Morning Star silent on Irish impasse
The tragi-comedy that is the Democratic Unionist Party’s inability to deal with the consequences of Brexit continues. Last week they attempted to pull the plug on the Irish sea border checks that are required under the protocol negotiated by Johnson and Lord Frost (even though both of those now talk as though they had nothing to do with it). Then the DUP first minister Paul Givan resigned, leaving the province without a functioning government. This is the culmination of a series of disastrous misjudgements going back to the DUP’s original decision to jump on the Leave bandwagon in the...