Suella Braverman has a point about Northern Ireland

Suella Braverman’s description of pro-Palestinian protests as being ‘disturbingly reminiscent of Ulster’ has given the Province’s political class yet another reason – not that they need one – to chunter on at length. 

The professionally po-faced, from SDLP leader Colum Eastwood to Stephen Farry of the Alliance Party, dutifully trod the path to X/ Twitter, or whichever broadcasting studio would take them, to intone about how off piste the Home Secretary had gone. They said Braverman’s remarks showed how ignorant about the reality on the ground in Northern Ireland she was. 

For all the claims the Home Secretary doesn’t know what she’s talking about when it comes to Northern Ireland, she may well have a point. 

After all, in the past few months we have seen the usual pageantry of portly, part-time paramilitaries turning up in Londonderry which led to a riot at Easter.