Protestant Coalition
The Protestant Coalition is a far right Protestant supremacist party created in April 2013. Its website states it is an "anti-politics, political party" whose priority is "the empowerment of the PUL (Protestant Unionist Loyalist) community".[1]
On its launch the party leader was James Dowson a former British National Party fundraiser.[1] Dowson was reportedly removed from the party in September 2013.[2]
Contents
Social media
In August 2013 the Protestant Coalition Facebook page was 'completely removed after being suspended on previous occasions'.[3] Willie Frazer 'last night told the Belfast Telegraph that his social media sites have suffered repeated suspensions over the last 10 days.'[3]
The party then travelled to Dublin to picket Facebook HQ and attempted to hand in a letter of protest:
- Facebook yesterday refused to accept a hand-delivered letter from the Protestant Coalition. Founder member Willie Frazer and two other members of the organisation had travelled to the social media giant's headquarters in Dublin to protest at the removal of its Facebook website page last Saturday. On Monday a spokesman for Facebook said the page had been removed "in error" and it has since been restored. But Mr Frazer made the trip regardless because, he claimed, the Protestant Coalition's page is continuously subject to suspensions, in what he has described as a "vendetta" against it.[4]
People
Founder members
Jim Dowson | Alice Dowson | Willie Frazer | Davy Nicholl | Robert Magee | Bill Hill[5]
Resources, Contact, Notes
Resources
BBC News Northern Ireland Protestant Coalition emerges as NI's newest political party 24 April 2013 Last updated at 11:37.
Contact
- Facebook protestantcoalition.co.uk
- Twitter: protestantNI
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 BBC News Northern Ireland Protestant Coalition emerges as NI's newest political party 24 April 2013 Last updated at 11:37.
- ↑ Dowson dumped, Hope Not Hate, 6 September 2013.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Claire McNeilly 'Loyalist group hits out over removal of its social network pages' Belfast Telegraph August 5, 2013 Monday Edition 1; Pg. 6,7.
- ↑ Frazer's protest letter snubbed at Facebook HQ; Belfast Telegraph August 7, 2013 Wednesday Edition 1; Pg. 24
- ↑ Allison Morris, 'Cracks appearing in Protestant Coalition' The Irish News, June 1, 2013 Saturday Pg. 6.
