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Jim Allister demands unionist unity, but apparently only when everyone else agrees with him. Jeysus folks can we not See what's happening here? The “middleclass UVF spokesman wannabe” , Jamie Bryson, has spotted a gap in unionism and slipped straight into it. Now Jim Allister, representing the same tired sectarian politics of the 1970s, has spotted another gap: THE HARDLINERS. And in he slips, hoping to capitalise on the anger, resentment and disillusionment within unionism, these people are pure sectarian opportunists. Surely everyone can see this, right? It's the same old poisonous formula. Compromise is betrayal, power-sharing is surrender, and anyone who dares disagree is accused of abandoning unionist principles. Meanwhile, his TUV colleagues are never short of sermons in Stormont and council chambers about Sinn Féin, the IRA and republican commemorations. Yet where is that same righteous indignation when questions arise about TUV representatives allegedly marching alongside loyalist paramilitary flags and regalia? The Bible-thumping moral grandstanding increasingly resembles a gathering of morally bankrupt TV fecking evangelists, preaching the path to everyone else while apparently finding it considerably harder to examine the hypocrisy and contradictions closer to home, or in orange lodges or on the back of flatbeds, in this case. If republican paramilitary symbolism deserves condemnation, loyalist paramilitary symbolism deserves precisely the same. Terrorism doesn't magically become culture simply because someone puts on a sash, joins a band or marches behind a flag. And when will people finally recognise that this relentless politics of sectarian grievance, religious moralising, confrontation and refusal to compromise has been holding unionism back for decades? Allister lectures the DUP about unity despite having broken away from the party himself. He condemns participation in government alongside Michelle O'Neill, invokes Drumcree as a test of unionist loyalty and treats practically every political compromise as another betrayal. Yet after all these decades, what constructive alternative does this political sectarian dinosaur “ JIMBO” actually offer? Let’s be clear, its more confrontation? More division? More sectarian bile? Another generation condemned to fight the political battles of the 1970s? NI has changed, Jimbo. Catholics and nationalists are equal citizens. Power-sharing is a democratic reality, and no amount of Bible-thumping, flag-waving or political grandstanding is going to turn the clock back. And maybe that’s the real fecking tragedy here. Rather than confronting the difficult questions about unionism's future, these self-appointed guardians of unionist morality seem determined to compete over who can be the loudest, the angriest and the most uncompromising. Remind you of anyone or an era in time? Bryson spots a grievance and slimes himself into the controversy. Allister spots a political division and presents himself as the last defender of the Union, Meanwhile, ordinary unionists are left wondering what any of this actually achieves. Perhaps the question JIMBO should finally answer is whether his own brand of sectarian, confrontational politics has contributed to the very divisions within unionism that he now claims to deplore. Because preaching unity while attacking fellow unionists, pontificating about terrorism while facing uncomfortable questions about your own party colleagues, and condemning every compromise is hardly a convincing vision for the future. Ohh and we haven’t even mentioned Ulster Resistance yet, FFS When will unionism finally recognise that the politics of permanent grievance, religious self-righteousness and endless confrontation has been holding it back for decades? Jimbo has spent his political life dragging unionism backwards and then blames everyone else because unionism hasn’t moved fecking move forward. Although it is great to watch