Under Boris Johnson the Tories moved from being the nasty party to the treacherous one

The constitutional implications for Northern Ireland go far beyond the complexities of the Irish Sea trade border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The constitutional changes that will come into effect at midnight on December 31 2020 will become shockingly apparent within weeks as the EU unilaterally stamps its authority over Northern Ireland, through their sub-contractor HM’s Revenue & Customs, and having to be paid for by the British taxpayer.

No doubt encouraged all the way by the foreign government of Ireland.

The European Research Group (ERG) was the double-cross committee set up by the Conservatives to push through their Brexit agenda.

The ‘nasty party’ of Theresa May has become the ‘treacherous party’ of Boris Johnson.

The prime minister duped the DUP and has lied to the people of Northern Ireland when in front of the television cameras, publicly stated: “There will be no border down the Irish Sea.”

At that time, you could hear the DUP singing in harmony from the same hymn sheet: What a friend we have in Boris...

Northern Ireland’s position is less than 3% of the UK population which will be reduced more or less to dominion status, and will in part become sovereign under the president of the EU; while Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s constitutional duty of responsibility set down in 1953 by her Coronation Oath, will at the stroke of midnight, be instantly diminished by the sleekit manipulations of the British government.

Morrison W Woods, Bangor

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