BBC giving air-time to the so-called UVF Regimental Band is a international disgrace the band honours members of the modern day UVF and glorifies loyalist terrorism.

Criticism has been directed at the BBC for broadcasting a vigil from the Shankill Road where a band openly displayed items with the name of loyalist paramilitary group the Ulster Volunteer Force.

          Members of the so-called UVF                Regimental Band on BBC Newsline

              September 16th, 2022. 

The BBC report said the Shankill Road “came to a complete stop as together a community remembered its Queen of 70 years”.

As flute music played in the background, it said: “They gathered beside the Platinum Jubilee mural and a sea of floral tributes. They paid their respects, each in their own way.”

   THE PURPLE STANDARD: Defends the          UVF Regimental Band - This is the              main mouthpiece for the 'Shankill            UVF' today's modern UVF terrorists              guilty of murdering hundreds of                 innocent Catholic men, women and                        children since 1966.

The community couldn’t be in London, the report said, but they could attend a vigil at home and that’s why it was so important to them.

   NOW: The modern day UVF don't need        to put on masks but clearly wear suits        and ties but still enjoy to display their        emblems to remind everyone who's in        charge (as can be seen in the picture                                   above) 

However, during the piece a loyalist band can be clearly seen displaying emblems that say “Ulster Volunteer Force Regimental Band” complete with UVF insignia and its motto (For Drugs and Ulster) ‘For God and Ulster’.

According to their Twitter page, the UVF Regimental Band from east Belfast was founded in 1969.

On Facebook, the band posted: “We had the honour tonight to play at the service of thanksgiving for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll on the Shankill Road. A very moving service.”

    UVF members honouring one of their         gunmen Brian Robinson responsible           for murdering an innocent Catholic                   man on the Ardoyne Road 

The Sunday Life recently reported that the UVF Regimental Band East Belfast took part in the Brian Robinson Memorial Parade.

The UVF gunman was shot dead by undercover soldiers on the Crumlin Road in September 1989, minutes after he was witnessed murdering Catholic Paddy McKenna at the Ardoyne shops.

      Front Cover: Purple Standard DUP             leader Jeffrey Donaldson MP never               made it onto the cover of 'Times                Magazine' but he did make it onto                  the cover of the UVF's Purple                                     Standard 

The paramilitary gang honours him on the first weekend of September every year with a huge parade organised by its B Company unit.

During the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the Ulster Volunteer Force murdered more than 500 people.

The loyalist paramilitary group's campaign also claimed the lives of 33 people in bomb attacks in Dublin and Monaghan in 1974.

The UVF was formed in 1966 to combat what it saw as a rise in Irish nationalism centred on the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.

      Shortly after the photo shoots and          press release statements all the other         Unionist parties threw the PUP and                     the UVF under the bus

It adopted the name and symbols of the original UVF, the movement founded in 1912 by Sir Edward Carson to fight against Home Rule.

Many UVF men joined the 36th Ulster Division of the British Army and died in large numbers during the Battle of the Somme in July 1916.

In more recent times the PSNI has linked the UVF to drugs criminality.

The BBC has been contacted for comment.

The UVF Regimental Band does not display contact information on its social media accounts.

With many thanks to the: Belfast Telegraph and Garrett Hargan for the original story. 

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BBC criticised for airing Shankill vigil with performance from loyalist UVF Regimental Band