Lesson's of yesterday have nt been learnt?
Friday 20th January 2006Twice as many Catholics as Protestants are employed working for cross-border bodies in Northern Ireland, it has emerged.
The statistic has been described as proof of the "blatantly pro-nationalist, antiunionist agenda of the whole North-South apparatus" by Lord Laird of Artigarvan.
The Ulster Unionist peer was provided with the employment figures by the Government, in answer to a parliamentary question.
The Northern Ireland population is roughly 57 per cent Protestant and 43 per cent Catholic.
However, of the 209 people employed by North-South Implementation Bodies in the Province, 131 are Catholics, 69 Protestant and nine non-determined.
Lord Laird said: "I, and many other unionists, did not sign up to the Belfast Agreement for full-scale discrimination against my community.
This is all part of a grand republican agenda - a pro-Irish agenda.
"As unionists, we have for years been demonised as a community, accused of being anti-Catholic and taken to task on equality.
"We have been the victims of a nationalist propaganda campaign which has said unionists are persecutors and nationalists are victims.
"Republicans and nationalists would have the world believe they are non-sectarian guardians of equality.
"Well, here is the evidence in black and white of the real, cloak-and-dagger nationalist agenda."
Lord Laird said he would be pursuing the issue with the Government and said the north-south bodies should be the subject of an Equality Commission review.
He also claimed that the figures told unionists what they always knew: "Our community will never be welcome or fairly treated in Ireland".
Now this come's as no suprise as i have seen how unionist's are precived all over the world. Wrongly might i add ,yes our forefather's did some bad thing but so did the republic's to protestants. So again are we doomed to repeat history ? It seems so