The suspension of Northern Ireland’s self-government is the product of failure and neglect by Britain’s Tory government, accelerated and deepened by Brexit, but going back to 2010.
The rot first set in then, when David Cameron stood Conservative general election candidates in alliance with the Ulster Unionist Party, and climaxed in 2017-19 when Theresa May relied upon Democratic Unionist Party MPs for her majority.
But since 2010, trust with other parties, built patiently over decades, has been undermined, if not destroyed. That ignored a fundamental lesson of conflict resolution — and Northern Ireland’s goes back many centuries. Namely, that getting an agreement isn’t the final answer. It’s always a process, never a single event, as South Africans know only too well.
For nationalists and republicans, because an invisible frontier is progress toward their cherished objective of unification with the Republic. Yet the Protocol’s rough edges could have been fixed if Boris Johnson and Liz Truss had negotiated seriously, instead of posturing and dog-whistling to their right.Tory proposals for “green lanes” for goods from Great Britain destined for Northern Ireland only have been all but accepted by the EU, with “red lanes” requiring customs checks in GB restricted to the minority of goods likely to go over the Irish border into the rest of the EU.
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