Unionism on a high wire with no net

Unionists now welcome Irish Ministers to Stormont to discuss NI affairs. For some considerable time they campaigned against an Irish Sea border, now it’s been imposed.

We may have no alternative now but to accept the inevitable and make adjustments.

It doesn’t help that the DUP is so denuded of talent. They may well argue, with some justification, they are not the architects of this mess, but the inheritors.

Boris saw them coming, deceived them and set them up. He then added insult to injury by claiming he had done them a favour: would you trust this man with anything?

Those in our community still switched on are looking down a very dark tunnel towards an abyss. Left to our own devices, rigor mortis could set in, or in an irrational act of madness we could run like lemmings to our own destruction.

We’re dead, and haven’t the wit to stiffen!

Unionism is on a high wire with no safety net.

I’ve no great conviction the DUP are a safe pair of hands.

Boris and our Unionist politicians are moving us closer to the edge of extinction, as Irish Nationalists, who have nothing to offer, hold out their aprons and encourage us to jump.

Clive Maxwell, Bleary, Co Down

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