The Craigavon policy was not only reaffirmed with greater emphasis than before by the people of Ulster themselves, but it received the deliberate endorsement of the Unionist Party in England and Scotland.

Moreover, as Mr.Long's speech explicitly promised, and Mr.Bonar Law's speech unmistakably implied, British support was not to be dependent on Ulster's opposition to Home Rule being kept within strictly legal limits.

Indeed, it had become increasingly evident that opposition so limited must be impotent, since, as Mr.Bonar Law pointed out, Ministers and their majority in the House of Commons were in Mr.Redmond's pocket, and had no choice but to "toe the line," while the "boom" which they had erected by the Parliament Act cut off Ulster from access to the British constituencies, unless that boom could be burst as the boom across the Foyle was broken by the _Mountjoy_ in 1689.

The Unionist leader had warned the Ulstermen that in these circumstances they must expect nothing from Parliament, but must trust in themselves.

They did not mistake his meaning, and they were quite ready to take his advice.
Coming, as it did, two days before the introduction of the Government's Bill, the Balmoral demonstration profoundly influenced opinion in the country.