Jim Allister said:-
“It is no surprise that someone who thinks a republican ballad, like ‘Up the Ra’ is just a “nice song to sing” should share the same bloodthirsty goal of an all-Ireland Republic.
“It is notable that Varadkar refused to comment on the prospects of an all-Ireland until the Protocol and Windsor Framework was obtained. Now, he boasts of its prospects. In my view this is because he recognises the vehicle towards unification that the Protocol provides through its creation of the stepping stone of an all-Ireland economy. All of which is why any thinking unionist should be determined never to accept or operate the Union-dismantling Protocol. Irish unity is the intended outcome of the Protocol and thus it behoves every unionist to thwart it.
“Varadkar might also be emboldened by the defeatist and foolish musings of unelected pontificators who boast of their unionist roots and credentials but play the republican game as useful idiots.”