Thousands of loyalists took to the streets of Belfast today and accused the British government of ignoring the Protestant people.
The inaugural Love Ulster rally heard speakers from the church, Orange Order and victims' groups criticise Tony Blair and Perer Hain.
Armoured police Land Rovers monitored the parade as it made its way along the Shankill Road before protestors assembled on a muddy football field in Woodvale Park, north Belfast.
Standing on the back of a trailer, the Rev Mervyn Gibson told the crowd: "The unionist loyalist people are not being listened to - our elected leaders are treated like the remnants of a difficult colonial outpost.
"We had no choice but to be here today, because we are fed up with the lip service paid to unionists and the silver service treatment of republicans." Despite the miserable wet weather the crowd cheered and blew whistles as Mr Gibson addressed in turn Tony Blair, the IRA and Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde.
He claimed the Mr Blair had made concession after concession to republicans but had forgotten about the unionist community. The cleric also called for the Parades Commission to be disbanded and described it as one of the biggest obstacles to peace.
Despite accepting IRA decommissioning, Mr Gibson said the Provisionals should not expect to be thanked for stopping their terror campaign. In a brief address to the Chief Constable he highlighted the tensions which have existed since last month's Whiterock Parade erupted into ferocious rioting.
He asked: "When will the duplicity in policing stop and all areas be policed consistently rather than depending on the political persuasion of the local population?" Orange Order Belfast County Grand Master Dawson Baillie read a letter to the rally from the Grand Master Robert Saulters, who was in Liverpool on business.
Mr Saulters wrote: "It is time to exert our authority and to start clawing back our beloved province. "Before we can do that we must have unity within the unionist political scene. "We must have unity within our people. "And above all we must have a line for discipline, I don't mean Republican style, I mean where we can all sit down and think things through for the good of all the British in Ulster."
PA