I'm pretty sure that the reports of hate speech and violence at these marches/demos are greatly exaggerated. reporters from the Mail, Sun, Express, Telegraph do not go to take pictures of people demonstrating peacefully.
Braverman likens the marches to the situation with the IRA in NI. She seems confused. I'm sure it's the loyalists who do the marching.
I was in NI a few years ago and met a former master of a District Orange Lodge. He had been instrumental in making the marches in his area less confrontational (for which he received some pretty nasty threats from his own side). Traditionally they had been planned with provocation in mind, through Catholic areas.
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