If the government recognises considerable financial need in NI and then makes the offer of meeting such need conditional on the DUP doing what it wants, then, that by any definition is a bribe.
HMG needs to step up and govern, not play politics with deserving need.
If money, even £3billion in smoke and mirrors, to abandon principle and become Protocol implementers buys off some, it will not impact those whose unionism is rooted in principle, not pounds.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/JimAllister/status/1734239331470946644#m

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