Boris Johnson agreed in the final hours of the Northern Ireland Protocol negotiations that there would be customs declarations on goods exiting Northern Ireland to Britain, despite the fact that just three weeks later he told businesses in the North there would be"no forms, no checks, no barriers of any kind…," according to a detailed new account of the protocol negotiations.
'Inside the Deal: How the EU got Brexit' done, by Stefaan De Rynck, a close aide to the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier, will be published shortly. The first suggestion of Northern Ireland somehow staying in the EU's single market as a way to avoid a hard border came from an Irish diplomat, who said Brussels should look at the experience of west Germany, which since 1957 had not imposed EEC customs and regulatory checks on east German goods because Bonn had not recognised east Germany as a separate country.
The memoir also refutes the notion, promoted by unionists and Brexiteers, that it was Leo Varadkar who hardened Ireland’s position when he became Taoiseach in March 2017 by ending talk of a hi-tech solution to the border. The working paper circulated by the European Commission to member states included the proposal that, in order to protect North-South cooperation and the all-island economy, there should be"no regulatory divergence" from EU single market rules in Northern Ireland, if other solutions could not be found.
When the text was published, Mrs May told the House of Commons that"no British prime minister" could ever accept a customs border in the Irish Sea. Following Boris Johnson’s ascent to Downing Street in July 2019, Mr De Rynck describes how his promise to"bin the backstop" was gradually eroded in the autumn of 2019.
Everything he said, has turned to rice pudding.
arabugsy Surely you are not suggesting he lied ?
pleaseletmevote
RebetikoWalrus The liar in person!
a lie? Oh surely not
Well that’s a surprise
Omg he’s a liar… he lied?! NO WAAAY🤪😱🫣
Johnson is a proven liar
If you are a Tory MP you will always do well, it’s not what you know 🤔
Vote for the candidates who re-joun EU next year!
You mean he lied? Incredible he’d been so honest before this!
No surprise there! Sadly.
Brexit was the worst act af treason in UK history, and the Kleptofascist liars responsible for it should be in prison.
He's a lying sack of s***. Can't trust anything that falls out of his mouth....
AliBee9 I wonder, do you think he could be, a liar ?
What ! He Lied 🤥
Johnson lied. I'm shocked.
A perpetual fugitive from himself, Johnson says and will say whatever enters his alleged mind, that he feels is most apt to get him out of whatever particular dodge, his prior lies have ensnared him.
All part of the 'Get BREXIT Bodged' strategy.
That’s cos some people chose to believe a lifelong liar
williamcrawley Corbyn wasn’t a leader though 🤣
A perpetual fugitive from himself, Johnson says and will say whatever enters his alleged mind, that he feels is most apt to get him out of whatever particular dodge, he finds his prior lies have ensnared him.
So he lied again
Did former PM liar Johnson lie again TomTugendhat?
A liar is lying again. 🙄 Bstrd BorisJohnson
What? Are you suggesting he inadvertently misled us?
The dup millionaires plan to keep Catholics Out of being first minister a SF mother! The protocol is a smokescreen for the DUP millionaires not to let a irish catholic mother be First Minister!
More lies. He cannot be trusted ever again.
perhaps Johnson will bloviate about it in his latest book
Don’t see why “a new book” is relevant. Both those facts were common knowledge at the time. We were all RT’g the heck out of the video of him making that promise, and the text of the protocol has never been concealed!!
eyejosh But it's Boris Johnson we're talking about here...liar liar mouth on 🔥
A society that cannot bring a crook like Johnson to book is no society at all. Prison or, if the establishment continues to protect him, byhisankles
Who'd give the time of day to reading anything this compulsive liar writes ?
He’s a lying b*stard
Am I surprised? No. He told the DUP there’d be no border down the Irish Sea. Fools believed him.
Anyone surprised by this
msm_monitor Johnsons a fucking liar? Who knew eh !!!
Twunt.
With any luck his book will contain arrest-able material, and he’ll get banged up.
Boris says what he wants the recipient of his voiced words to hear, hence the words on a subject will change, sometimes subtly, other times vastly different. Summary: he will say what it suits him to say….
Stop the presses! Johnson is a shameless, untrustworthy liar. Who could ever negotiate with the toad?
