Brexit Northern Ireland deal: Tory MP Steve Baker describes relief at breakthroughNorthern Ireland Minister Steve Baker has spoken of his relief after the UK reached a deal with the EU over post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland.
Mr Baker, a prominent Brexiteer, said the last seven years has taken a toll on him and "cost me my mental health".
Like Brexit for the millions suffering loss of freedoms
The far right will not like someone playing the victim.
Brexit gave this non-entity the chance to elbow his way into the limelight. The ERG is UKIP in all but name, so is a party within a party. All of them are clearly not intellectually gifted. Baker's rabid espousal of Brexit has had a negative impact on all our mental health.
Our politicians are only humans they need supporting not constant criticism by press and media most of whom have little idea of what repercussions their witch-hunt reporting does to damage the Uk
Boo-fuckin-hoo
No sympathy. Businesses struggling in the UK and businesses going bankrupt because of decisions made by the Conservatives. Disappointing.
Do we have anything other than his words to confirm this mental anguish? Baker decided on his stance therefore any anguish is self-inflicted. Those of us dragged out of the EU by the likes of Baker have suffered as a consequence of his selfishness! Zero sympathy!
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Self inflicted and nothing compared to the damage caused to millions of us by Brexit and his lies about Brexit
Telling daily lies about Brexit for 7 years, must eventually take its toll!
The Tories inflicted this mess on ALL of us and now they are bleating? They LIED about the border and now they are trying to claim credit for removing something THEY created!
Generally I’m more sympathetic to people who have had mental trauma inflicted on them, especially when the inflicting are self serving Tories putting a flawed ideology like Brexit before the best interests of the population. I hope his suffering has caused him to reflect.
Awwww boo bloody hoo he voted for it and now is very happy about NI deal what a slap in the face to Scotland who voted to stay in EU us disadvantaged AGAIN ! What about businesses what about the people shameless git!!
Is this a real video or is it a parody?
7 years of this has cost an awful lot more people more than their mental health. It’s also cost the UK economy at least 5% dip in GDP.
DUP 1690 reasons why we say No to a deal that’s same as the fantastic deal deal U.K. had before Lying Johnson appeared?
Ellen Degeneres breaking down in her mansion about how hard the pandemic has been for her while people are dying in ICU and being laid off vibes
Aww did Steve feel a bit sad while ruining tens of millions of lives deliberately?
Why is the BBC posting this nonsense?
He is one of the bunch who forced us to have a hard bexit, against the countries best interest. I feel no sympathy for him.
Can I have same deal please - I don’t like the deal I’ve got now FFS
idk man
How self centred & narcissistic,what about the catastrophic economic impact & subsequent negative effects on the populations mental health,Brexit has had on everyday ordinary families & people living up & down the length & breadth of the United Kingdom
what do you think it did to the rest of us?
Self-inflicted....
If someone had told Steve Baker in 2016 that brexit would cost him his mental health he would have dismissed it as project fear.
Using his damaged mental health to emotionally blackmail people into accepting this...
Tough shit ,,costing some people their lives ,you prick
How can growing a beard alleviate your depression? I’m sorry but he’s so full of bs you smell it from Northern Ireland….
My heart bleeds... 🙄
Hasnt done much for mine! In fact 13 years of the completely arrogant & incompetent conservative government is enough to send all of us round the bend!
A border issue cost him his mental health? Seriously? Boo hoo.
Well that’s one benefit of Brexit at least…. 🙄
After six years in Scotland, deported back to South Africa. Don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs. Multi skilled tradesmen. Grand parents From BRITAIN. Home office Croydon London to blame. Common wealth countries not welcome to Britain. South Africa high unemployment rate.🇿🇦🇬🇧
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People have died, lost their jobs, closed their businesses, lost savings and loved ones and living out of foodbanks because of this governments decisions…
Cost me my freedom of movement and my ability to trade with the EU as a small business.
Fetch my violin made of quarks
We moved to live in another country because of him and his fellow ERG traitors. I now can't even get a birthday present from family. I have not one iota of sympathy for the tosser.
Oh my heart bleeds for you... 🙄 It's called a job....
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Yes - he's started talking about 'populism' - a worrying trend if even he is talking like that.
