Soil was never allowed on lorries from Great Britain to Northern Ireland

A letter from Peter McEvoy:
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Will the News Letter allow me as an ex long distance lorry driver to put a few facts in public domain?

Not in living memory was soil (call it British if you like) allowed into Northern Ireland.

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So called ministry men operated at every dock if soil was found on machinery, lorry and driver were put back on boat must be washed in Britain and driver had to pay boat fare twice. That is a fact (check it out).

Now fast forward to today contributors on BBC Nolan, TalkBack who are copying Trump, using ie alternative facts,

1. That EU on Friday threatened to reintroduce the now redundant border the British put across Ireland by force and threats years ago.

Not true, what they said there fear was the vaccine could be as is the law allowed into Northern Ireland and then moved on to Britain, owing to the scarcity of vaccine in EU they were trying to protect EU life (that’s not a crime).

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2. There was on the BBC a lot of hype (hysteria) from English flower growers seed merchants etc that they cannot sell their wares to NI because of protocol and demands for it to removed. But if they tried to send their wares across any border (all docks are borders) from say Bournemouth right around the coast to Hull on the east coast, there would be barriers.

People who voted for Brexit have banned themselves from export to EU, of which Northern Ireland is still part.

Peter McEvoy, Banbridge

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