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well, geoffrey, tom donaldson is talking in terms of a couple of weeks of thinking about the agreement and balling it over and studying the small print. but to day a colleague of his e and pays the junior an empty and the house of commons declared that he thought it wasn't going to work. and that storm would not be re established on the government would not be re established in northern ireland for some time to come. so they're mixed messages coming from the d u p. m. what peter are, what jeffrey donaldson said about the european court of justice. it is interesting because initially opposition to the protocol was driven by the friction surrounding trade between great britain and northern ireland and was only at a later stage that union started talking about the e c. j as a central issue. and so that, that was added into the mix a little bit later and has been brought to prominence. and the danger i think is that there is in this new agreement, there is a mechanism that would allow 30 members of the 90 member assembly in northern ireland to challenge the application of you law and alert

well we looked at this on friday and the language coming from geoffrey donaldson as he acted, action said there was progress. he was happy with it. and of course, sir jeffrey as the head of the dup, but then he said there was more work to be done. and this is all round the european court of justice and ruling over laws inside northern ireland. so northern ireland with divergent is has to follow european laws. we are caught inside that and of course there's no political representation in europe from the other island because of course our meps are gone. but we have to look at the protocol of what it actually is. it's a trade deal. that's exactly what it is and it's designed to protect the integrity of the single market. so if we want to break it right down and look at it , britain break it right down and look at it, britain was one of the main contrib hitters to the eu. it then left and it was held to account for that. so it would have to pay lots of to money get back in and out of europe with its goods. if we look at this in reality, northern ireland was held on the borders of the eu.