The DUP MP Sammy Wilson has escalated his criticism of Joe Biden this morning, suggested that he and US government are partly to blame for power-sharing not operating.
In an interview with TalkTV, Wilson claimed that Biden had been “trying to force the UK to fit into the EU mould” during the negotiations on implementing Brexit. And, restating his opposition to the Windsor framework, the revised version of the Northern Ireland protocol negotiated this year, Wilson said Biden was wrong it.
After explaining his objections to the Windsor framework, Wilson said:
This is, of course, the result of a prime minister who claims to be a Conservative and unionist prime minister bowing to pressure, partly at least, from the Americans. And Joe Biden has played his part. He has to accept the responsibility which he has in the institutions of the Good Friday agreement not working today and also in the political stability in Northern Ireland being impacted impacted by foreign interference from the EU, back by foreign interference by the American government, and unfortunately responded to by a spineless government at Westminster. I hope that [Biden] doesn’t come here and lecture us about democracy and getting the Stormont assembly going. He wouldn’t accept any interference in the affairs of America by outside bodies or outside governments, I don’t think he should expect us to respond that either.
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Wilson also said the DUP “can’t possibly go back into Stormont” if the UK government was not willing to “undo the damage” done by the Windsor framework.
Source: The Guardian
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