By Willie Drennan
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Sometime in the distant future Stormont might, or might not, get to decide the flag it flies. |
Boris
has been a shining light amidst the dull world of the political
elite. A charmer, comedian and lovable clown. But he is the Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
and that's no joke.
Boris
had opportunity to go down in history as the 21st Century
Churchillian hero who led a sovereign Britain out across the seven
seas to befriend the world. Instead he seems to have chosen the much
easier well-trodden path of achieving glory within the confines of
the European Union Project. They are just loving him now in Brussels,
Strasbourg, Berlin and Bantry Bay.
There
are many reasons why I think this Treaty is bad for the whole of the
UK but one major deception in the Boris version of the Theresa EU
Treaty is the claim that the Irish Backstop is gone. It's not gone,
it's there in Article 18 of the Irish Protocol section of the
proposed Treaty. And worse, it is now Backstop-Plus.