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Anna Lo: “Irlanda unita? Inevitabile”

L’ex parlamentare di Alliance Party ha detto che voterebbe per la riunificazione dell’Irlanda ad un eventuale referendum “Se ci fosse un referendum, voterei a favore di un’Irlanda unita con le dovute condizuini” ha affermato. “L’Irlanda è un’isola. Non penso dovrebbe esistere un confine a dividere un’isola”. Anna Lo, la prima parlamentare europea espressione della comunità cinese, ha detto che la…

The UK's only Chinese-born parliamentarian is leaving Northern Ireland politics because of continued racist abuse by loyalists.

Anna Lo said she had had enough of the attacks and would not run again for the centrist Alliance party in the next round of Stormont assembly elections in 2016.

Hong Kong-born Lo, a Northern Ireland resident for four decades, said she was also considering leaving for good because of enduring sectarianism and now rising racism.

Lo, who represents South Belfast in the regional parliament, also cited first minister Peter Robinson's support for a born-again Christian preacher's depiction of Islam as "the spawn of the devil" as a reason for wanting out of Ulster politics.

She is the first Chinese-born politician ever to have been elected to a British regional assembly or parliament.

In an interview with the Guardian on Thursday, Lo, said she had been shaken by a recent incident during the European election campaign when a loyalist mob followed her out of an east Belfast shopping centre.

"They started hurling abuse at me and I decided to get out of Connswater shopping centre as quickly as possible. About three or four individuals then followed me to the car park but I kept ahead of them walking as quickly as I could. Even when I got inside my car there was a young girl who climbed out of the wound-down window of a parked car and started shouting vile things at me. If I hadn't decided to act quickly and get out of there I don't know what would have happened to me."

She also revealed that her two sons had been trying to persuade her to join them in England because of their concerns for her safety.

"What can I do? I know they are worried about me but I have just bought a house and I have so many friends here. But I am seriously considering it."

The Alliance party's European election candidate, who gained 44,432 first preference votes in the poll last week, was scathing about Robinson's support for Pastor James McConnell, who denounced Islam as evil during a sermon a fortnight ago.

"To support a lunatic who makes remarks like that is adding fuel to the flames in Northern Ireland.

I don't understand how someone in such a position could make such comments in any way shape or form, but especially the first minister of a country with such a tumultuous relationship regarding religious beliefs.

He was also given the opportunity to retract said comments and apologise but basically refused to so I'm of the belief he's incapable of looking after a country such as Northern Ireland. As a result of this, one of the country's best MLAs (Anna Lo) has made the decision to leave as she does not feel safe anymore which is a serious blow to the hot mess that is Northern Irish politics.

David Ford: Alliance Party vuole Irlanda unita

Il leader dell’Alliance Party ha detto che il suo partito non segue gli stampi nazionalisti o unionisti ma è fatto per chiunque viva in Irlanda del Nord

David Ford ha tenuto il discorso durante l’annuale conferenza dell’Alliance Party a Belfast.

“Non siamo i moderati della politica nordirlandese – siamo i radicali” ha affermato davanti ai membri del partito riuniti al La Mon Hotel sabato mattina.

Anna Lo parla di Irlanda unita. Rabbia tra gli unionisti

Anna Lo ha provocato malumori politici dicendo che l’unità potrebbe aiutare l’Irlanda economicamente, socialmente e politicamente

Anna Lo, candidata alle europee per Alliance Party, ha provocato furore politico e un problema per il partito intercomunitario, affermando che è praticabile la strada verso un’Irlanda unita.

Anna Lo ha scatenato una tempesta sostenendo che un’Irlanda unita sarebbe “in…