Not that catholic communities will be immune to an anti-immigrant turn, though these scenes are a lot less likely there for obvious reasons. I don't like the framing of Lynch's post, nor that of the IRSP statement; but without endorsing either they give a sense of how the ground might start to shift
All those unrepentant neighbours proudly recalling events.
"One neighbour said that specific houses where ethnic minority families lived had been targeted, and that Catholics had come to the largely loyalist area to join in the violence. “That’s a first,” he said."
Northern Irish Unionists bringing back pogroms
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Interesting that the Reform vote is stable across Makerfield by-election polls, but the Labour vote varies quite a lot