British citizens in Northern Ireland should refuse to pay tax if treated differently from other British citizens

It is now almost two years since the protocol descended upon Northern Ireland and since then we have had huffing and puffing from the various unionist parties and their leaders together with the new kids on the block given lots of space and air time.

What have they achieved?

Am I being naïve by stating nothing other than becoming more important in their own eyes and misleading the unionist people?

The failure is that they never produced a strategy which would unite the unionist people and give them a course of action in which they could be directly involved without being criminalised.

George Washington stated at Valley Forge he would make his last stand among the Ulster Scots who believed there should be no taxation without representation.

Where is there such a spirit now and yet the target and action is obvious, namely the government agency known as the Inland Revenue which collects government taxes.

This would be a direct challenge to government to justify their actions and it is simple, namely self employed individuals make their tax returns on the basis of British citizenship but refuse to pay on the basis we are being treated differently from the rest of the British citizens.

I have little doubt our learned politicians will scoff at this suggestion but I am aware of such a course of action having been adopted over the past 18 months and the individual has requested the revenue to take proceedings to recover ‘their tax’ and in spite of at least six requests they have failed to do so.

Lyle Cubitt, Ballymena