Letter: The Protestant community - too comfortable and too apathetic - is in freefall ... it needs a prophet to raise it from the dead

Ulster needs to waken up, but I fear it may be too late for that.

Unionism, betrayed by Britain, continues in denial: we are too comfortable, and too apathetic to change.

We continue to vote for the same people, the same parties, and the same failures. They say insanity is continuing to do the same thing and expecting different results, we are the perfect example of that.

We continue to turn out on the Twelfth and Scarva every year, unless you’re an Alliance voter, and fool ourselves nothing has changed.

When it’s over, we return to the hearth and watch the football, it’s the new religion, and has a bigger following.

Its disciples even meet on the Lord’s Day, to baptise their children into the cult, and worship at that shrine; they have taken the knee!

We are shameless, and our fathers must look down and weep.

If our politicians, our churches, and the Loyal Orders bother to speak out, the tone is lowered to such an extent, it’s ignored; it’s almost apologetic.

The Protestant community is in freefall and we are freeloading on what our fathers have built, but that jar of oil has run out, and we have neither the will nor the means to replace it.

We need an Elijah and we don’t have one, in church or state. Our pulpits are filled with preachers and teachers – we need teaching, but we need prophets more, and we don’t have them. Prophets can read the signs of the times and know what to do.

London and New York have fallen and a foreign flag raised at City Hall, and the Protestant community doesn’t get it; they can’t read!

We need a leader, and if King Billy comes back I’ll supply the white horse.

If we don’t wise up, and firm up, our future and the future of our children will be taken out of our hands.

The enemy at the gates has now entered the city, and dictates the message, you can read it on the street signs; given time you will interpret and understand. Your children will learn it at school.

Jim Allister is, by far, the best politician we have; but we need a leader! In a similar situation God raised up David, only a boy, mocked and despised, but he slew the giant, and put the enemy to flight.

There is a message here for those in the community, wise enough – and wisdom is innate – and willing enough, to read it; the old order has failed and times have changed.

Jim Allister can strike a raw nerve and lead us to the tomb where the Protestant community is buried; but it will take a prophet to raise it from the dead!

Clive Maxwell, Bleary