The Belfast Newsletter, August 10, Sammy Wilson MP
The announcement by a major haulage company that it intends to abandon Northern Ireland because of the difficulties caused by the devastating and damaging deals with the European Union should ring alarm bells throughout businesses and the public.
These agreements have been negotiated by successive spineless and supine prime ministers.
Morgan McLernon are a part of a major United Kingdom haulage consortium. If they are overwhelmed by the restrictions of the Windsor Framework and the decisions by retailers to look for supplies in the Irish Republic instead of Great Britain then how can we expect smaller companies to overcome the massive bureaucracy and economic redistribution which result from the Windsor Framework.
What is surprising is the silence of business organisations in Northern Ireland which despite the implications for their members have meekly accepted the assurances given by the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, and the secretary of state, Chris Heaton-Harris, without questioning the contradictions between the EU and the UK versions of the Windsor Framework.
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