Member

This is the greatest myth at the heart of the framework. Its much-flaunted purported objective was to protect the Belfast/Good Friday agreement, but in disapplying the core cross-community safeguards central to that agreement it has cut a huge hole in it. The framework does not protect the Belfast agreement but rather rewrites and reinterprets it for the sole benefit of Irish nationalists, the Irish Government and the European Union. There is no self-respecting unionist or democrat who can or should validate this illegitimate consent vote, because to do so would be to legitimise the claim that the protocol framework is consistent with the Belfast/Good Friday agreement. It is not and it never was, and nothing that has come subsequently, including the worthless Safeguarding the Union deal, has altered that reality.