Statement by TUV spokesperson Stevan Patterson:
“I am disgusted that some 24 hours after it came to public attention a sign calling for a boycott of Protestant owned businesses in Castlederg remains in place.
“Significantly, the sign is on council owned property so there can be no dispute about whose responsibility it is to have it removed.
“If bigotry is so strong in the area so as to mean that council employees are afraid to remove it then the police should act – in fact it’s a scandal that they haven’t already done so.
“Such an attack on any other minority group would evoke outrage from the great and the good. Because it is a small border Protestant community which is the target it seems it is less serious in the eyes of some.
“This is a community which was on the receiving end of 30 years of brutal Republican violence. It seems nothing has changed in terms of the hatred which motived so many murders.”