Letter: Unionism's huffing and puffing won't get rid of Irish sea border – it’s time that penny dropped!
A letter from Alex Swan:
A regular reader of the News Letter could be forgiven for thinking that all unionism needs to do to be rid of the Irish Sea border is come together and demand change and its immediate removal.
One such letter was published on Thursday under the heading ‘Moaning won’t get rid of the Irish Sea border - unionists have to take action and bring down Stormont’ (March 19).
That was page 14. In the very same paper on page 18 there was a selection of photographs from 1986 of various protests, including a photograph of the then Belfast Lord Mayor Peter Robinson and behind him some 200,000 protestors determined to be rid of the hated Anglo Irish Agreement, a photograph from back in the day when ULSTER SAID NO – problem was, nobody listened.
Ironically, it took David Trimble and the 1998 Belfast Agreement to get the Anglo Irish Agreement off the statute books.
Yes, the Irish Sea border is a constitutional abomination and a frequent nuisance.
But in the present national political climate, unionism huffing and puffing won’t get rid of it – it’s time that penny dropped!