Leo Varadkar has received some of his biggest criticism to date after he made, what is being described as, “utterly ludicrous” comments about a potential hard border.
Members of his own Fine Gael party have practically disowned him after he was recorded on live international Bloomberg television in Davos stating that police (gardai) and soldiers will be “targets” if a hard border is once again enforced on the island of Ireland should a no-deal Brexit materialise.
You could visibly see from the footage that Varadkar was in an exceptionally angry mood and was quite literally almost foaming at the mouth spitting his words back at the interviewers of international finance and business station, Bloomberg TV.
His exact words to Bloomberg were:
It will: “involve people in uniform and it may involve the need, for example, for cameras, physical infrastructure, possibly a police presence, or an army presence to back it up,” Varadkar said in a Bloomberg Television interview at the World Economic Forum on Friday.
“The problem with that in the context of Irish politics and history is those things become targets.”
His comments have been widely condemned from everyone on all sides of the political divide on both sides of the border with social media users saying Varadkar has single handedly managed to escalate tensions in the border area all by himself.
Others simply say that he has now given people real fears that a hard border will be imposed with “such a stupid thing to have been said”.
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