Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister
“With renewed talk about easements and adjustments touching on the implementation of the EU Protocol, I wish to make it clear that such tinkering will not address the iniquity of the Protocol, nor render it acceptable.
“Of course, the petulant checks and fettering of trade are utterly unacceptable, it is the constitutional damage done by the Protocol – centred on the transfer of sovereignty to Brussels, with a huge swathe of our laws not made in Belfast or London but by foreign institutions – which is key and must be reversed and that cannot be done so long as the Protocol exists. It is not a matter of ameliorating the Protocol but obliterating it. Nothing less can restore Northern Ireland’s position as an integral part of the United Kingdom.
“No one who believes in the Union can settle for or endorse this imposed and undemocratic Protocol, howsoever it is tweaked.”