I think Johnson just wants the kudos of being PM, and doesn' t give a monkeys about any of it. I don't think he's ideologically driven. I think he is a Trojan horse, and is perfect in that role because he is lazy and unprincipled, and maybe because of the latter is weirdly charismatic.
Now he's in post, the forces behind him can just get on with it.
The ERG are all over this because of their demented racisim and stupidity and for people like Mogg, who has already moved parts of his business to ROI, they want to be rid of pesky EU anti tax avoidance and laundering rules, which are in the way.
There are bigger players behind the scenes here, and it is they who want the EU project weakened, and NI and the UK in disarray because it suits a bigger and worse agenda than a lot of people want to see. My money is on Putin.
There are issues in the UK which have made us easy pickings, the nonense of MSM whch so may believe, the willingness to blame the poor for their problems and the MSM constant scapegoating. It's now the GP's turn it seems.
I think this BS with the NIP is about wrecking the GFA, and trying to blame the EU for it. The EU response has been smart here, but it won't work. Co operation and solutions are not want the UK government want.
And the US is all over this as is well known, so the Tory useful idiots, such as Frost, are really really playing with lighted matches. Maybe that's beginning to dawn on some of the less demented people in the project.
1 When truth becomes irrelevant, as is happening now, we are in deep deep trouble. Historically, the worst tyrants have created a new reality where the truth is what they say it is, nothing more , nothing less.
I think we are pretty much at that point
2 When and by whom is this called out for what it is, treason? and what can be done about it?