Irish Deputy Prime Minister accuses British Prime Minister of ‘shock’ made huge mistakes Regarding the draft protocol. The Northern Ireland Protocol The United kingdom The Protocol to its Withdrawal Agreement from the European Union (Brexit), which states that from 1 January 2021, various rules will apply to Great Britain and Northern Ireland in many cases in order to maintain the internal borders of the island of Ireland, the Irish-Irish border crossing unchecked.
Leo Varadkar says Boris Johnson’s government was undemocratic and disrespectful, accusing him of dishonesty and dishonesty. The boss made a sharp attack on BBCIn an interview Thursday evening, a few days after the Northern Ireland Protocol Act – which It could invalidate the UK’s exit from the European Union Overcoming the first hurdle in the House of Commons.
The opinion of the people of Ireland is ignored
“I think it’s a strategic mistake for those who want to keep the union, because if they keep imposing things on Northern Ireland that a clear majority of the people don’t want, that means more people will turn away from the union. This is a strange policy from a supposedly Irish government,” said the Irish deputy prime minister. They want to protect the union.
Varadkar, who will succeed Michel Martin as prime minister this year, said he considered it “shocking and hard to accept” Downing Street’s desire to unilaterally amend the protocol.
What the British government is doing now is very undemocratic and disrespectful to the people of Northern Ireland because they are taking that power from the Assembly. A proper government will honor the treaty it accepts and abide by international law. It is not normal for a democratic government in a decent country to sign a treaty and then try to pass a by-law to bypass it
– said Varadkar, who rejected the statements of British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who said that the solutions proposed by the European Union would exacerbate bureaucratic obstacles. “Well, obviously there are people who can say that a square is a circle. That is simply not the case.”
Commenting on Northern Ireland Minister Brandon Lewis’ statement that relations in Dublin were “great”, Varadkar said: “I have never seen relations so bad in my political life. London did not want to cooperate with Dublin, Quarrel with BrusselsAnd in Belfast he was not impartial. Adrian O’Neill, the British ambassador to Ireland, refuted Truss’s op-ed in which he defended the law of protocol. He said this would destabilize Northern Ireland by creating a legal and political vacuum.
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