Johnson gave 6 shifty answers to @SophyRidgeSky. As she rightly put it: "Why would anyone trust anything you say?" Here's a thread exposing the PM's latest catalogue of falsehoods 1/
@SophyRidgeSky Johnson said he’d done a “great new deal”. No he hasn’t. His divorce deal turns Northern Ireland into an EU colony and makes Great Britain poorer and less powerful than it would otherwise be. This is a rotten deal the country will regret for decades. 2/
@SophyRidgeSky PM said his deal would “get Brexit done” and end uncertainty. Untrue again. All he has done is the divorce deal with the EU. He hasn’t even started talking about a trade agreement with the bloc. The EU took 6/7 years to complete trade deals with Canada and Japan. 3/
@SophyRidgeSky He said talks will be "extremely simple” because we start with "perfect alignment" and "zero tariffs". Snag is PM wants to wriggle out of “level playing field” provisions which guarantee workers’ rights and environmental standards. If so, EU won't give us free trade. 4/
@SophyRidgeSky We face another "no deal" crash out end 2020 unless we extend the "transition". Snag is that will cost an extra £12-15bn/year. So will Johnson extend or not? He found it impossible to give a straight answer 5/
@SophyRidgeSky PM says he’ll get money to invest in NHS etc by creating a dynamic economy. But pulling out of the EU will knock economy £70bn/year, according to NIESR. Only way to fund lavish spending promises – apart from going deeper into debt – is to cancel Brexit. 6/
@SophyRidgeSky Johnson says we will leave EU as one “united” kingdom. Another bad joke. . It’s not just that Northern Ireland is being cut off with customs controls in the Irish Sea. SNP is demanding a new independence referendum in Scotland. 7/
Here's an article pulling all Johnson's six shifty answers together infacts.org/boris-johnsons…