Well of course he did he’s an inveterate liar!
Yes but you forgot Johnson is a liar. Sunak emulating his fellow criminal does much the same.
Boris Johnson has selective memory & reputation to make few notes at any meeting personally so what U expect? Result of this mistake for N Ireland= Unionist Community is bitter at breaking of promises made &ineffectual trade between GB &NI All in all trade needs workable treaty.
Johnson lied? I’m shocked!
Boris is a lying Conservative c**t - end of!!! niprotocol Brexit
He's a liar.......🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
C⚰️nt
You can say what you like about Johnson but he will always be a man of his word…….
I see no sensationalism in compulsive liar, Boris Johnson, told a lie.
we all know he is a liar....
Well didn't tell the truth on anything else so I'm not in the least surprised
msm_monitor Anyone surprised? Naw didnae think so
BobCrilly2 The little (ok biiig) liar 🤣
Johnson’s says any old thing whatever anyone wants to hear !
D’pfeffel, pathological liar
Oh no. Don't tell me he lied?
Typical of bojo, say one thing , mean the opposite, screwing people over is what he did best.
You don’t say!
He is the world's best liar
A liar who lies. Well I never.....
Why would ANYONE (with the possible exception of Nadine) be surprised at this….
He was a liability and still is.
He was probably pissed
He totally lied. What’s new.
Well he lied what a decking suprise
Liar
The Tory’s have always managed to get the DUP to eat from the palm of their hand and that’s been the key to their success in NI. We saw Mrs May do a deal with them, involving money going to the NI, but she was only giving them money they should’ve been getting
Don't tell me Johnson was lying?
This Boris Johnson?
About time we had a recount
We all know he's an inveterate liar.
He's just a bawbag
What a surprise, the human turd lied again.
He’s a pathological liar.
Does that make him a liar?
Aye but he got all the big decisions correct. So they tell us.
Pants on fire…….as always
Boris Johnson is a lying narcissist who will say anything at any time if he feels it’s in his interests
He just lies when he opens his mouth?
He was elected by the Conservative Party. You get what you vote for.
Johnson was a stranger to the truth and the worse PM the UK ever had.
I remember him while visiting northern ireland saying there would be no border checks when anyone with an ounce of wit knew that that wasn't going to happen.
HelenvBel Does that surprise anyone?
Johnson and his lies. The dopey DUP/ Orange Order believed him 😂
At what point will there be any consequences for the bile BorisJohnson spews? Someone please help me out here ToryCorruption BorisTheLiar NIprotocol
Of course he did! He doesnt care (‘f*ck business’) about anyone but himself, doesn’t read briefing papers, bone idle, only wants the perks and power of the job, promises whatever he needs to for the audience/woman he’s addressing, entitled, scheming, scrounging, pompous traitor!
Liar by nature
JasonPedlow Boris Johnson is a serial liar.
Snake oil salesman......
Not Cricket.
Another illustration of his lying ability
BBC news forgot to report this, weird
The Fat Fool lied? Surely not, shock, horror!
Quelle surprise!!
He's a proven liar, there should be no surprises there.
Not sure why anyone believed Johnson re the Protocol. He has a problem with honesty
What Johnson lied 😳 Wow well I bet hardly anyone would have thought that about the man🙄
No shit Sherlock
The man is an amoral inveterate liar - so I am not surprised.
And Parliament ratified it, not sure anyone in U.K. read the “Oven Ready Deal”.
And some Tories want the lying,corrupt cheat back as they think he’s their saviour, speaks volumes
johnson lied? wow that doesn’t sound like him
And.
That's right, he's a liar.
No way Surely he did not lie
You mean he lied. What a shocker.
He's a lying, corrupt, chancing spaffer, mooching parasite!!!!!!
Boris telling a lie surely not.
He will do whatever suits him at the time. Later, blame someone else. BorisJohnson BrexitBrokeBritain NIprotocol
He’s always been a liar & charlatan
BrexitReality EnoughIsEnough ScottishIndependence
Such a bloody liar apart from being utterly untrustworthy
Call this liar out at ever opportunity please.
Let's recall that this is the liar in chief johnson that you are talking about here. When his lips move....it's lies he is telling.
Bozo lying ? I can't believe it !!!!
So he lied. And this is news?
