Boris Johnson likes to give everyone the impression that he’s a loveable scamp.

Last week, he arrived on the steps of the Government Buildings in Dublin with the look of someone in serious need of a comb, and maybe even an aspirin.

Bojo’s first ever meeting with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar was supposed to help the two get to know each other, talk about solutions in Northern Ireland, and try to solve the tricky business of the Irish border should Brexit go ahead.

This was an important meeting. Here’s why:

The Republic of Ireland is an EU member and the only country to share a land border with the UK (the Northern Ireland border).

The freedom to move across this border was a key part of the peace negotiations that ended ‘The Troubles’ in 1998 – a 30-year civil war in Northern Ireland between mainly Catholic Irish nationalists and pro-British Protestants.

As it currently stands, joint EU membership between the north and the south means goods and people can travel across the border freely, but there are fears Britain’s withdrawal from the EU will result in customs checkpoints going up along the border.

Clearly, this is a big deal.

Let’s watch the Prime Minister conduct himself with the decorum that the situation demands:

Johnson and Trump, together at last.

Yes, we know that this took place last week, but it’s still worth a look.

Also, a quick lesson on British slang from Tremr will tell you why this is laughable and a little sad.

Trump :

Verb. To break wind from the anus, to ‘fart’. E.g.”There’s a disgusting smell in here. Has someone trumped?”

Noun. 1. An act of breaking wind. 2)The resulting smell of having broke wind from the anus, a ‘fart’.

And now ‘Johnson’ from the Online Slang Dictionary:

noun:
a penis.

So Johnson and Trump – what a combo.

Boris then went on to make a further fool of himself during his meeting with Varadkar.

The Irish Times wrote an excellent piece on it if you’d like to know more.

As for the American fart, his meeting with Varadkar back in June was equally ludicrous. Here’s Trump quoted in The Guardian:

“I think it will all work out very well, and also for you with your wall, your border,” he said at a joint press conference. “I mean, we have a border situation in the United States, and you have one over here. But I hear it’s going to work out very well here.”

Yep, he compared Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to the situation between the US and Mexico.

You can’t help feeling sorry for Ireland and respecting the hell out of Varadkar for keeping a straight face throughout his meetings with these buffoons.

[sources:reuters&onineslangdictionary&tremr&guardian]