My dislike of the EU certainly increases in its intensity, but it is neither blind nor unconsidered. I acknowledge the good that it - or its predecessor in the EEC - has done. Objectivity is certainly a difficult thing to hold on to in this highly polarising debate, but I try. I research as carefully as I can, and I take care to read the other side of the debate.
The other thing in this context is that I can't stand Johnson either, but I saw him, given the dearth of choice, as a necessity. The country voted to leave the EU after a campaign that was pretty toxic on both sides, but May then embarked on a desperate process that would have resulted in the UK being bound by EU laws in perpetuity, and the evidence is right in front of us that the EU would have used those laws to hobble the UK whilst retaining its lucrative market. We would, as one of the officials delightedly ejaculated in that excruciating fly on the wall documentary, have become the EU's 'first colony'.
The EU has been vindictive, and characteristically mendacious, a long displayed trait of which May was either incomprehensibly naive, or artfully forgiving. Johnson seems, often to his cost, to lack spite, but he has no shortage of mendacity. He is also a child of the EU, and was brought up in its inner sanctums. He knows exactly how it ticks.
I have no doubt that Johnson had little intention of keeping to the text of the NIP both as he negotiated it, and when he signed it. I maintain, however, that he had little choice. It was a significant improvement over the trap of May's backstop, and despite being liberally sown with traps of its own, signing it was the only way left of kicking the process forward towards the goal, considered essential by most commentators at the time, of an FTA. The protocol, however, is toxic, and the only way in which it can possibly work is by soft-touch oversight and compromise. The EU is refusing to countenance either.
I say it again, you, and the handful of other continuity remainers who post to this thread, are united in two things, a seething loathing of Johnson, beside which everything else falls to nothing, and an obsequience to the EU which brooks absolutely no criticism whatsover of the institutions themselves, their conduct throughout this process, or to their personnel. The only mendacity is Johnson’s.
You may have noticed that our imperfect democracy is beginning to express its dissatisfaction with Johnson, and it's starting in the blue-rinsed tory homelands. That's the way it works. The EU, however, continues.