Jim Allister Shows His True Colours - It Was Never About The NI Protocol! 

Poor Jim, howling at the moon, lamenting the tide not listening to his command to reverse its natural order.

JA belongs in a bygone era of bitterness and division. Time waits for no man. The world has moved on and he’s yesterday’s news now.

In my opinion Michelle O'Neil will be a good First Minister and work for everyone. If this happens it will badly effect the positions of the haters on both sides . I really hope she succeeds.

I remember being in NI during the troubles. It was a nightmare. My brother-in-law and sister where in the forces at the time. No one wants to go back to that except these angry orange men and women.

Why bother trying to build a meaningful future, when it's so much easier to caustically wallow about the past? 😖

Jim Allister does not care a bit about the people of NI, Nationalist or Unionist. It’s all about Self preservation and the maintenance of a platform for his super ego. No doubt he will be given expansive exposure on the Nolan Show. The BBC needs to decide itself which side of history it is on, peace and progress or continuing chaos and decline.

As an NI business man, i stopped being a unionist because of their Brexit stance - a crude attempt to force a hard border in Ireland. If you look at the economic numbers, ROI is surging ahead of the UK, while NI remains a stagnant backwater of a stagnant UK economy

A dinosaur of the past. A pitiful sight. Thankfully 99% of people in NI agree

What does this relic think the 12th is? NI was a gerrymandered state to protect unionists by Lloyd George. unionists need to get on board and build a new Ireland

Sammy Wilson admitted it as well. But he didn’t have the backbone to attack Donaldson . He blamed Sunak for conning the DUP again. If the executive didn’t start, the DUP faced having another election, where they would be swept away entirely. Donaldson hopes working in the executive will return some credibility to the party before the next planned election.

Jim Alastair would like to go back to the time before the troubles. The wretched lives that nationalist people lived under towering Unionism during that era must never be forgotten.

I hope Jim Allister and many like him live long enough to see Ireland reunify!

a racist through and through........a bully boy

There was always going to be winners and losers as we move forward in peace and reconciliation.Jim has nothing to offer.

so much hate - life must be unbearable when you have such deep seated hate. Day in day out - all your life is just all about your hate and you never move on.

Thankfully, the likes of Alllister are now the minority.

So, democracy only countrs when your candidates win?

Excellent analysis Max. See him cherry picking atrocities to gloss over the savagery on both sides. He wants to go back to this?

After a two year respite, I'd forgotten just how much loyalist leaders can sound like temperance preachers. Drink is the devil's temptation has been replaced with reunification is the devil's temptation. What a sad, sad man.

There was a time when I thought there would never be peace in Northern Ireland. I'm glad I've been proven wrong. I don't want to see the horrors in the 70s and 80s again on the news. I'm not going to say it's easy for everybody involved, but all have to recognise relations have improved, and no one should want to push back to the violence of yesteryear. It's time to move on.

The hypocrisy of Allister proudly celebrating an old battle every year to commemorate the killing of Irish Catholics. The divided society was a legacy of the long shadow of the Divide & Rule policy of the English hierarchy. There was a time in Ireland when it was "no more sin to kill an Irishman than a dog or any other brute". They have no problem celebrating the British Army who shot innocent children on their own streets. The Irish government parties of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil also came from a split in the IRA

It was all about the unionists wasting as much time as possible so that Sinn Fein wouldnt have enough time to improve peoples lives in NI 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Jims parents came from a foreign land! Co. Monaghan.😂😅😊

Max we need to give these people some space, they now have the task of handing the baton of peace and shared ownership of the North. These bitter old men are lost forever in the past there is no hope for them, the vast majority of the people of the North simply want to get on with life for themselves and their children.

It must be very difficult for people like this dinosaur to understand the world keeps turning even though he wants to stop it and just wallow in the past. As I said before many times the loyalist considered Northern Ireland to be their playground they're not prepared to share it.

The people voted in a democratic election, people voted and made Sinn Fein the largest party.

Hatred - drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

It's so nice that this man has lived long enough to see Sinn Fein take power in the north.

The surest way to a united Ireland is for the SinnFein First Minister to do an effective job of running the Administration thus destroying the IRA boogeyman with which the DUP et al have terrified their voters for generations.

If Jim is so upset he should quit parliament and do something else instead.😂😂😂😂😂

The acronym for the DUP: Don't Understand Politics. It has always been about Unionism. Personally I shall never forgive them for Brexit and acceptance of Conservative government money to accept the deal back in 2018.