I'm afraid the off-the-charts scale of lying that's overcome British politics in the last decade - promoted by the BBC - has also cost me my mental health. I remain constantly furious with these mendacious fraudsters & their destruction of the open, inclusive UK of the 2000s.
All those businesses gone bust . All the billions lost and wasted because of right wing ideology. People have really suffered because of people like him . So if he’s suffering he deserves every fucking moment of it .
Our journalist are embarrassing
Boo fucking hoo It's cost the nation a lot more than a few sleepless nights you hideous ghoul.
It's cost the rest of us Mental health issues due to the overall ineptitude of Ministers like Him who dogedly fought for Brexit. Now NI( supposedly the envy of the world for having access to both UK and EU)But England,Scotland,& Wales Don't have that luxury. Thank SteveBakerHW
I have no sympathy at all for this guy
VANKER.!
the Tory Party snake is changing its skin. We are being groomed.
Steve may well have a history of making things difficult for himself & others.
Don’t believe a word he says
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I don't feel sorry for this man!!
And what about the pain and torment you helped to create throughout the UK with your pathetic ideology.
hope your better now i see the hating left are enjoying it.
That word get thrown about a bit
Think what it’s fine for the rest of the country you self-centred individual.
This is such a misjudged clip. Just imagine the mental health issues caused by his actions and those of his colleagues.
Have you put a claim in Steve ?
Self inflicted through unquestioning ideology based on few, if any, facts,
More Cowbell
Krishnan summed him up perfectly. Baker is a deceptive liar who deserves zero sympathy! ToryScum
Lies lies lies !!! Playing the mental health card 😂😂😂😂😂😄BrexitBrokeBritain
Oh for goodness sake !! Are we now supposed to feel sorry for the guy that in no small part caused all this grief in the first place ! What was so wrong with life 7 years ago ? Is it now so much better ? What at pathetic individual.
Anybody believe this clown?
How many people killed themselves as their businesses went under because of his actions?
What a load of ....!!!
Narcissist - next
Shouldn’t be working then or is he lying ?
Bollo**ks. He's just like Johnson, it's all about him. Think of the damage he's caused to the thousands of folk who are directly affected by his nasty ethics. Secret societies within parliament should be abolished.
steve baker - What about the mental health deterioration caused by your Govt, your Party’s policies for people who do not have the resources you have? Any thoughts to spare for what they are going through?
How many peoples mental health and/or physical health has been affected by this man’s ideas and policies? Much like my respect, my sympathy for these people went longggg ago.
Aww diddums. Never mind the hurt your god awful actions have caused millions of others, now and in the future.
13 years of a Tory government have cost thousands and thousands of people their mental health so, sorry SteveBakerHW , you're going to need to look elsewhere for sympathy.
Northern Ireland belongs to the the Republic of Ireland. England stole it.
Seriously. Mental health. Is he taking the piss.
I don’t wish mental health on anyone,regardless of who they are. But I do have an issue giving sympathy to someone who’s been complicit in causing extreme MH probs to members of the public, without a care in the world. Not so funny when it happens to one of them.
What about the mental health him and his tory party have inflicted on us, no sympathy they caused this mess!
you can always blame the Tory hierarchy for the Brexit negotiation fuck up and perhaps look to them to support your mental health challenges ... sounds like they didn't help at all and you had to get through it alone ... so much for compassionate conservatism
He’s such an utter prat!
Rather assumes he had any
No wonder he feels better. Guilt washing. Admission of a terrible deal now circumvented in part for NI. Sharp resigned yet?
A Tory suffering from government policies! Makes a nice change, they're usually inflicting misery.
If he valued his mental health, maybe he shouldn't be a Brexiter or have put the rest of us through it. The past seven years haven't exactly added to the gaiety of anyone's nation.
It's surprising what happens when things don't go your way.
Baker, earlier:
My heart bleeds for him NOT
No, girlfriend, you already had mental health problems. Your deranged mental obsession with Brexit cost many thousands of people their mental, economic and social health & well-being & their futures. Sorry SteveBakerHW , I give not one iota of a crap about your mental health.
SteveBakerHW problem is Steve old boy was that Brexit was ill-conceived and never a piece of practical or particularly popular policy. 50/50 is no way to drag the electorate through the mud for at best an idea. Bad call old boy and you were to blame.
