of the Social Democratic and Labour Party in 1970 and remained a member until Parliament was prorogued in 1972. In 1964, Billy McMillen stood as a Republican Clubs candidate for the Belfast West constituency in the Westminster election. His office was in Divis Street and the Irish tricolour alongside the Starry Plough of Connolly's Irish Citizen Army was displayed in the window. The Flags and Emblems Act gave the RUC the power to remove any flag or emblem from public or private property which was considered to be likely to cause a breach of the peace. This was generally interpreted as any Irish flag since the Union Jack was specifically excluded from the Act. Ian Paisley insisted the RUC remove the Irish tricolour or he would organise a march and remove it himself. The police feared a backlash from Loyalists, and removed it, causing unrest and rioting by local residents. The Falls district is now one of seven wards within the Black Mountain district electoral area, which elects seven councillors to Belfast City Council. In 2019, six Sinn Féin and one People Before Profit councillors were elected. The Falls Road forms the centre of the Belfast West parliamentary constituency. The Westminster seat has been held by various nationalist politicians since the 1960s. Paul Maskey of Sinn Féin was elected MP in 2019, but in line with Sinn Féin's abstentionist policy he has not actually taken the seat at Westminster. In the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly elections, a total of four Sinn Féin and one People Before Profit representatives were elected in the Assembly constituency. The Troubles In the late 1960s, many Catholics from across Northern Ireland began to campaign, many with Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA), against discrimination in housing and jobs, under the banner of a civil rights campaign, in conscious imitation of the philosophy of, and tactics used by, the American Civil Rights Movement. Northern Ireland was part of the UK but the voting criteria were different to England, Scotland and Wales where a person could vote as soon as they became 18 years old. In Northern Ireland an 18 year old could only vote if they were the named owner or named renter of a house. Most of the Catholic houses had three generations living in the same dwelling (because of housing discrimination) so only the mother and father could vote. Furthermore, business owners (depending on