The US President recently appointed former Congressman Joe Kennedy as Special Envoy to Northern Ireland, a position which has been vacant since Mick Mulvaney left the position at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency in January 2021.
Joe Biden has been slammed for his latest intervention in Brexit, which saw the President appoint Joe Kennedy as Special envoy to Northern Ireland .
DUP MP Ian Paisley Jr said : ‘’it seems to be a sectarian appointment. A pro-Irish American appointing one of the Club –as if this is a job for the boys. This is a perfect example of political sycophancy that one would expect from the Biden administration.’’
The MP joked that the appointment ‘’flatters Joe Kennedy ‘’, adding :’’I don’t know what his economic skill is.’’
He explained : ‘’He is not known for any influence or particular skill in economics , so why would he be known as the man who is to be the whizz kid of the economy of Northern Island?’
While Mr Paisley Jr said he is ‘’not impressed’’, he said: ”We ‘ll measure him not by his name but by his role.’’
The move is seen as an attempt to put pressure on the UK to accept Brussels’ demands the province is in effect under its jurisdiction and broken away from Britain.
Joe Kennedy 111 is a former Congressman who is the grandson of Bobby Kennedy and great grandson of the first Joe Kennedy who was ambassador to the UK.
Mr Kennedy has strong links with Sinn Fein and is par of the Irish American lobby which has pushed Democrat policy into a pro-EU position on the thorny issue of the Northern Ireland protocol
He position has been vacant since Mick Mulvaney left the position a the end of Donald Trump’s presidency in January 2021.
I has been met with fury from the Conservative Party , with one insider telling Express.co.uk that Mr Kennedy ‘s appointment is a ‘’complete wind up for the Conservative party’’, adding that it has ‘’ruffled loads of feathers already’’.
The insider said ,there have already been ‘’lots of rumblings’’ about Mr Biden’s decision, describing the Congressman as a ‘’complete republican’’.
The source added: ’’People aren’t happy about it.’’
Meanwhile, a senior member of the Conservative Party’s European Research Group told Express.co.uk: ‘’When I saw Joe Kennedy named , I thought it as a wind –up to annoy people like me’’
‘’I had to check whether it was April 1 or not . The decision would be ludicrous.’’