Letter: 2026 the year for all unionists to realise you cannot oppose the sea border while implementing EU rule
A letter from Stevan Patterson:
2026 will mark 10 years since the historic vote to leave the European Union, in June 2016.
Sadly Northern Ireland is still waiting for the Brexit our nation voted for.
The agreement of prime minister Boris Johnson in his NI Protocol deal with the EU has meant we in Northern Ireland got the unwanted sea border that came into effect five years ago, on January 1, 2021.
Under the undemocratic control of the EU we have to follow EU laws we don’t make or cannot change diverging trade away from the rest of the UK to the Republic of Ireland/EU with reduced choice and increased prices.
The EU is using Northern Ireland for its own political agenda and does not care for the wellbeing of people here who are just collateral damage, and continues to treat Northern Ireland like an evil overlord would a colony.
For me EU rule is Evil Union rule as the EU has been shown time and time again to be a tyrannical anti-democratic and anti-freedom in nature.
As part of the EU’s agenda they weaponised the land border between this part of the UK and the Republic of Ireland simply for their own protectionist, united Ireland and abolishment of the UK ideology.
This vindictive policy is to simply punish the UK for democratically wanting to leave the corrupt organisation.
A sea border that is hardening each day despite being told by the DUP it was gone when they surrendered on our place in the Union claiming their seven tests had been met when clearly not even one was met. A party now saying they would rather have Stormont rule over Starmer rule.
Such rubbish. Any true unionist knows it’s better to have UK rule that we have an equal say in at Westminster over EU/RoI rule that we don’t and that its pipeline comes from being an enabler in the executive.
Unionists must work smarter and stop being willing to implement EU laws that are destroying Northern Ireland’s rightful place in the UK.
2026 must be the year to finally realise that if you are a unionist then you cannot be an enabler of the sea border through EU rule in Northern Ireland by being a protocol and framework implementer in the executive.
Stevan Patterson, Castlederg