The essence of our legal challenge was to the lawfulness of the Protocol. The fact the Supreme Court is satisfied it was lawfully made does not in the least affect its political unacceptability, nor its dire constitutional consequences.
Indeed, the findings of the Supreme Court greatly strengthen our case against the Protocol. The declaration that the Protocol has suspended Article 6 of the Acts of Union confirms everything we have said about it dismantling the Union.
Article 6 is the bedrock of the economic union that is the United Kingdom. Now, the Supreme Court says it has been disapplied under the Protocol vis-a-vis Northern Ireland. This has huge constitutional ramifications.
Likewise, our subjection to the laws of a foreign legislature, the European Parliament, and a foreign court, are a constitutional affront that no unionist can accept. In fact, surely, no democrat can accept such colonialism.
If anything, the Supreme Court ruling must embolden the political campaign against the Protocol, because that is now the critical arena of challenge. There can be no let-up or discharge in the political war against the Protocol, or else our place in the United Kingdom will never be restored.
It is hard to see how Stormont ever returns in circumstances where Art 6 of the Acts of Union is in suspension.
Unless unionism at large is determined to repeat the potential armed insurrectionary nature of the anti-Home Rule opposition of 1912-14 (the worst mistake we ever made, in my opinion, for which we've paid the price in blood this past century), or the widespread "junta" - Brian Faulkner's word, not mine - that lamentably brought down Sunningdale in 1974 (the second worst mistake unionism ever made, and which prolonged the Troubles by another quarter-century), then bombastic calls for the escalation of protests against the accursed Protocol by Mr. Allister and others will though well-meaning, ultimately, be exercises in futility.
We all know Westminster cares not a jot for unionist concerns unless and until they align with their own periodically, happy to…
8/2/23
Mr Allister, KC MLA, I have just written this comment copied below, prior to reading your latest piece on this site. I believe it might be relevant to what you have wisely stated today, in the aftermath of the Supreme Court case determination.
Thank you,
Dr C.K. McClinton
Ulster Christians
www.ulsterchristians.org
Email: watchman696@tutanota.com
8/2/23
Jeffry Donaldson, MP states: "The Protocol represents an existential threat to the future of Northern Ireland’s place within the Union. The longer the Protocol remains, the more it will harm the Union itself."
My Reply: This, Sir, is the general crux of the Protocol problem - the Protocol has to go.
However, while stating the obvious here, in this section of your…