Former DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds has compared the current situation in Northern Ireland to that of “a colony”
, arguing that the protocol means the people there are governed by EU rules without any representation in that body.
“From the 1st January 2021, every citizen of the United Kingdom living in Northern Ireland has had the experience of having the significance of their votes slashed as the responsibility for making the laws of Northern Ireland over vast swathes of the economy are taken from them, given to the members of the legislature of a foreign political entity of which they are not part, of which they have no representation, not just in relation to one statute or one area of law, but in relation to 300...
“As I looked around to try and describe the reality of what confronts us, the only model I can find that comes close to fitting is the UN category of a non-self-governing territory, which is the current term for a colony. Making reference to the UK’s support of Ukraine against Russia’s illegal invasion earlier this year, he said: “We cannot defend and support the sovereignty of Ukraine, rightly so, and at the same time defend and support the trashing of the sovereignty of the United Kingdom.”
He said: “They have just done badly in Ulster elections. They are using the Northern Ireland Protocol as their explanation they would say, excuse I would say, for not joining a Northern Irish executive under Sinn Fein leadership, because Sinn Fein should be entitled to the chief minister’s position.”Labour peer Lord Triesman said: “Who is refusing to take part in the power-sharing in Northern Ireland? Arguably the most extreme right-wing party anywhere in the United Kingdom, the DUP.
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