You would think a unionist minister would resign rather than help set up a border in the Irish Sea

Surely, as a unionist, rather than doing this, you would resign your position!

Now that government has denied that they ordered the minister to begin the work, it is a strange decision by a unionist minister. Who would have envisaged that unionism would have ever sat back and allowed this to happen without their consent?

Organisations like the Ulster Farmer’s Union (UFU) are very quiet about the border in the Irish Sea. Are they not one of the organisations who supported the backstop?

There is one sure thing, if the border was put where it should be, between the Republic and Northern Ireland, republicans would not have sat back and accepted it. Rather than becoming an EU colony, it would be better for unionists to resist the plans by refusing to work with the Northern Ireland Protocol.

Time is running out to overturn this separation from the mainland.

Many unionists want to sit back and bury their heads in the sand, and leave others to do their dirty work. Where are all the Belfast Agreement architects who sold unionists a pup in 1998?

John Mulholland, Doagh

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