ED Deedigan may be right in suggesting that the Government’s discussions with the DUP look hypocritical when it had been so quick to condemn Jeremy Corbyn’s engagement with Sinn Fein in the decades before the IRA gave up the gun.
There is, however, one material difference between the Conservative and Labour parties on this score. Voters in Northern Ireland are able to vote for Conservative candidates and may thereby express their disapproval of any arrangement with the DUP as they see fit.
The Labour Party by contrast refuses to put up candidates in the province. Jeremy Corbyn supports this shameful disenfranchisement of the local electorate, both Protestant and Catholic.
Will Mr Deedigan therefore join with me in urging Mr Corbyn to end his profoundly undemocratic treatment of Northern Ireland’s voters?
MICHAEL SMYTH
Lockeridge
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