Unionists have fallen for this Irish Sea border hook, line and sinker

A letter from John Mulholland:
By John Mulholland
Published 11th Dec 2020, 13:19 BST
The DUP laughed and listened when Boris Johnson told their 2018 conference there would be no Irish Sea border, above. When Boris got his majority in Parliament, he dispatched with the DUP as they were no good to him any more. Picture by Arthur Allison/Pacemaker PressThe DUP laughed and listened when Boris Johnson told their 2018 conference there would be no Irish Sea border, above. When Boris got his majority in Parliament, he dispatched with the DUP as they were no good to him any more. Picture by Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press
The DUP laughed and listened when Boris Johnson told their 2018 conference there would be no Irish Sea border, above. When Boris got his majority in Parliament, he dispatched with the DUP as they were no good to him any more. Picture by Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press

Rather than have an EU border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, the UK government have taken the easy way out by agreeing a border at Larne, Belfast and Warrenpoint.

What protest have we seen from so called unionists? Very little.

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I know that this has taken place in a pandemic, but the ease of which the EU and the Republic have got their way does not bode well for the future of Northern Ireland as a full member of the UK.

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I lay most of the blame at the feet of the DUP. They have again marched unionists to the top of the hill and left them there.

Reg Empey was right on Nolan yesterday morning. Nigel Dodds cast up things that happened in the past to try to excuse what the DUP have done in the present. Like the DUP, I did not agree with David Trimble in 1998, but what has been done in the past is gone.

The DUP laughed and listened when Boris Johnson told their conference there would be no Irish Sea border. When Boris got his majority in Parliament, he dispatched with the DUP as they were no good to him any more.

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Michael Gove came over here with his 30 pieces of silver and now he has agreed with the EU to an economic border separating Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK by withdrawing parts of the Internal Market Bill.

Unionists have fallen for this hook, line, and sinker.

The Stormont House Agreement negotiated by the DUP led to biased legacy proposals. If ever unionism was crying out for fresh leadership, it is now.

John Mulholland, Doagh

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