Poisonous Pink Ladies Protest at Belfast City Hall
It is clear that this rally was staged to spread the message of misinformation, downright lies, and hatred against migrants especially those of colour and of a different religious persuasion
Last weekend a crowd of about 50 women dressed in bright pink staged a toxic anti-immigrant and Islamophobic protest outside Belfast City Hall. The new group call themselves Ulster Pink Ladies,. The all-female activist network, are an offshoot of the far right Pink Ladies group in England.
Their goal is to claim that the ‘vulnerable’ are threatened by a wave of dangerous immigrants, and apply an extra veneer of credibility to these assertions via a women-led movement.
The term Pink Ladies in Northern Ireland is usually synonymous with those who wear the pink ribbons and raise money for cancer research, not a group who have their foundations in far right ideology and hatred. The fact that the knuckle dusters they handed out were pink and shaped like cats, does not make them any less sinister or threatening. Women have been arrested for placing stickers on ATMs and dragged into police land rovers for wearing Palestine Action T shirts.
It is clear that this rally was staged to spread the message of misinformation, downright lies, and hatred against migrants especially those of colour and of a different religious persuasion.
These actions should be condemned by all in our society.
Bigotry and intolerance in all their forms must be called out by our politicians, church leaders, and civic leaders.
The message of hatred spewed by these far-right groups poison the minds of our children and bring nothing but shame to our communities. The message of these bigots and racists about the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl in Ballymena by two Romanian-speaking teenagers in June 2025 was chilling given the racist hate fest that took place there subsequently. It is now time for our political institutions to tackle these far-right groups once and for all.