By flip-flopping on Brexit, Boris Johnson is stoking violence

'The Prime Minister is either incompetent in that he didn’t understand the agreement he signed, or deceitful in that he never intended to follow it in the first place.' ✍️ CarolineLucas writes for MetroOpinion

If you thought this Government had, as it frequently promised, ‘gotIt’s been over two years since the Prime Minister signed the Northern Ireland Protocol as part of the Withdrawal Agreement, which at the time he hailed as ‘fantastic news for families and businesses in every part of the UK’.

As much as ministers may say they wish to renegotiate, they are nonetheless threatening to rip it up. What on Earth happened? It takes an enormous amount of hard work from all sides to maintain the balance, and to avoid reopening the wounds of past sectarian violence. Not only are the Tories threatening peace – they’re actively stoking the violence. One unnamed senior ally of the Prime Minister told the Sunday Times: ‘We want a weapon on the table… We don’t want to use it.’

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