So he lied. Nothing unusual there.LiarJohnson
GordonHepburn Serial liar
Unfortunately in Britain we are repeatedly lied to by Tory politicians, under two years to vote them out
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He’s a liar 🤥😂
He just couldn’t stop lying.
Election campain already started. Do and say anything to be on the front page.
It's such a great shame that his hands were so tied by the bloody remoaners that we did not get more details fixed! Never forgive those b,stards!
The Prime Liar
HarriettmooreB2 Another instance of Johnson's mendacity. Does he think that President Biden won't know about this? Just adding to the pile of problems caused by Brexit.
Another whopper by Boris Johnson? Hard to believe. 🙄
Might be being a little unfair be I think George Knows and as 2 Mps have died for their beliefs life can be deemed to short to have passions !? Brexit including 🙄
Cretin
He lied, Wow!
Surprised me not.
You mean he lied. That's not like him at all 🤣
Well what can you expect from a duplicitous, no integrity clown.
More Brexit Bollocks! Borders in the Irish Sea If this man had a brain he might explain to Useless George why he was never going to get re elected.! Voted Brexit then wasn't happy with the result because the only people to suffer would be his own constituents! Hence useles
No surprise more Tory lies.
PictorMary Alexandr Bodjo Boffle Bunter Booster De Pwaffle may have lied? Say it ain’t so, I’m shocked! QQ
Untrustworthy as has been shown, outrageous
What? You mean BJ is a liar?
Northern Ireland has a great deal because 'it keeps freedom of movement and access to single market'
Anyone taken in by BorisJohnson (my so-called MP drcarolinej included) has the IQ of items in my kitchen drawers. Which are at least useful...
Johnson tells lies to cover lies that he tells to cover more lies
Are you surprised?
So Johnson lied, again. Who knew?
Boris Johnson lied? No way!
This is not exactly 'News' is it.? We knew this from the time it happened We knew this because the tory govt did NOT want Parliamentary scrutiny of that Bill & we knew this because BoZo the LIAR's cronys told us that they'd been Promised that the pm was simply going to tear it up
He's the One's off the Biggest Liar's, Deceivers, Corrupted without any Respect, Ethics, Dignity, Integrity or Even Decency, etc.Etc. Crappie Fella who seems to get away with everything. Welcome to Brexitland off the Tories and Their's Mate's. 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑
Boris johnson done what he said he would get us out of eu,and he's no worse than other lieing ministers ,i trust him more than Kier star Boris should be given another shot at priminister.
A bare-faced liar will say and promise anything.
The man could not have cared less. Not surprised he agreed and not surprised he lied.
fascinatorfun Not surprising for the lying charlatan
Lies, lies, lies from the corrupt Johnson.
We’ll blow me down. BorisJohnson lied. Who knew? NIprotocol
Are you calling our ex-leader a fibber?
JohnsonTheLiar JohnsonTheCorruptPM BrexitCarnage BrexitDisaster ToryCorruption ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern ToryTaxEvasion ToryTaxDodgers ToryTaxCheat GeneralElectionN0W ToriesOut195
Just a second. Are you suggesting that BorisJohnson is a liar?
He is the biggest liar to have governed the UK... He should be in jail!!
The problem is he is a liar
It's been proven beyond doubt that Boris is a liar. Let's not give the liar more publicity by talking about him or the book about him anymore.
This is not news!
In other words, told porkies
What a surprise!
We always knew he was a liar...Didn't we!!!
Another lie? Seems to be quite a list.
Oh what a surprise… I’m shocking by this revelation.
Oh no! Boris lied again?!?! The sky is green the grass is blue and reality is falling apart. How?! How could you Boris?! We expected the debt and the fraud and damaged international relationships as well as the extra kids but the lies! I'm done. hurting
It's not just that he lies, he's also incompetent.
Good so there should be
Liar & Charlatan Johnson , anyone surprised?
Who would have thought it, known liar lies
Johnson was and is a lying scumbag, full stop!
Confirmation that neither he nor his negotiators knew what was going on. Negotiation is both an art and a science, of which the UK government's team was bereft.
Looks like Boris is a historical misspoken person.
