Statement by TUV Upper Bann spokesman Darrin Foster:
“That Alliance reported loyalists to the PSNI for erecting red, white and blue bunting in Lurgan will serve only to inflame community tensions in the run up to the Twelfth. Who do Alliance think they are? Making a complaint to the police about traditional bunting going up; as it has done for generations; would be laughable were it not for the fact that the crypto-nationalist party responsible holds the Justice Ministry.
“Understandably the PSNI have said that no offense was detected. Tellingly, in spite this Alliance has doubled down on making the complaint; laughably citing safety concerns.
“It seems that the party which likes to preach to us all about the need for tolerance and respect shows neither when it comes to expressions of loyalist and British culture.”