Johnson demonstrates yet again that he is unfit for office

In this, quite remarkable clip:

“You must be furious with whoever signed up to a deal this bad?”

Boris Johnson wants to make reforms to the Northern Ireland Protocol, @PGMcNamara asks the prime minister why he signed it in the first place? pic.twitter.com/BJkPVuJWK3

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) May 16, 2022

Johnson says he signed the NI protocol because he ‘hoped & believed our [European] friends would not necessarily want to apply it.’

So that was yet another lie that the Brexit deal was ‘oven-ready’.

He now admits that he simply signed an internationl treaty in the full expectation that it would not apply to him.

Yet, as John Grace in the Guardian puts it:

[Brexit is] one of the biggest acts of self-harm and even the Bank of England and the Treasury select committee can barely bring themselves to mention it. Truly, we are screwed.