Drapeau de l'Union britannique vole Bushmills, affiche dénonce PSNI comme détruisant la communauté loyaliste et depuis le 4 novembre 2001, dans la poche du Sinn Fein, BT57 8QD
3648 x 4720 px | 30,9 x 40 cm | 12,2 x 15,7 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
22 juin 2023
Lieu:
108 Main St, Bushmills, Northern Ireland, UK, BT57 8QD
Informations supplémentaires:
Unionist boycott ‘will not alter police reform’ - more at https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30021664.html Police reform in Northern Ireland will not be altered if unionists boycott the board overseeing the changes, the British Government insisted today. A Northern Ireland Office spokesman rejected claims from the anti-Good Friday Agreement Democratic Unionists that unionists could secure a better policing plan if they united and opposed the current proposals. As the Rev Ian Paisley’s party met at Stormont to consider its response to the Government’s plan, the NIO said the package was ’’non-negotiable’’. ’’The Government’s position was spelt out very clearly by the Secretary of State on Tuesday, ’’ a spokesman said. ’’The implementation plan is non-negotiable. No rethink will take place. This is the plan.’’ The NIO spokesman was responding to DUP deputy leader Peter Robinson’s claim that if David Trimble’s Ulster Unionists agreed to join them in withholding support for the plan, the reforms could not go ahead. Signalling his party would not take its seats on the Policing Board if the UUP did not nominate representatives, he claimed: ‘‘At the meeting we held recently with John Reid, he indicated the Government could not proceed with the plan if he could not get, on the one hand the support of either the SDLP, Sinn Fein or both, and on the other, the UUP, DUP or both. ‘‘That was the criteria operated the last time around. The Government’s plans were stopped because neither the SDLP nor Sinn Fein would support it and as a result the reforms were made much more acceptable to nationalists in the SDLP. ‘‘The logical argument, therefore, is if unionists do not support this implementation plan, then it cannot succeed. The Government will have to amend it to make it more acceptable to unionists and go back to negotiations.
