Politics Researcher: Government and Johnson

politics researcher: The Irish government are responding to facts on the ground' as they emerge, and the fact is that Boris Johnson's current approach is leading to no deal, said Jonathan Evershed, a politics researcher of University College Cork, according to The Japan Times. I think everything the Irish government has said is a true and b an attempt to confront Johnson's government which has wilfully lost its grip on reality. Ireland has a land border with Britain that it wants to keep free-flowing after Brexit and it fears massive economic disruption if Britain crashes out of the EU. ; Since Johnson took over last Wednesday, Irish leaders have warned his plans are unrealistic and could lead to the break-up of the United Kingdom and a united Ireland. Duncan Morrow, a politics professor at Ulster University, said Standing up to a bullying' approach by Britain is part of the DNA of Irish politics, so no Taoiseach Irish prime minister can be seen to fold simply because a U.K. premier raises his voice. Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney on Friday then warned that Johnson was putting Britain on a collision course with the European Union. Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar was the first to react to Johnson's victory speech Wednesday, saying his stated goal of renegotiating the Brexit deal entirely by a deadline of Oct. 31 was totally not in the real world. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.