You are not welcome here.

As sentences go, they don’t come much simpler and clearer than that, do they?

So, exactly what part of “you are not welcome here” does the Orange Order not get?

Why are they once again, and tiresomely so, trying to force a parade of bigotry on the quiet wee town of Stonehaven?

This time the sash-wearing tribe want a parade to commemorate the Battle Of The Boyne – a historical event that has much in common with Stonehaven as the storming of the Bastille or the Siege of Leningrad.

They seem to have forgotten another memorable event, even though it only happened two years ago.

That was when the people of Stonehaven successfully told the Orange Order “you are not welcome here” (there’s that phrase again) with 10,000........

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