Royal Black Institution calls for removal of NI Protocol

The Royal Black Institution, which has several preceptories in the area, has expressed its “deep concerns” over the NI Protocol.
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In a statement issued by the organisation, it said that the protocol “has no democratic legitimacy, does not have the consent of the people who live in Northern Ireland and breaches the Good Friday Agreement and the Act of the Union”.

The Institution said that the protocol diminished the sovereignty of the United Kingdom and people’s citizenship here as an integral part of the UK.

“The fact that the EU threatened to use the protocol to unilaterally stop the movement of vaccines to GB and Northern Ireland in the time of a pandemic, clearly demonstrates that this protocol, rather than protect the citizens of Northern Ireland, puts the lives of all our citizens (both in Northern Ireland and in Great Britain) at severe risk.

Larne port. (Photo: Jonathan Porter/PressEye)Larne port. (Photo: Jonathan Porter/PressEye)
Larne port. (Photo: Jonathan Porter/PressEye)

“The Royal Black Institution therefore demands equality for the citizens of Northern Ireland by the removal of the NI Protocol to allow our members to continue and further develop social and responsible citizenship as full, free and equal citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,” the organisation said.

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