been called out by the electorate. There’s plenty of time for Trump to manufacture ‘evidence’ of fraud, after all he already told us before voting got under way but was still prepared to stand in the ‘corrupt’ poll. If he had won the race we would have heard nothing more about voter fraud.
Trump’s reluctance to concede and the behaviour of his desperate, power-grabbing family is an embarrassment to his country and the attempts to call his rabid right-wing minions to arms is reprehensible.
Truth has prevailed, Trump just won’t accept it. HH
And if there is evidence of Electoral fraud in these tight States what then?
You seem awfully quick to dismiss these claims despite there being many people coming forward stating that there were irregularities taking place.
Whether you like Trump or not surely these things must be investigated before anyone takes the high moral ground?
Or does the high moral ground only belong to those who appear to have won?
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Everyone of Trump’s cases of alleged fraud have been tossed out of court for being without evidence.
The latest ones appear to be querying less than 200 votes in a state Biden won by about 100 times that and there are other 1% challenges elsewhere.
Clearly these are not credible challenges to the veracity of the result and simply seek to sow confusion for antidemocratic purposes.
This is straight out of conspiracy theory nuttery, climate change denial etc ie a lot of noise but zero credible evidence.
There is voter fraud in the USA and it manifests itself it suppression of registrations of millions of mainly poor and minority voters.
This voter fraud has been successfully fought and is being fought by organisations like the ACLU, SPLC etc.
If anyone pushes the Trump voter fraud tactic, ask them what they’ve done to fight the proven voter suppression.
If the answer is nothing then they’re not interested in voter fraud but instead they support the suppression of votes that don’t support their candidate.