Jim forgot to mention the many Catholics murdered by loyalist paramilitaries, the shankill butchers, the glennane gang, the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, bloody Sunday. Have they all slipped your mind Jim? Very selective in your condemnation Jim.

The core problem is DUP bitterness, and hatred. Listening to bitter Jim, you would think that the IRA, was the only terrorist group in Northern Ireland.

If you can't let go of the past How can you prepare for the future

Some people will never move on because there hearts are full of hatred

Michelle O Neil will be a fantastic First Minister ! ❤

Jim is the living embodiment of why we must leave the past in the past and never look back.....

The protocol may feel uncomfortable for unionists, due to the alignment with the EU and checks. But the other side is Northern Ireland, under the protocol had great access to both markets, as they voted in 2016. Now I wonder if the UK will try to smuggle into the EU via Northern Ireland and cause economic harm that then leads to checks between both Irelands and political tensions. The Unionists should have been upfront that they don't respecet real democracy at the ballot box. Now from my experience of living in Northern Ireland during the troubles, it felt remote to what many called the mainland. That the polticial needs differ much more than say mine do now in Wales from England (and they are big differences already). So to not have their assembly for so long, is disgusting. It means they have been in limbo ontop of the near 14 yrs of Tory hell dragging us all backwards in Westminster.

"As I walked out the door toward the gate that woukd lead to my freedom, i knew if i didn't leave my bitterness and hatredbehind, I'd still be in prison." Nelson Mandela

"No Surrender!" Rants for five minutes then surrenders.

The man from Co Monaghan. Hard to believe this man is a barrister. Note the small b.

as an outsider from Canada thanks for putting things like this online for world citizens to see as well as your local political scene followers

Where was your democracy in1960 when people were just looking for normal human right jim

The way to a true and lasting peace is to speak to your enemies.

Said it yesterday Jim allister is not interested in democracy unless he’s on the winning side. It’s why he ignores the NI majority on brexit, he prefers the “Uk” as whole democracy his side won. Now back in NI he doesn’t think the democratically elected majority should get the FM job, because it’s not his side who won

With 'childer' like this great example,' our kith &kin '!......a United Ireland IS a reality....they will keep throwing their rattleys out of the pram.. The All-Ireland economy and people is unstoppable

I hadn't realised people in Northern Ireland were ever expected to "bow the knee" to the First Minister!

Screw him, if he invokes the past he better stop glossing over the past hundred + years. There were people who started this. If you continue doing this, it will never stop.

Correct. It was never about the protocol.

Well said, and you rightly point out, that the North today is a far cry from 60 years ago. When Northern politics was dominated by a overbearing Unionist Government. And yesterday we saw democracy for change.

Jim Allister is one of the great minds of the 17th century.

NO NO NO NO NO would be a racehorse name if it was owned by the DUP

Angry and powerless. No rioters, no strikers, not even some terrorists support the Union. I never thought I'd see the day.

There is nothing 'loyalist' about Ulster unionists, who want to disregard UK laws and the principle that we are all equal before the law of the land.

It's hard to reason with a bigot. He shows that the Good Friday Agreement was a miracle, which he probably rejects? Brexit was another excuse for division but the dividing line was drawn in the wrong place for bigots.

Best thing for Jim is to give him no media coverage. I am Irish and proud of it and have seen the changes since the end of English rule but we have moved on. Ask any Irish person around the world where are they from, the proud reply is Ireland. We don't say, we are from the southern or northern part. Its great today to see our youth getting on with their lives. I am around the same age as Jim and hes getting old and must realize he's losing power and no longer rule with the gun and bomb. He should get his few mates and go to a 6 nations game and enjoy the few years he has left.

It’s like listening to Ian Paisley all over again.

The orange order are not only a problem in Ulster but they doing all can to hslt Scotish independence. I wish to god they would work the are being used by the English eslasement.

Wait a minute, am i mistaken in thinking Mr Allister was all for boycott and continuing boycott ? Yet here we are, him giving a speech in the very same place he was all about boycotting?

Well, this guy has moved from the 1690s to the 1990s , re-living distant memories. He himself is a UVF sympathiser, his new best friend Bryson proving the point. So out of touch with reality and a danger to us all.

Ah Jim up to bed now, the adults are going to have a chat. Ok u can leave ur nightlight on

Jim, don't have a heart attack on the way out.

All about what happened in the past rather than looking to the future. Typical Unionist politician.

Has Jim ever heard of the UVF and UDA?

