Fountain Loyalist Protestant area Londonderry

UDA stronghold. Their kerb-stones and lampposts painted red, white and blue like the Union Jack, this walled off loyalist protestant enclave 'The Fountain’ is inside Derry’s city walls. It is a staunch unionist area, fiercely pro-Britain. Their representatives, the Democratic Unionist Party, founded by Ian Paisley in 1971, are presently in parliament in collusion with the conservative party, looking for a hard Brexit with a border between Northern Ireland and the South. The ten DUP votes gives the conservative party its majority in government. This is nothing new. During the ‘Troubles’ three decades of bloodshed, with Catholic Irish Republican Nationalists seeking to unit Ireland, the pro-British Protestant loyalists wanted to remain part of the United Kingdom.

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UDA stronghold. Their kerb-stones and lampposts painted red, white and blue like the Union Jack, this walled off loyalist protestant enclave 'The Fountain’ is inside Derry’s city walls. It is a staunch unionist area, fiercely pro-Britain. Their representatives, the Democratic Unionist Party, founded by Ian Paisley in 1971, are presently in parliament in collusion with the conservative party, looking for a hard Brexit with a border between Northern Ireland and the South. The ten DUP votes gives the conservative party its majority in government. This is nothing new. During the ‘Troubles’ three decades of bloodshed, with Catholic Irish Republican Nationalists seeking to unit Ireland, the pro-British Protestant loyalists wanted to remain part of the United Kingdom.