Pound-shop Jamie Bryson: DUP 'should go back to electorate once NI Protocol Bill becomes law'

The Legal Eagle and loyalist activist Jamie Bryson has been advising the DUP they need to test support for the Westminster legislation overriding the NI Protocol with the unionist electorate (after the horse has already bolted). 

    Pound-shop lawyer Jamie Bryson with      his hero Big Jeff as he advising Jeffrey       to do next regarding the fight over                           the the NI Protocol 

           Wednesday 6th July, 2022. 

Mr Bryson praised DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson MP as someone who had “stood firm and kept his word” over refusing to re-enter government at Stormont until there were radical changes to the Protocol.

But he said that if the NI Protocol Bill is made law in Parliament then the DUP will have to go back to unionist voters to receive endorsement for the legislative changes to the post-Brexit agreement.

He said: “The DUP went to the electorate for a mandate of no return to power sharing until the Protocol was removed. They, along with the TUV, secured a huge unionist mandate for this approach and recent polls demonstrated that the vast majority of the unionist electorate remain of the view that it’s a binary choice between power-sharing or the Protocol.”

Mr Bryson continued: “That is why he (Jeffrey) was being cheered as he walked in the Centenary parade. His strong approach, and that of Jim Allister, has galvanised and created a unity within the unionist electorate.

“It is important to maintain this unity and it is for this reason that I think once the Protocol Bill becomes law - hopefully with an amendment to ensure the exercise of all powers going forward to be consistent with the Act of Union - then unionism should go back to the electorate and seek a fresh mandate on the way forward.

“It will make for more stable and durable government if political unionism go back to the electorate with a potential solution on the Protocol, and seek unionism’s endorsement of it.”

He said there were still “some reasonable concerns” about the bill passing currently through Westminster and whether it can remove the Union-threatening aspects of the Protocol.

“It is for this reason that political unionism should go back to the electorate and seek its approval for the way forward,” the loyalist blogger and campaigner said.

With many thanks to the: News Letter and Henry McDonald for the original publication. 

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