Far-right groups threaten to riot at London protests as Boris Johnson warned over language
06/09/2019
‘It’s time to f*** s*** up,’ extremists threaten after parliament moves to block no-deal Brexit.
Operation Yellowhammer: Government no-deal Brexit documents warn of food shortages and riots
11/09/2019
Ministers have been forced to publish details of concerns about public disorder and disruption to medicine and fuel supplies.
A senior cabinet minister told The Times that the country risked a “violent, popular uprising” if a second referendum overturned the result of the first one.
Labour claims that PM is aiming to invoke emergency powers using the Civil Contingencies Act.
The threat of mass violence over Brexit is a lie designed to frighten us – it simply won't happen
07/10/2019
MPs are being hit with genuine threats and abuse from individuals, and they must be taken seriously. But there is no sign that Leave voters are ready to mount a ‘civil war’ if Brexit is delayed again or stopped by a referendum.
Unionists criticised for ‘incendiary’ rhetoric as dozens of officers injured in days of unrest.
The disturbance in a Loyalist area of the city on Friday evening followed four successive nights of disturbances in the unionist Waterside area of Londonderry.
The Stormont Assembly is set to be recalled for an emergency debate following days of violence and disorder in parts of Northern Ireland.
It took an event unrelated to the Irish Sea border furore to set a match to simmering tensions.
Belfast violence: Douglas Ross condemns Northern Ireland violence amid grilling on post-Brexit trade rules
08/04/2021
DOUGLAS Ross has condemned the "shocking" further violence on the streets of Belfast as he was quizzed about post-Brexit trading arrangements that have created economic barriers between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.
Post-Brexit violence rocks Belfast for another night, threatening region's uneasy political balance
08/04/2021
Belfast, Northern Ireland — Rioters set a hijacked bus on fire and hurled gasoline bombs at police in Belfast in at least the fourth night of serious violence in a week in Northern Ireland, where Brexit has unsettled an uneasy political balance.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced calls to bring the parties together for talks after a bus was hijacked and torched in Belfast.
Kate Hoey reminded of Brexit promises as she claims Protocol ‘destabilised Northern Ireland’
08/04/2021
"Northern Ireland has much to gain from Brexit," Hoey proclaimed in 2016, a month before the referendum.
For British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, rioting on the streets in Northern Ireland is a reminder that once the pandemic fades, the U.K. will have to face up to the long-term consequences of Brexit.
Simmering tensions over Brexit and allegations of ‘two-tier policing’ spark return of disturbing scenes many hoped were gone forever
Authorities in Northern Ireland sought to restore calm Thursday after Protestant and Catholic youths in Belfast hurled bricks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at police and each other. It was the worst mayhem in a week of street violence in the region, where Britain’s exit from the European Union has unsettled an uneasy political balance.
The renewed tension in Northern Ireland could have far-reaching implications for the future of the United Kingdom - and post-Brexit relations with the EU.
Youths from the loyalist community in Northern Ireland continue violent protests against the UK government's Brexit policy, which they fear will lead to unity with the Irish Republic.
This week’s violence is an ominous sign that leaving the EU took a wrecking ball to the Good Friday agreement.
Philip Rycroft says PM’s ‘muscular brand of unionism’ has deepened divisions between four nations.
Law enforcement uses water cannons to disperse protesters; pro-Ireland demonstrators and UK supporters square off, recalling past sectarian conflict.
Pro-British loyalist militants in Northern Ireland said on Friday there had been a "spectacular collective failure" to understand their anger over Brexit and other issues as there was some respite in street clashes following a week of riots.
Pro-British loyalist militants in Northern Ireland said on Friday there had been a "spectacular collective failure" to understand their anger over Brexit and other issues as there was some respite in street clashes following a week of riots.
Molotov cocktails and barricades have returned to Northern Ireland. The conflict there is 4 centuries old. But Brexit is the new reason why the situation has reached the boiling point in what had been an era of peace.
IT should give nobody any satisfaction to say of the current deeply troubling disorder in Northern Ireland that it was, alas, not only utterly predictable, but constantly predicted.