UUP MLA @BeattieDoug hits out at Sinn Fein MP @ChrisHazzardSF over hard border civil disobedience warning

Nov 29, 2017, 09:27 AM

Unionist anger this morning after Sinn Fein's Chris Hazzard said a hard border after Brexit could lead to civil disobedience. The South Down MP told a Westminster press conference that "If we see a situation where we are going to have border customs posts or any particular type of hardware, I would think that would be something people won't want. "And I go even further. An awful lot of the focus has been on maybe dissident republican organisations and threats, but it is wider than that - it goes right down to a feeling of civil disobedience. "When you talk to normal people in civic society they are very, very angry and frustrated at even the thought of a customs post going up." So is that a realistic view of the potential fall out of a hard Brexit or are they reckless comments from a senior politician? Stephen got reaction from UUP MLA Doug Beattie.