As a lot are saying here, i love his selective condemnation of people who died during the troubles. Since he mentioned Yvonne Dunlop, I’m surprised he didn’t mention my great uncle Sean McCrystal who was burned to death by the UVF in retaliation for Yvonne’s murder in Ballymena. Of course he wouldn’t. Only those murdered by the IRA. He doesn’t care about Yvonne Dunlop and had the brass neck to use her death as point scoring. But only because it was the IRA who were behind her death. Thankfully most people are over this shit now. Everyone in the chamber spoke on the real issues facing NI at the moment & Jim as usual just rants pure hated & bitterness & contributes nothing else. Never has.

Good Grief hide your old car batteries away He is draining them and drinking the acid Inot a single ounce of humanity in this Psychos being Trying to get his bully boys to do his dirty work Shame on him Unhinged

The shameful face of Jim.

Max, I said this all along, it was so obvious, because the DUP stropped off, and refused to go to Stormont after the result of the NI elections, but because it is 2 yrs ago, the DUP hope we would all forget> My words, "well done Northern Ireland, I hope all goes well for you."

Let's hope Jim isn't around for much longer 👍

A fascist living in the past- he is losing his power, has lost his power and that is what he hates.

as a ex soldier N.IRELAND 80s quite a few tours move forward guys a way from people like this guy on both sides 😡

He always comes out with the rhetoric that you would get out of North Korea. If it was up to Jim Allister NI would go right back to these atrocities that he lists off. He is sad, bitter and angry that the old unionist dominance is a thing of the past. Just as well he is a one seat wonder.

Great video and analysis Max spot on the weasel

Michelle O‘Neill said there will be a referendum on a united Ireland within the next ten years. How would Jim Allister react to this announcement? With a heart attack?

He makes the DUP look moderate and reasonable.

Poor Jim...Let me give you a hug!

He doesn't want to mention that the deputy first minister, Emma Little Pengelly's father John Little, was a gun runner for loyalists... One of the Paris 3....

What was he doing there? If Jim Alister is so against the functioning of the Assembly why doesn't he continue his boycott?

Jim didn't seem to mention any Catholic victims in his rant, such a bitter twisted old man with old but dangerous views people like that don't want to move on

Extreme unionism since Carson: No, No, No!

It’s sad that people like this can reach positions of power. The least of us

He is repulsive And why not draw attention on the deputy first ministers background ? If he is clutching at straws. He literally proved that it was bitterness and sectarianism all along, nothing to do with the protocol. Thank you for sharing

This is why really don't like Jim one bit and yes while I had my problems with Ian Paisley SR at least he realised that making peace with your enemies.

Jim Alistair by his own admission he will be a Thorn in the side of Stormont. An Irritating itch. 🇮🇪🇪🇺

First they claim victory ,then deny they lost ,then pretend they knew all along they lost.

What a total 🛎️🔚

I can tell you exactly what Jim wants. He wants the NI protocol repudiated and the border put (in his own words) "where it should be". In other words, put the hard border on the island and let the unionists rule the roost once again. That speech made my blood boil.

Jimbo loves pointing the finger , ignoring the four pointing back at him.

Hate,hate, and more hate. He should "shuffle off this mortal coil" and leave those that want peace and democracy to thrive!

Even the dogs on the street knew 😂😂😂

So full of hate. Poor wee man. I wonder has he ever been happy in his miserable life?

An attactive, highly intelligent Sinn Fein boss things can only get better.

You are correct and I’m a unionist with a small U. Jim Allister really needs to grow up. NI needs government and I’m happy to make my SF MLA’s work on my behalf and in the past they have done so.

Time for democracy. And a Border Poll please.

I sleep well at night, knowing this dinosuar goes to bed every night, greeting his teeth in anger. I suspect a heart attack in the near future 😂

The notion of a United KIngdom was ended by Brexit , which was and is an expression of English nationalism in my opinion. . Jim Allisters views speak to a small minority in NI only and have no relevance in the UK. . I am hopeful that the assembly will endure this time, extremism on all sides has had its day.

Fair enough, I understand his feelings but every conflict in the world that ended with a peace deal has had the perpetrators of some of the must inhumane violence become the Government.

The way he refers to Michelle O’Neill is so full of hate, his words and facial expression. It’s complete and utter hate. It’s pure bigotry and racism. He doesn’t give a damn about protocols etc, it’s all about his hatred of Irish Catholics.

Jim is an example of what caused the civil war in NI. No Surrender.

I would hardly call this Jim MCAllister revealing his true colours. There's plenty of clips of him saying he'd never support a SF First Minister before today. This is just him trying to move the more extreme disgruntled voters from the DUP over to his rival even more extreme TUV party.