AN EMOTIONAL Irish caller urged Brexiteers to remember the importance of the Good Friday Agreement during an emotional phone-in appearance.
Pro-leave Tory MPs like Priti Patel and Boris Johnson are among those urging the UK government to make more concessions on the issue of the Irish backstop in any Brexit deal.
Patel courted controversy with her suggestion that Theresa May use the threat of food shortages across Ireland in the event of a no deal Brexit to convince them to do away with the backstop altogether.
But speaking in an emotional call on James O’Brien’s LBC radio show, Martin from Mayo was eager to remind everyone of the role the Good Friday Agreement played in helping The Troubles come to an end.
"It was an absolutely horrendous time," he told O’Brien. "But in spite of how horrific it was, how long it went on for, it seems to have gone over the heads of the Leavers.
"They said they knew exactly what they were voting for. I simply do not believe them. How many of them thought, when they were going to the polls, of the catastrophic effect this would have on Northern Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement?
"The names of all the places where these terrible deeds happened, they echo in the memory and will go on doing so.
"Bloody Friday, Bloody Sunday, McGurk's Bar, Enniskillen, Gracefield, Omagh, Loughinisland - the list goes on.
"And across the water, you had the London Docklands, Birmingham bombings, the tavern, the Mulberry Bush, Warrington. I will never forget those two little boys who lost their life, Timmy Parry and Jonathan Ball. God bless them.
"Iain Duncan Smith, David Davis, Owen Paterson, Priti Patel - these people, they are criminally irresponsible when they talk about the backstop.
"It's a fantasy land, there is no upside to Brexit. It's a horrible concoction of things that finally came together."
Powerful call from Martin in Mayo to @mrjamesob, paying tribute to the innocent victims during the Troubles, and the pure arrogance from Iain Duncan Smith, Priti Patel & their ilk to refer to the Northern Irish backstop/border issue as a 'red herring'...how dare they! @LBC
— ®️I©️🇰y ☮︎ (@VividRicky) December 11, 2018
@mrjamesob @LBC In tears listening to the gentleman from Ireland now ... talking about the sheer awfulness of the times prior to the Good Friday Agreement. God bless you sir. #peoplesvote
— 🌻Tracy Ballarini 🇺🇦 (@knittinghappy) December 11, 2018
The call prompted an emotional response from listeners online, some of whom took to Twitter to show their support for Martin’s pleas.
