It is worth looking at Braverman’s precise words to appreciate the depth of her ignorance of Northern Ireland realities
Northern Irish loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader Ian Paisley A useful parallel can be made between the situation in Northern Ireland in the past and England at present, though it is one unlikely to occur to Braverman. But reading her article
Fortunately there are significant differences between the Royal Ulster Constabulary response to protest marches in the 1960s, long before the Good Friday Agreement, and that of the police in London this coming weekend. The RUC actually did then what Braverman is demanding the Metropolitan Police do today. On 5 October 1968, a banned civil rights march took place in Derry and was baton-charged by the RUC, who beat up marchers numbering about 400, in front of the television cameras.
The group best known in Northern Ireland for holding marches to establish territorial rights is the hard core unionist Orange Order, though these do not happen very much these days. Confrontations used to occur mostly because the Order tried to march through districts once unionist but now nationalist, and were regularly banned from doing so by the authorities.
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