Boris Johnson has once again vowed that he might do something about the European Union exerting damaging control over Northern Ireland by changing his Brexit deal, after over a year of doing nothing.
Socially conservative, Christian conservatives in the DUP, the leading British unionist party in Northern Ireland, may be less likely to be persuaded that Johnson has their backs due to some positions set out on in his article not related to Brexit which they are unlikely to be happy about.
One is his vow that his party will “intervene to ensure that women and girls have access to abortion services in Northern Ireland that are their legal right, following the failure of the [Northern Irish] Executive to deliver this,” despite the fact this would normally be treated as a devolved issue and there is no consensus in favour of it, given the DUP’s strong opposition.
Another is his assertion that there will be “no blanket amnesty” for people accused of crimes during the Troubles, in which the Provisional Irish Republican Army waged a terror campaign against the Armed Forces, police officers, and ordinary citizens, and Irish nationalists were occasionally subject to reprisals or the disproportionate use of force.
Unionists and military campaigners have long complained that prosecutions of often very elderly men accused of crimes during this period are invariably veterans, not nationalist terrorists — in large part because, despite Johnson’s claims of “no blanket amnesty”, almost 200 terrorist fugitives were given so-calledduring Tony Blair’s premiership telling them they were no longer wanted, and judges later ruled this meant they could not be prosecuted.
Johnny Mercer MP, Britain’s inaugural Veterans Minister — and a veteran of Afghanistan himself — was unceremoniously sacked from Johnson’s government after he gave notice he was going to resign for the repeated failure to stand up for those who served in Northern Ireland, causing him toBoJo’s Govt a ‘Cesspit’ of ‘Snakes’ and ‘Cowards’: Sacked Veterans Minister
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