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Jim Allister speaking in Glasgow<\/p>\n
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TUV leader Jim Allister in Glasgow<\/p>\n
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TUV leader Jim Allister has told those gathered for \u2018Glasgow Twelfth\u2019 celebrations that post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland are a \u201cdemocratic outrage\u201d and have amounted to a \u201cdeliberate building block for Irish unity\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the very substance and existence of the United Kingdom was at risk because of the NI Protocol and Windsor Framework as NI now shares identical \u201cforeign laws\u201d with the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n
The Windsor Framework was agreed between the government and EU in 2023 following unionist concerns over trade barriers under their original post-Brexit deal, the Northern Ireland Protocol.<\/p>\n
Allister has previously said the framework was “the original protocol by another name”.<\/p>\n
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Jim Allister speaking in Glasgow<\/p>\n
Speaking in Glasgow he said the constitutional basis of Scotland\u2019s membership of the UK, the Act of Union 1707, and Northern Ireland\u2019s, the Act of Union 1800, are identical in form and substance.<\/p>\n
\u201cEach is built on the twin pillars of a political union and an economic union,\u201d he told those in attendance.<\/p>\n
\u201cArticle 3 of each of our Acts of Union affirm a political union through a single sovereign parliament for the whole nation; and each of our Articles 6 guarantee unfettered trade between and within all parts of the Kingdom.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is the latter, of course, that has been trashed by the union-dismantling Windsor Framework, because it fetters trade with NI by establishing an EU border to entrap NI within its territory and control.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhereas England, Scotland and Wales left the EU, Northern Ireland was left behind under its Customs Code and in its single market for goods, meaning in 300 areas of law we are governed by foreign laws we don\u2019t make and can\u2019t change.\u201d<\/p>\n
He described it as \u201ca democratic outrage\u201d and \u201ca deliberate building block for Irish unity\u201d as NI is now governed in those 300 areas by the identical laws as the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n
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TUV leader Jim Allister in Glasgow<\/p>\n
Mr Allister added: \u201cAnd as these are the laws that shape our trade and economy they are inexorably building the stepping stone of an all-Ireland economy, which always was the intended design of the Windsor Framework.<\/p>\n
\u201cHence, why anyone worthy of the name \u2018unionist\u2019 rejects the Windsor Framework in all its parts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jim Allister speaking in Glasgow TUV leader Jim Allister in Glasgow TUV leader Jim Allister has told those…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[50259,23147,1144,29956,16,15,23146],"class_list":{"0":"post-241058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-jim-allister","9":"tag-ni-protocol","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-traditional-unionist-voice","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-windsor-framework"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114802738280739428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}