Loyalist areas Londonderry

Lincoln Court and Auglish Court Loyalist areas Londonderry. Many loyalist murals about the British Military machine, with images depicting and glorifying destroyers, tanks and other weapons of war are on display. red, white and blue for the Union Jack. 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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Lincoln Court and Auglish Court Loyalist areas Londonderry. Many loyalist murals about the British Military machine, with images depicting and glorifying destroyers, tanks and other weapons of war are on display. red, white and blue for the Union Jack. 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.