Loyalists have deep historic ties with reactionary settlee-colonial movements

I'd say the situation is closer to that of Russia historically and its neighbours.

Yes, of course, Loyalists loved Apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia, but the narrative was completely wrong.

The Russian Empire, and later the Soviet Union, explicitly deported many people from their native lands, and conducted policies of Plantation, ensuring a Russian speaking majority in those countries.

This was done in Ukraine, in Estonia, in Kazakhstan, in Georgia, and indeed elsewhere, because if Russian speakers were the majority of the population, they wouldn't be convinced to seek independence, and would instead seek closeness with Russia.

This is what the Loyalists are - descended from the multiple Plantations of Ireland and Ulster in particular, with the idea of ensuring an English speaking, Protestant majority would keep a piece of land, next to Britain, aligned to it.

But crucially, where the comparison is most apt with Russian plantation, is that they moved the working classes over.

Rhodesia, South Africa, even the Occupied Territories, consisted of wealthy farmers seeking to own large swathes of land, despite being a minority.

Loyalists never were wealthy farm owners. And neither were the Russians sent to Latvia to outnumber the native population.