Nationalists and unionists team up in Belfast to protest mass immigration

It appears UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has managed to do what many thought impossible and unite Ireland - in hating him. The question of whether Northern Ireland should join the Republic of Ireland or remain in the United Kingdom, mixed up with the divide between Catholicism and Protestantism, saw a brutal and protracted resistance movement that killed thousands and tore apart families, communities and a nation. And in a moment few in the UK ever thought they would see, Unionists and Nationalists teamed up to protest the British government over the migrant crisis.

The weekend brought with it the unlikely scene of protesters from both sides of the Irish political divide teaming up to rally against uncontrolled mass immigration to the UK. Footage from a protest in Belfast shows protesters carrying Irish and Northern Irish flags marching side by side, their arms around each other, as part of the wider UK protests following the murder of three children by a Rwandan man in the town of Southport. The Republic of Ireland has had its own, long-running movement against mass immigration and migrant crime, with riots occurring in Dublin last year after an Algerian migrant stabbed three children and a care worker.