Comments on: Boris Johnson’s Brexit “Deal” Screws Northern Ireland

By: Christopher Foxx

Christopher Foxx — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 08:51:00 +0000

“If you’re conservative, pro-Brexit politician who said the backstop threatens the cohesion of the Kingdom, then what the hell do you say to this?

They say the say thing they always say: a lie.

It’ll be some part of “This isn’t really a backstop. And if it is a backstop, it doesn’t threaten the cohesion of the Kingdom. And if it does it threatens our cohesion, but that’s not a bad thing.”
Or a complete denial: “I never said the backstop does threaten our cohesion. Your videos of me saying that are fake news.”

By: muselet

muselet — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 04:57:00 +0000

On the one hand, this may very well be the stupidest deal ever struck by a national government.

On the other hand … erm … give me a minute … no, sorry, there isn’t another hand.

What Parliament will do is hard to predict, at least from 5400 miles away. My five bucks says the DUP will break from the coalition along with some Tories to vote against Boris Johnson’s latest brain fart; essentially, we’ll see a rerun of Theresa May’s difficulties. The big difference is that the Conservative Party won’t push Johnson out the door the way they did May.

Madness. Utter madness.

–alopecia

By: Draxiar

Draxiar — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 19:41:00 +0000

Imagine the legacy of BoJo…almost single handedly responsible for what may be the fracturing of the United Kingdom into single countries.