‘Oven ready’ to burn down the union

D.R. Cooper, now delving into Google, might take the opportunity to check the status of Northern Ireland (and Scotland) both of which are described as countries.

The difficulty this brings is that these countries are part of a United Kingdom (also a country).

Boris Johnson’s ‘oven ready’ EU deal happily risked that unity in order to appear to ‘get Brexit done’.

Both Scotland and Northern Ireland have slowly growing movements which will, eventually, lead to independence and Irish unification respectively.

Boris’ Brexit bodge will simply speed up the process, both countries having favoured Remain in 2016, and the growing younger and better educated demographic favouring a union with Europe over dominance by an English parliament where first past the post elections render democracy questionable.

Were this Prime Minister anything other than a mendacious populist clown appeasing the right wing rump which now runs the Conservative party, he might have cared about the Kingdom.

The fact is that he doesn’t and never did. JAMES AIDAN Sutton Road

Cookham