SAMMY WILSON LABELLED A LUNDY AND BOOED OFF STAGE AT THE LATEST PROTOCOL PROTEST IN THE PREDOMINTELY LOYALIST TOWN OF MARKETHILL

DUP MP Sammy Wilson was booed and called a "Lundy" as he addressed an anti-Protocol (disaster) rally with TUV leader Jim Allister on Friday night. 

The DUP veteran called on the people shouting to listen, saying the "division which some are starting to display here tonight" only "gives succor to our enemies" in reference to other political parties such as Sinn Féin, SDLP and the Alliance Party. But the shouts of "traitor" and "Lundy" could be heard shouted loudly from the crowd and "withdraw your candidates" as well as "get off the stage". The DUP veteran was constantly interrupted as he tried to deliver a speech at the event at the predominantly loyalist town of Markethill in Co Armagh. At his address in the town, Sammy (the mouthpiece) compared the EU's handling of Brexit in the 'North of Ireland' to Vladimir Putin's annexation of Crimea in Ukraine. However, his comments were drowned out as angry crowd members accused his party of botching the Brexit shambles. 

It was claimed on some newslets that thousands were attendance at the anti-Protocol protest the word on the streets and posted on Social network platforms told a much different story. It was more in the region of around 200 but the bands spread out made it look like there was many more than there really was! 

Russia annexed Crimea in Southern Ukraine in 2014 and amassed tens of thousands of troops on the Ukrainian border within the last few weeks amid international concerns that Mr Putin is poised to launch a full-scale military invasion. 

"The Irish Sea border imposes the will of nationalists on unionists," Sammy said. 

"It trashes the principle of cross-community consent, undermines the Acts of Union and breaches the constitutional settlement in the North of Ireland. 

" Through the *orthern Protocol, the EU in effect is annexing *orthern Ireland just as much as President Putin has already annexed part of Ukraine and is seeking to undermine the country's independence further." 

At one point in Sammy's (the mouthpiece) speech, the TUV leader Jim Allister had to personally intervene and appealed to the crowd to hear him out and let him speak. He then urged those in attendance to listen to the speakers. He then added: "I do appeal for you to listen to the speechs. You'll get your opportunity at the polls to express yourselves, but tonight it's important that we listen to all unionist voices. 

The Protocol has created new economic barriers on trade between the North of Ireland and the rest of the UK. Agreed by the UK and EU to ensuring no hard border in Ireland post-Brexit, it has instead moved regulatory and customs checks in the Irish Sea, with the North of Ireland remaining in the EU single market for goods as is the rest of Ireland. The region also applies the EU customs code at its ports as it must do as Ireland as a whole is one country and also is an Island. Unionists and loyalists claim the arrangements have undermined the sovereignty of the UK, but a majority of Assembly members at Stormont support the Protocol, as does the majority of the electorate here in the north, who voted to Remain part of the European Union and against Brexit. 

The majority in the Stormont Assembly believe it offers the North of Ireland a degree of protection from the negative economic consequences of the Brexit disaster. The EU and the UK are continuing to renegotiate parts of the Protocol in a bid to agree a different way forward to try and reduce some of the bureaucracy associated with it and make the Protocol more acceptable to unionists and loyalists. But the Protocol itself cannot be scrapped (as unionists are calling for) it can only be altered.

How it all started 

How it all ended. 

There has been increased focus on whether any deal would retain the element of the Protocol that allows traders in the north to sell freely within the UK internal market and the EU single market - the so-called "best of both worlds" dual market access. 

Sammy (the mouthpiece) said: "Boris Johnson has rightly led the campaign to stop Putin undermining the democratic wishes of the people of Ukraine, and he has even greater responsibility as the PM of the UK to prevent the annexation of the North of Ireland by Brussels by revoking the NI Protocol. 

THE PROTOCOL PROTEST WAS SEEN AS AN ELECTION OPPORTUNITY FOR BOTH STORMONT PARTIES BUT SADLY FOR THEM IT MASSIVELY BACKFIRED!

        SAMMY WILSON HITS BACK AT TUV                      AND EUROPEAN UNION

End of story.