The Benefits of the Union ⸮

The Benefits of the Union ⸮

It’s a phrase we hear all too often, dropped into political speeches or in answers to questions to journalists by Unionist politicians when discussing the constitutional issue. ‘The benefits of the Union’, the shorthand for the case for Northern Ireland’s continued membership within the United Kingdom that is apparently so obvious that it needs no elaboration. In decades past perhaps it didn’t need elaborating. The United Kingdom was the roaring…