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Belfast City Council has issued an injunction on loyalists to stop them organising or directing bonfires on four sites in east Belfast. Both Sinn Fein and the Alliance Party have told this programme that the DUP, UUP and PUP have supported this action against these loyalists. The three unionist parties just mentioned are refusing to deny to their loyalist community whether they have indeed done this. They are refusing to even address this specific issue. Stephen decided to go up to two of the bonfires in question and speak face to face with some in the community. That's something their own unionist political representatives didn't do yesterday. Stephen wanted to understand how these people were feeling. Indeed, there might be quite a few of you admiring Belfast City Council and asking why this type of court order is not more widespread. We see other fires being built on roads , beside hospitals and houses and there cannot be a free for fall in any decent society. If Sinn Fein and the Alliance Party are to be believed, then the DUP, the UUP and the PUP have supported imposing a court order on some people within their own community - without being prepared to even admit they've done it. So for any of the young men who he met at these bonfire sites yesterday, why should they believe or put trust in politics? The very politicians who knock their doors looking for votes won't explain to them why they supported a court order against them, if indeed they did? This isn't about the rights of wrongs of a court order. This is about how it was done.

On the programme you'll hear from bonfire builders, residents, UUP councillor John Scott, commentators Alex Kane and Allison Morris, legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg, Alliance Party MLA Chris Lyttle, and we took your calls.