Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“Trivergence, as expounded at today’s Windsor Framework committee, whereby even successful activation of the ‘Stormont Brake’ would still leave NI under EU law (the unamended law then no longer followed anywhere else in the EU), is a demonstration of both the folly of the UK’s surrender of sovereignty to Brussels over the laws governing our goods economy and of the impotence of the Stormont Brake.
“If all the Stormont Brake can achieve is to leave us stranded under old EU law, because the UK ceded sovereignty to Europe to make such laws and, therefore, can’t fix resulting anachronisms, then, the threat of Trivergence will become a powerful disincentive to object to new foreign laws and instead the impetus will be to just go along with whatever laws are made and changed by the EU!
“The Stormont Brake then turns out to be a clever device to induce the retention of all evolving EU law, as being left in limbo and alone under old EU law will present as ‘the worst of all worlds’.
“All of this flows from the folly of the Donaldson Deal accepting the continuance of the vast plethora of hundreds of EU laws in Annex 2 of the Protocol. Now, we are trapped whatever way we turn. Well done Jeffrey!”