Sinn Féin's Michelle Gildernew alongside Michelle O'Neill and Gerry Adams in 2017. Image: PA Archive/PA Images Sinn Féin's Michelle Gildernew alongside Michelle O'Neill and Gerry Adams in 2017. Image: PA Archive/PA Images A SINN FÉIN candidate in one of Northern Ireland’s hardest-fought election battlegrounds has predicted that unionist farmers will help her retain the seat.
“People are really, really concerned. Unionist farmers are looking at their future in a post-Brexit UK, and they’re frightened, and they’ve very good right to be.” “And Brexit has done that. People now know, if I have to choose which union I am going to be part of, I might pick the European Union in a united Ireland rather than the union with Brexit.”
“Boris Johnson’s deal is a bad deal for Northern Ireland overall, economically and for businesses, simply because it puts a regulatory position between Northern Ireland and GB and that’s difficult, that’s difficult for businesses today,” he said. Elliott rejects the suggestion that the tie-up with the DUP undercuts his party’s efforts to blame them over Brexit.
“What we want to do is try to ensure that we maintain that, that we strengthen that and we build on that because we’re part of the fifth largest economy in the world being part of the United Kingdom.”
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