It seems 74 million Americans who voted for President Trump were less well informed than your columnist

Let us hope that the judgment of the deputy editor of the Belfast News Letter, Ben Lowry, concerning Donald Trump, at the time of writing still president of the United States, and the legitimacy of the presidential election of November 3 2020, is sound.

(The article can be read here: Ben Lowry — ‘Donald Trump should be removed from the White House, even though he is in his final days there’)

He exercises a great influence in these matters in forming public opinion.

We must assume that he is right and the 74 million Americans who voted for President Trump were less well informed, and also that the misgivings expressed in the state legislatures of Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan and Georgia were unfounded.

What intellectual self-confidence and self-assurance Ben Lowry seems to possess.

In 1985 my life and that of my family was ruined by my opposition to Margaret Thatcher’s Anglo-Irish Agreement by which she betrayed the Official Unionists.

Was it worth it? The unionists of Northern Ireland never learn. They have trusted Theresa May and Boris Johnson since the EU referendum of 23 June 2016 and now they have been betrayed by both despite the power accorded to the DUP by the government of Theresa May.

But unionists have now feebly accepted the dismantling of the borders of the United Kingdom.

What if we, the English were to say, like Ben Lowry of President Trump, good riddance to them?

After all the vast amounts of English money sent to Northern Ireland could be put to better use in support of the English poor.

Dr Gerald Morgan, Dublin

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