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Dixie Elliot ✊"The Orange State is gone and it's not coming back." - Mary Lou McDonald 2019.


It has gone nowhere!!
 
The fact that the people of the Garvaghy Road still have to face down bigots who are intent on marching where they are not wanted is proof that the so called GFA had nothing to do with peace and was entirely about appeasement.
 
Appeasing bigots whose culture is based entirely on the hatred of everything Irish, and one of Unionist domination.

Political policing is still very much a fact of life for Nationalists in the North, yet the silence from the so called political representatives, including those who sit on policing boards is damning evidence that we were and continue to be sold lie upon lie.

And what is worst of all is that sectarian division still gets the politicians on both sides elected despite the fact that they have changed nothing for those people who constantly vote for them.
 
The so called political representatives who know that they don't have to do anything but turn up at the polling booths during each election and usher their voters inside like sheep to the slaughter.

The so called political representatives who have been forced to join the residents of the Garvaghy Road in an attempt to prevent something they had told them was a thing of the past.
 
The so called political representatives who insist in telling us that we are in a better place today despite the fact we clearly see that nothing has changed.

Yet they insist on asking what the alternative is.
 
The alternative is to walk away from Stormont where Carson's statue and his sectarian politics still dominates the skyline.

Thomas Dixie Elliot is a Derry artist and a former H Block Blanketman.
Follow Dixie Elliot on Twitter @IsMise_Dixie

The Orange State

Dixie Elliot ✊"The Orange State is gone and it's not coming back." - Mary Lou McDonald 2019.


It has gone nowhere!!
 
The fact that the people of the Garvaghy Road still have to face down bigots who are intent on marching where they are not wanted is proof that the so called GFA had nothing to do with peace and was entirely about appeasement.
 
Appeasing bigots whose culture is based entirely on the hatred of everything Irish, and one of Unionist domination.

Political policing is still very much a fact of life for Nationalists in the North, yet the silence from the so called political representatives, including those who sit on policing boards is damning evidence that we were and continue to be sold lie upon lie.

And what is worst of all is that sectarian division still gets the politicians on both sides elected despite the fact that they have changed nothing for those people who constantly vote for them.
 
The so called political representatives who know that they don't have to do anything but turn up at the polling booths during each election and usher their voters inside like sheep to the slaughter.

The so called political representatives who have been forced to join the residents of the Garvaghy Road in an attempt to prevent something they had told them was a thing of the past.
 
The so called political representatives who insist in telling us that we are in a better place today despite the fact we clearly see that nothing has changed.

Yet they insist on asking what the alternative is.
 
The alternative is to walk away from Stormont where Carson's statue and his sectarian politics still dominates the skyline.

Thomas Dixie Elliot is a Derry artist and a former H Block Blanketman.
Follow Dixie Elliot on Twitter @IsMise_Dixie

Dixie Elliot Drumcree/Garvaghy Road Mary Lou McDonald Orange Marches Orange State

1 comment:

  1. Caoimhin O'Muraile4:48 PM, September 27, 2026

    Watching the scenes on the Garvaghy Road where for 28 years the bigots have apparently not had the inkling to March, they suddenly, like a flea laying dormant, spring into action. The truth is they, unlike the flea, we're never dormant and have never retreated from their 'supremacy' position.
    An Orange Order march, albeit reduced in number, down the Garvaghy Road is akin to the BNP applying for, and being granted, permission for some of their number to March down Atlantic Road (the Front Line) in Brixton. Fascist organisations like the BNP would not be welcome anymore than the equally fascist Orange Order are on the Garvaghy Road.

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