THE WORKERS' PARTY OF IRELAND

Flags debacle pitiful says Lowry

Poverty and inequality ignored while politicians squabble about flags and emblems

The Workers’ Party has described last night’s violent scenes outside Belfast City Hall and the intemperate outbursts in the council chamber on the issue of which flags should be flown from the building as obscene

 

"The pitiful sight of thousands of people protesting outside Belfast City Hall about flags is matched only by a chamber full of councillors debating it inside", Workers Party Belfast Chairman John Lowry has said.

 

"The real questions that must be asked about this tribal debacle are the ones that Sinn Fein and DUP voters in particular must ask of themselves”

While jobs are being lost, prices rising, homes being re-possessed, child poverty increasing and thousands of people across the city facing a daily 'eat or heat' dilemma, Councillors in Belfast are using flags and emblems as a smokescreen for their failure to even address these issues”.

 

“Sinn Fein and DUP supporters must now ask themselves "Do I really want to vote for a party that is happy to ignore social and economic realities to secure their own tribal positions?”,  concluded Mr Lowry.

Issued 4th December 2012

Peace, Work, Democracy & Class Politics