The view from the other side

The Sun, November 18 The redtop told Leo to ‘shut his gob’ while calling him ‘naive’ and ‘young’.

John Taylor, ex-UUP

MP, November 23 Now Baron Kilclooney referred to the Taoiseach simply as ‘the Indian’ when he couldn’t spell Varadkar.

Kate Hoey, Labour MP,

November 27 Sounding like the President of the United States on his mooted Mexico wall project, Labour ‘Leave’ campaigner Hoey told BBC: ‘At end of the day we won’t put up the border. They’ll have to pay for it.’

Woman on Channel 4

Video, November 28 In a viral video highlighting how young Brits are clueless on where the border is, one older woman said: ‘I do think the Irish are making trouble because they lost. It’s a bit petty isn’t it, really. Yeah the southern Irish have to lump it, basically.’

Ian Paisley Jr, DUP MP,

November 29 The Northern unionist MP called for the British government ‘to shake Dublin’s cage’ and threatened that Westminster could make a deal on fisheries ‘extremely long, tedious and hard for them’.

The Telegraph,

November 30 An editorial called for Britain to help Ireland’s ‘young and inexperienced leader’ to back down from his border demands, demands that make things harder for Brexit-backers like the Telegraph to see progress in negotiations.