When the news broke that a withdrawal Brexit agreement had been reached between the British government and the EU Sammy Wilson of the DUP responded in time worn fashion. It was, he said “a punishment beating for the UK because they dared to vote to leave the EU”. Even before he had read the agreement Wilson declared that the DUP would not support it. Later he told Channel 4 News, “If the EU think that what the IRA couldn’t achieve, they’re going to achieve, they have another thought coming to them.”