Yes the DUP voted to Leave but some other unionists didn’t read the anti EU mood of the silent majority

In answer to Reg Empey’s letter in Saturday’s paper:

(The letter can be read here: ‘The Irish Sea border is outrageous, and the DUP leader still fails to accept her role in it’)

The UK as a Union were voting as a whole to either stay in or leave the EU.

Yes the DUP did vote to Leave.

But there were those other unionists who didn’t read the mood of those that mattered, the silent majority of the country who were fed up with the abuse of power by the unelected commissioners in Brussels, and of course those politicians in Parliament who sold their country for 30 Pieces of Silver.

Under their then leader Mike Nesbitt the Ulster Unionist Party encouraged their followers to vote Remain, along with a large majority of the business leaders who are now crying about the border in the Irish Sea.

All they talked about was we need to keep the Irish border open, otherwise the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) will be broken and it could lead to trouble, if we were to have customs posts set up between Northern Ireland and the Republic.

Now after they got their wishes, no customs posts on the island of Ireland. We have been left under the jurisdiction of Brussels for trading arrangements, treated as a third party within the UK.

And all without a vote on it as is stipulated in the GFA by electorate into any change of their status within the UK. This has now left GFA null and void.

On the Northern Ireland Protocol this was concocted up by Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar during their meeting at Thornton Manor held on October 10 2019.

The only comment by either politician was Leo Varadkar’s: “I’m very happy with the outcome.”

Bobby Baxter, Coleraine

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