How to convey the recklessness of Johnson's tactics in relation to Northern Ireland?
Here are a few memories of my childhood growing up in working class West Belfast in the late 70s and 80s:
- us lying scared at the bottom of our parents' wardrobe, where they'd put us, covered in a few quilts, listening, terrified, to the rioting and gunshots right outside on our wee street
- walking home from the playground with my two younger sisters, being trailed with a rifle by a soldier standing behind a wall, hoping that he's pointing that gun at me and not one of them
- being woken up in the middle of the night by a bloody massive bomb somewhere in the city and wondering who / what had been blown to pieces this time
- worrying about what we'd all end up doing and being when noone gave a damn about "West Beirut", there were no jobs and few prospects, unless you were up for just leaving everything & everyone behind
So watching Johnson play his little games and tell his little lies and think it's all such a jolly Brexit'n'sovereignty hoot of a time?
It fills me with absolute horror, that he and his party selfishly risk everything that's been achieved to make Northern Ireland a better place.
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