Ursula Meighan Chair of the Workers Party Women’s Committee has condemned those who Handed out Knuckle Dusters at an Anti-Immigrant rally on Saturday at Belfast City Hall.
Ms Meighan said it is really despicable that this far right group are mimicking the pink ladies ladies Uk group. The term Pink Ladies in Northern Ireland is usually synonymous with those who wear the pink ribbons and raise money for cancer research. Not a group who have their foundations in far right ideology and hatred. The fact that the knuckle dusters they handed out were pink and shaped like cats, does not make them any less sinister or threatening. Women have been arrested for placing stickers on ATMs and dragged into police land rovers for wearing Palestine Action T shirts.
Ms Meighan continued it is clear that this rally was staged to spread the message of misinformation, downright lies, and hatred against migrants especially those of colour and have a different religion from theirs. These actions should be condemned by all in our society, bigotry and intolerance in all its forms must be called out by our politicians, church leaders, and civic leaders.
The message of hatred spewed by these far right groups poison the minds of our children and bring nothing but shame on our communities. Ms Meighan ended by saying their message about Ballymena was chilling given the racist hate fest that took place there earlier in the year. It is now time for our political institutions to tackle this issue and these far right groups once and for all.