And you think liebour willn,t lie let's see Blair w m d .did they find them no. 20 years of war millions of dead and wounded. All over pay for oil in gold and not dollars Blair is a war criminal with Bush stop the war
I'm surprised that this is news. By now you should have a stock headline without any article attached, which would work for every occasion that vile charlatan does absolutely anything. 'Johnson lies again.' That's really all you need. It'll only need changing once he's jailed.
Liar Johnson lying as usual.
he is a liar and a scum
He’s a 🤡
Of course he did, then he lied about it
He's a liar. Always has been and always will be. It's as simple as that.
Johnson is a serial liar and adulterer. He is a narcissist and dishonest to the core.
Are we saying that BJ didn't tell the truth? Are we surprised? Such power and influence in the hands of such a person, how could it be that he grew to such prominence Catastrophic.
Two faced charlatan
Not like him to tell lies!
He lied.
If I have to put a customs declaration on a card I’m sending from the UK to the Netherlands then if NI has the same status & EU customs code then there have to be similar forms and checks - but I always thought the UK wanted the cake (Brexit) & eat it (still get EU benefits)
LiarJohnson
Tbf Johnson is a serial liar JohnsonTheLiar
A serial liar.
Northern Ireland is part of England, why aren't they treated the same?
Johnson lied? Catch me while I fall . . .
Crook, he is a pathological liar, narcissistic. I love myself so much.
BorisJohnson ?...
Liar lied again!
He wanted to tell the gullible British Public that he got BREXIT DONE shame on him
He is a born liar.
🤬
What do we expect? Of this lying individuals. We have got running the country past and present unbelievable what the law abiding citizens of this country are putting up with illegals taking the government to court because they don’t like their accommodation
Could it be that Boris Johnson is just a bald-faced liar who will say or do anything for personal gain?
What a state of affairs when some news breaks that proves our ex-PM lied and everyone's response is 'well of course he did' Nobody is even a little shocked anymore - we're all more startled if we find out he told the truth about something.
Johnson lying? Pope catholic?
I'm very sure beyond any doubt that there is a reasonable explanation. Could it be one of the papers that his dog ate.
He did have form as a compulsive liar…
BorisJohnson is a compulsive cheat and liar, he sacrificed NI and the UK, he literally does not care nor do ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern They hide ToryBrokenBritain and won't tell the truth BrexitHasFailed
Can't wait BorisJohnson book of lies to come out. Wonder if it will be more successful than other comparable books like Harry Potter.
So unsurprising to hear this. His reputation for misleading the electorate is proven beyond doubt. And there are still those among us who would like him back in number ten. Has the world gone mad?
mikegalsworthy Liar through and through.
mikegalsworthy Really Johnson lied -never
He lies.
He is just a compulsive liar and thinks he is fooling everyone...
Johnson is unable to speak the truth, even if his life depended on it.
mikegalsworthy Lie number ?
mrhazzers what a surprise he lied again, i think in his defence he hasn't a clue about anything or what is going on day to day so lies to everyone about everything
That is nothing new. How on earth does he get away with it. What deterrent will the British government bring in to stop.a politician doing similar again !
Diary of a Nobody.
Are you suggesting that a man, with a proven track record of lying, lied to us?
But that would mean he was a liar
mikegalsworthy Wow, really? 🤥
More lies BorisJohnson
If he ever caught himself telling the truth I think he'd through in a lie just to keep his hand in.
Another gold plated lie by BorisJohnson Conservatives
Typical boris shenanigans
Shocker. Notorious Liar confirmed to have lied. But watch middle england still vote for the Tories
It’s what he does- lie
Are you really trying to tell me that Johnson lied Seriously? Well knock me down with a feather.
BorisJohnson sold out brexit to get his shit deal over the line, brexit is a complete failure and a massive mistake, we should rejoin the eu RejoinEU BrexitBrokeBritain
In other news Known liar lies.
Why is it any surprise that he lied that’s his policy and will continue to do so as long as people believe anything that’s comes from his mouth.
rob_b_GTTO Scumbag. Incompetent voracious, lying scumbag
HeleneBismarck Clearly, Johnson is a man of other people’s words.
This guy?
Another pork pie bojo
A lying politician, who'd a thunk it? 😜
Johnson lied through his teeth, he mislead the Irish, and sold them a false promise. Why is that liar still allowed to be a politician?
