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The BBC News tonight featured a piece about the failure of Stormont politicians to form a Government and that the invisible border in the Irish Sea was responsible for that failure and that it threatened democracy. ABSOLUTE RUBBISH. The failure is entirely down to Donaldson and the DUP throwing their toys out of the pram because they were beaten in a democratic election. Stuff the electorate seems to be their battle cry.

Of course the reason that there is an invisible border is that Boris and Co were so desperate to "get Brexit done" that they would have sold their grannies to do it. Oven-ready deal, indeed! And now they've got the cheek to complain about the deal they signed off. Everybody seems to have known about the potential problems of an invisible border, except Boris and Co, who all wanted to get the deal signed and slope off to yet another party.

It's a circle that can't be squared. Having rejected staying in the single market and customs union, border checks are inevitable to preserve the EU trade area. If they aren't in the Irish Sea then there has to be a hard border on the island of Ireland, which damages the Good Friday Agreement.

It's that simple.

And who was it that negotiated the protocol ? And who was it that prevented parliament from examining said protocol ? Oh yeah. Yet they have the nerve to expect the EU to sort out their shit.

Thing is NI has actually benefitted economically from the protocol, but the DUP are being given the whip hand to wreck the place to suit Boris. There is something of Putins attitude towards Ukraine in how Boris sees Ireland.