The Loyalist Communities Council chair criticised the post-Brexit trade confusion on “a mischievous Irish desire to reignite strident nationalism”.
MEMBERS OF THE Loyalist Communities Council, which represents three loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland, have appeared before a Westminster committee this morning to explain loyalists issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol.
I really appeal to them to join the effort to rectify this Protocol. It may require [Ireland's Minister for Foreign Affairs] Simon Coveney to fall on his sword, but is the Peace Process not more important to the Northern Ireland Protocol? He said that reports from Michel Barnier’s recently published book about Brexit negotiations said customs checks at EU ports on goods coming from Ireland had been suggested at one stage – meaning Ireland would join a UK customs union.
The NI Affairs Committee chair Simon Hoare pointed out that Ireland was negotiating through the EU on Brexit issues, and couldn’t negotiation bilaterally. Jim Wilson said that he wants peace as much as any other person: “No one fought harder for peace than I did… I fought against and stopped the conflict because I wanted a better way of living for my kids.” The Good Friday Agreement to me was a pathway to peace and reconciliation, and it’s been anything but that.
Keys said that he was arrested during a recent demonstration at Sandy Row in south Belfast, despite the fact that he was there “trying to dissuade a 13-year-old and his brother from engaging in the violence”.
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