The only real agenda was to get it over the line before Christmas Eve so he could produce this, in my opinion. It's only ever about the show with Johnson, never the substance.
MoiraWebster In fairness, I’m sure he simply didn’t have the faintest clue what we was doing - beyond performative rabble rousing!
His lips moved. He lied
You forget one thing, Boris Johnson is a pathological liar.
You can’t trust one word from him-he lies consistently.
Anyone that saw even the smallest clip of the man while he had the title of foreign secretary would be hard pressed not to know he's lieing disgrace that shouldn't be anywhere near a position of power. How + why anyone's taken in is beyond comprehension.
What? Boris LIED? No way 😂
BJ and his 'unique relationship with the truth'. Misleading people to gain power and the 'porkies' kept coming and coming and coming.
TheBrexitPartly
Well I never.
I think that those of us who've been paying attention worked this one out at the time. He really is a shameless lying charlatan.
seandanaher5 I'm not sure that 'Boris Johnson lies' is the Pulitzer prize winning scoop you think it is
This is not news. Johnson is a lying treasonous charlatan.
There's a big clue he was lying. His lips moved..
BorisJohnson ...well who'd have thought
well he lied. ir`s what he does
SusanKelly18 Oh look his bum's on fire. BorisTheLiar
SusanKelly18 What? Did Boris Johnson lie? That's not like him
steverichards14 Never trust a born liar.
Is the book called 'No Shit Sherlock! The Pope IS Catholic and Bears DO shit in the woods*'? *apart from in Brexit Britain, everyone shits in rivers including Paddington.
We knew at the time. He lied. It’s what he does.
HeleneBismarck OK so it’s in a new book. But this is not news.
When it was so obvious there would be checks, and the EU had repeated time and again that there would be checks, why did anyone believe a word that a proven liar like Johnson said?
williamcrawley Never trust a Brit.
Johnson lies? Please, please, say it's not so.
Johnson talked a good game but he surrendered to the EU and allowed them to continue to occupy the North. The Brits should have gone for a Proper no deal Brexit back in 2016.
Surprised when a liar lies?
AnneMcFarlane15 Because he’s a duplicitous dissembler
Brexit. Only possible if enough people believe enough lies.
Jacobbe79601492 What he lied?
steverichards14 He…lied? Gosh
Why does this surprise anyone? He has the moral backbone of an invertebrate!
You mean he lied! I don't believe it. Its not like there is anything in his past that would indicate he is a liar!
HarriettmooreB2 Anyone who lives on this island knows that this bloviating sack of rancid lard is a liar. He is a charlatan, a shapeshifting creep and wholly unfit to run a village tombola, let alone a country. But you already know that back in the home country. Ding Dong. 🇮🇪
What? Lie? Boris? Never! 🙄
Remember this one!!
And he had no intention of honouring UKG signature. Shameless liar. Unionists should be looking in one direction to vent ( they won't of course).
More Tory lies 🙄 They will do and say anything to cling on to power. Let's vote them out at next election.
I thought we already knew this years ago? Like, no one ever hid this?
You actually believed Johnson
JohnsonTheLiar
Yes because he is a famous habitual liar.
He made some fools of the DUP 😂. Just laughed in their faces but they couldn’t be told. They knew it all as per usual.
HE LIES, ERGO HE LIED
steverichards14 Usual high standard of lying from Boris. And to think that some folk want him back.
Boris Johnson lied, that's hardly news anymore.
Brilliant, unless you are the DUP, TUV and Bryson and all the rest of the Brexiteers...it totally destroys their protestations. Ah,...the truth matters.
This seems unlikely. Would Johnson actually go back in his word? If you have been affected by any issues in this piece or think Boris might be your dad then be prepared to go to court so he can deny you.
But that would make him a liar?
Anyone would think he was a lying scumbag.
Boris Johnson, pathological liar
Johnson was and is a self serving liar
Leo Varadkar did not meet Johnson 'in Liverpool'
Who would have thought he was a bare faced liar. I mean, so out of character. ConHome
BrexitLalaland
Everyone already knows this, don't they, even if they won't admit it. NI consumers were disposed of at the flick of Johnson's wrist. Amazing.
A passionate unionists 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Shock ….. serial liar tells lies!
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