Articles about DUP’s role in Irish Sea border cut through the nonsense

Uncomfortable reading for Arlene Foster and the DUP in Saturday’s News Letter.

Sam McBride’s article and Lord Empey’s letter cutting through the guff of windows of opportunity and the rest of the ‘not our fault’ nonsense.

(Sam McBride’s article can be read here ‘Shackled to Brexit, Arlene Foster can’t admit that it has been disastrous for Union’ and Lord Empey’s letter here ‘The Irish Sea border is outrageous, and the DUP leader still fails to accept her role in it’)

I wonder when and who will be the first DUP spokesperson to utter the phrase ‘The North of Ireland’?

If you don’t think that’s likely did you think Edwin Poots would have built border control points at our ports and effectively moved the border from Newry to Larne?

Harry Patterson, Castlecaulfield

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