The Windsor Framework
governments are only promising extra American billions in exchange ‘ for selling out to Sinn Féin and Dublin ’ and ‘ when America talks about corporate investment, we get the crumbs and that investment really all ends up in the Republic . ’ So in the near future, it really does seem that Northern Ireland's economy would suffer more by accepting the insufficient and overly restrictive Windsor Framework, than it would suffer by not reconvening Stormont. As Jeffrey Donaldson himself said ‘ President Biden is offering the hope of further American investment, which we always welcome. But fundamental to the success of our economy is our ability to trade within our biggest market, which is of course the United Kingdom. ’
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