What about "my people" and "my community"?

What is all this nonsence about loyalist exceptionalism? That they are experiencing special difficulties and therefore require special treatment. That they are "unheard", "unrepresented" and "left behind". This is all rampant make-believe babble. This may sound harsh, but I will explain later. Before that let's look at Henry McDonald and Alex Kane who recently spoke about Northern Ireland's self-appointed mouthpieces.

The Guardian's Ireland correspondent Henry McDonald (@henrymcdonald) wrote a piece in the Belfast Telegraph (@beltel), 'Why are 'spokesmen' with no mandate like Winston Irvine and Jamie Bryson allowed on the BBC as if they were elected representatives?' Of the self-appointed mouthpieces he said:

"The first question that came to mind listening to this was: in what way was the "community" opinion Irvine proposed to represent gauged, tested, or analysed over this controversy?