When will it finally sink in with the press and others that Loyalism is not for sale?
A Sunday tabloid has once again printed headlines based on innuendo, hearsay and outright fiction. The latest 'exclusive' purporting to be respectable journalism refers to £10 million CIT funding. This time, bizarrely alleging the funding is a pay off package to stop recent civil disturbances in reaction to the implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol and two-tiered Policing and Justice. This is just another in a long line of erroneous and mischievous 'pay off' stories from the same journalistic source over much needed and beneficial community funding. Funding which was agreed as far back as 2015! It is worth noting it was the same origin of credible journalism which recently reported 'security sources' informed them that a well known supergrass was dead.
Instead of taking what we read at face value as the truth (which should be a cornerstone of journalism), especially in the current climate, the unionist community should look past the duplicitous headlines and untruths to reveal the true intent which belies an anti-unionist and loyalist agenda. Care must also be taken when reading recent outbursts on PUL social media pages and groups by those who promote these untruths in order to try to discredit genuine loyalists by further pushing this republicanism benefiting Anti-British media agenda, what strange bedfellows they make.
Nationalist driven agenda media, as well as those actors who may 'plant' stories in the press with the intention of threatening to choke loyalist communities of resources should come to terms with the simple, honest facts:
Opposition to the Northern Ireland Protocol cannot be fixed with money.
Two-tiered Policing and Justice cannot be fixed with money.
Loyalism is not, and never will be for sale.
