THAT'S EXACTLY THE POINT JIM! He is an ex hack who peddles lies!!! That's what this con man does and he believes it is normal to deceive and con people with anything that enters his head. He does not represent anything close to traditional conservative party values either - an utter farce to watch him brazenly "getting away" with the shit that he utters and he'll continue to do it. I watched a clip of his brief visit to NI to formally broker the opening of Stormont. He did shake the hand of Sinn Fein's leader, Mary Lou McDonald but his body language was all wrong and of course Mary Lou had no time for Johnson anyway apart from "going through the motions". The man is a total "pudding" but he doesn't care at all!! It was also noticeable that the brief bbc coverage of this event centred on the DUP's leader, Arlene Foster, and her role in Stormont. McDonald is significantly involved in the leadership of Stormont and yet SHE WAS TOTALLY MARGINALISED BY THE BBC MEDIA MACHINE! Crass politics indeed and no different from the continual RW media and bbc misrepresentations against the non-unionist SNP!! Now we hear from Michel Barnier that there will be border checks within NI - again it just exposes the lying Brexit bastards like Johnson and his unscrupulous fascist chums!! It won't go down well in NI, that's for sure, but I don't think Johnson actually cares - this is all about the republic of Brexit England and I wish they'd just formally f### off and split up this "precious union" that they keep bogusly preaching about ad nauseum!! 