Alliance ‘disappointed’ by police response to UVF flags

Charlie McCready:

Mr Hanvey should get himself a ladder. I would support him. But it is very easy to pass the buck of responsibility to the police. The police are not steeplejacks.

Rob O’Neill: Would you also support him when his life would likely be threatened then by the UVF, just as they threatened the contractors who were tasked with removing dangerous bonfire materials? Henk Wissink: Is that the imaginary threats that always seem to come from the UVF?

Charlie McCready: His life wouldn’t be the first one endangered when standing up against evil thugs. The police he is criticising stand up and put their lives on the line 24/7, whether it is UVF or IRA. They are much the same: psychopaths.

Francis Massey: Pity Alliance does not ask for the removal of republican flags and illegal memorials and murals.

Paul Magee: No chance of that happening. Well snuggled-up to the Shinners.

Stephen Williamson: Alliance should check up on legislation regarding flags, rather than blandly blaming the police over the flags issue. If it’s not their responsibility, it’s not their responsibility.

John Flanders:

So, what would Alliance have the police do? It’s not the responsibility of anyone bar those who own what they’re on. Cops can only keep the peace. After that, what? Guard the lamp-posts to make sure they don’t go back up? Wonder what Alliance would actually think of the PSNI being used to guard lamp-posts? Because that, in essence, is what they’re asking them to do.

Paul Baxter: Sure go out and take the flags down yourself. And stop passing the buck onto someone else.

David Culbertson: Why don’t they get them to take the foreign flags down in Coleraine? It’s a disgrace.

Stephen Hopkins: This is the PSNI stance on most crime: it’ll only cause trouble, so just ignore it. Oh, look, a car with no insurance. That should be a non-confrontational arrest.