A few comments on the ‘Protocol’ issue may be in order since new legislation may well be announced by Westminster today.
The roots of the controversy are buried beneath the ‘soil’ of much incomprehensible comment and argument over the last couple of years.
This is no attempt at an analysis of the legal aspects of the ‘Protocol’ but rather a seeking to remind us all of that out of which the whole matter has sprung.
Sincerely in Christ’s name,
Ivan Foster
JOE BIDEN IS SINN FEIN’S WILLING ‘POODLE’
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Poor old Joe Biden! It is not enough that he must toe the line laid down by that political ‘Harpy’, fellow Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, but now he has to dance to the tune of Sinn Fein’s ‘terrorist aficionado’, Mary Lou McDonald!
Sinn Fein’s McDonald warns of massive US resistance to Brexit changes in heated newspaper rant
“SINN Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald has warned the UK Government can expect considerable backlash should their new Northern Ireland Bill impact the Brexit deal aspects safeguarding the Ireland peace agreement.”
So a ‘Daily Express’ article begins.
This is bullying of the same ilk as that practised by the IRA – the threat of ruthless retaliation if their demands were not met!
For years the IRA went about Northern Ireland, mostly at night, and by the threat of slaughter by the bomb and bullet forced from a weak and contemptible Westminster government a surrender deal yielded to by compliant and self-seeking Unionist politicians. It was a surrender which gained a place in the government of Northern Ireland for Sinn Fein/IRA.
This is in truth what the odious ‘Stormont Executive’ is! It is the IRA’s ‘reward’ for decades of terror and murder. (more…)