Debate contribution: Naomi Long: Intimidation at her Home
Debate contribution by Mr Jon Burrows on .
- MLA
- Mr Jon Burrows
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 13 October 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Matters of the Day
- Heading
- Naomi Long: Intimidation at her Home
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5175350
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For me, as someone who has crossed the road to help people and who has had bones broken for helping people in need, to be blamed for bringing scrutiny and accused that my solidarity with the Justice Minister was somehow "feigned" — that is the language that a Member used — went against every fibre in my body. My nieces and nephews read those tweets. They read the responses to them. I express my full solidarity with the Justice Minister. The people who gathered outside her house were a mob. I am sure that the Ulster Unionist Party gets no support from them whatsoever. I know that some of the very same people were highly critical of my party's role during COVID, because many of them are anti-vaxxers. I condemn outright what happened outside the Longs' house. I condemn outright what happened at Minister Kimmins's constituency office. Sinn Féin lectures us about our language and actions when it still defends the murders of thousands of people. Many people would have loved to have had only a protest outside their house instead of a masked man planting a bomb under their car or assassinating their father as he got into his car to go to work. Shame on you. We will defend democracy and challenge what happens out there, but we will also be robust in our scrutiny in this place.
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