Far-Right to March - English Gang to Visit Whitewell Flashpoint

national | miscellaneous | news report Friday November 01, 2002 17:06 by IMC Dalek

North Belfast News 1 November 2002 Far-Right to March - English Gang to Visit Whitewell Flashpoint By Colm Heatley A gang of far-right loonies are planning a trip to North Belfast to coincide with Remembrance Sunday commemorations next week.

North Belfast News
1 November 2002

Far-Right to March - English Gang to Visit Whitewell Flashpoint
By Colm Heatley

A gang of far-right loonies are planning a trip to North Belfast to
coincide with Remembrance Sunday commemorations next week.

The British Ulster Alliance held a 'Loyalist Day of Action' in London
last month and have posted details of their 'North Belfast trip' to
members.

And the North Belfast News can reveal that the England-based gang
will be visiting the notorious Whitewell Road flashpoint.

The trip has heightened fears of renewed riots in the area.

When English Neo-Nazis visited North Belfast this time last year they
became involved in rioting on the Limestone Road.

But Newtownabbey SDLP councillor and World War II veteran Tommy
McTeague has warned all far right groups to stay away from North
Belfast.

"We don't need these people coming over to North Belfast, we have
enough problems of our own.

"We want to get rid of the loonie bins in our society not import them
from England.

"I would have to wonder why these people want to commemorate
Remembrance Sunday anyway.

"I fought in World War II and as a veteran of that war I can say that
I do not want these people over her commemorating the war dead."

And Tommy McTeague says it is ironic that a group with links to anti-
Jewish organisations will be staying in an area festooned with
Israeli flags.

"Some of these people don't like Jews but they will be running
around in a place that has Israeli flags all over the place.

"It just shows that they are not even interested in politics as such,
just spreading hatred.

"They are not interested in getting on with people from the other
side of the fence.

"It is all about division and hatred and we just don't want that.
I think these people have nothing to offer Belfast."

The British Ulster Alliance boasts of links to groups who call for
the deportation of Jews and Muslims who live in England.

And many messages posted on its official website call for Catholics
to be killed while praising the actions of the UDA.

Bizarrely the website even has a memorial dedicated to a dead
UDA 'volunteer' from the organisation's previously unheard of 'London
Brigade'.