Source: Traditional Unionist Voice – Northern Ireland
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“The Irish Sea border has not operated in relation to the movement of agricultural vehicles and machinery until now.
“But now, in the latest tightening of the noose, the EU by an express law (2023/1231) has dictated that all such movements from GB to NI must be subject to their prescribed labelling, because it is their Writ, not the UK’s, which runs.
“The EU law which imposes this regime is one of the most audacious since Brexit, because it involves a foreign entity, the EU, making the law in the UK. It epitomises the sovereignty grab of Brussels, which cares nothing that the inter-UK trade in machinery will be inhibited- all with the common Protocol design of building north/south trade which discouraging our east/west trade and economy.
“With every week that passes the big lie of the dud Donaldson/DUP deal that they had removed the Irish Sea border is exposed, while farmers and consumers continue to pay the price of being ruled by laws we don’t make and can’t change.”