Editorial: Supreme Court ruling on NI Protocol a bruising encounter with legal reality for unionists and Brexiteers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Brexit was always bad politics but any solution to its problems will be found through negotiation and compromise, not in the courts and certainly not on the streets.
57% : If Brexit was - as the DUP's controversial London newspaper advertisement of the time of the referendum proclaimed - intended to allow the British parliament to 'Take back control', then it is difficult to see how its cheerleaders could complain about that same parliament asserting its will by backing the Withdrawal Agreement and the NI Protocol that flowed from it.
44% : They had challenged the legality of the protocol deal between the UK and EU, which had been agreed by Boris Johnson when he was prime minister, on three grounds: that it was incompatible with the Act of Union; that it had changed the constitutional status of the north without the consent of the majority in a poll; and that the British government did not have the power to enable the assembly to vote on whether the protocol should continue without the need for cross-community support.

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