Member

The third is protecting the Belfast/Good Friday agreement in all its dimensions, which the operation of the Windsor Framework is currently violating in relation to, first, the principle of consent from the people; secondly, cross-community consent within Stormont; and, thirdly, democracy. In this context, the only way forward is to reject all attempted accommodations with injustice that arise from seeking to cut the UK in two through regulations such as those before us today. It is to reject these regulations, using them to shine a spotlight on the underlying injustice, exposing the folly of seeking to accommodate rather than call out injustice, and to say instead, “Enough is enough”. No self-respecting country can sacrifice the citizenship of 1.9 million of its people in response to the demands of others, especially when an alternative means exists to rise to this challenge, in the form of mutual enforcement.