Nigel Dodds, now the ex-MP for North Belfast, was instrumental in undermining the almost-done deal of early last year. He bet the house on a Westminster-only strategy, imitating James Molyneaux and Enoch Powell in the lead-in to the Anglo-Irish Agreement. The question is whether the union of Great Britain and the North can survive. Specifically, can the union of England and Scotland continue as the common entity called Great Britain? One depicts ‘The Union of the Crowns’, another ‘The Apotheosis of James’, attended by the allegorical figures England and Scotland.

Source: Irish Examiner December 17, 2019 20:03 UTC