Brexit Hardman
What does he think it did to the rest of us? And still does.
Guilt can be a heavy burden on one’s mental health.
Steve Baker, me,me,me
Me me me.
I.m STILL waiting to see ANY positives from Brexshit to my life since voting for it.🧐😕
Lying has that effect on people (unless they are sociopaths like some Tories we all know....)
Ahh didums....W ⚓
But he wanted Brexit in the first place. What did he expect?
SteveBakerHW You and your pals destroyed a country
What do you think it’s cost us you simpering bargain bucket David Brent!
What about all the lives and businesses ruined by Brexit? Big political decisions should weigh heavily especially when they are based on lies.
Yes I feel sorry for everyone with poor mental health, but here is another tory mp trying to justify what they've done and hoping the public will feel sorry for them.
I guess 7 years of campaigning to ruin the country takes it toll.
Is that why he turned into a Covid crank as well? He's just a piece of work
He was mad before he started.
Zero sympathy for a self-inflicted wound 🤬
Does he ever think of the price Jo Cox paid for the lies and racism released by his campaign?
When will he accept that he got it wrong? When will he apologise?
Grow some balls
Seven years of watching this bloke erode more and more rights from me and I'm supposed to feel sorry for him? No thanks.
You could have resigned
You reap what you sow
His stance on Brexit cost the whole country a massive crisis
Not as much as it cost us who voted to remain and the shlt we have had to put up with and will have to put up with for years!
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Well, your lot started it!!
Was an ERG Brexiteer and now he's right behind the pro EU agreement because Rishi gave him a cabinet job - I'm sure being absolute chancer with no moral compass is weighing on his mental health!
His mental health? His lies and gaslighting helped create this utter shambles.
what a coincidence the tories have also cost me my mental health
Aah poor steve
He didn't do too much for my mental health either... no sympathy.
Does he actually mean he's going to volunteer to be sectioned or is he hamming it up a tad 🤔
Millions are cold, hungry and feel hopeless because of your government's incompetence. If you want to shed a tear, shed it for them
His mental health had deteriorated to nothing when he sided with the ERG.
Ah boo hoo, he slipped himself up the greasy political pole and took the hush money job to keep him quiet.
Worth listening to. I have never agreed with Baker's hard line on Brexit but you have to respect the belief and commitment he shows, and many other MPs too. The majority are not self-serving toads and its high time we got less personal about the ones we disagree with.
Get a grip.
Is he saying that his Tin Hat rants about Covid19 was because he was mentally unwell 😳
It’s called a conscience
Hope it was worth it...
I don't buy it .
Going for the X Factor sympathy vote now. It’s ridiculous. He’s just admitted that Brexit isn’t good for anyone.
£85,000 per year × 7 years = £595,000 in wages.......and the bloke still moans
The BBC gladly helping this devious void of a human to launder his public image. Nice.
he be still gone next election tory scum
Not half as much as the rest of us. Brexit is not working, your mental health really is not important to those affected by your belligerence. Do you still have a roof overhead?
Mate, the country is still reeling. You caused it.
13 years of a Tory Government has cause mental health anguish for the whole country
recover in jail ....
Maybe he shouldn't have been a massive lying cut then.
He cheated to get there!
Thought it was your spine, guts or even a 'dropping pair'! Failed Crab, failed Politician!
And look what it's cost the rest of the UK
Why did he become a born again evangelical? Has he been at one with his thoughts before Brexit? Because he had trouble with being alone with the lockdowns & he likes to jump out of planes... has he had a big past event before Brexit?
Could have just voted remain and fell good about yourself.
He needs better work/life balance
And his Brexit has cost stress to thousands along with the loss of their businesses. No sympathy
You caused it. A foney vote, it may well have been a vote for do we have pizza or Italian tonight for dinner.
He should have a word with his Conservative colleagues + Farage, about why they put their career first, instead of country first. They all knew Brexit was/is bad for UK - didn't get better in any sense, the opposite is happening.
Having so many remainers doing their damndest to frustrate the result of the referendum in the last 7 years is enough to test anyone's sanity. Starting with a remainer PM in May cannot have helped. Nor did the appointment of incompetent negotiators.
Spare a thought for the mental health of the millions of UK citizens you and your party have needlessly impoverished SteveBakerHW
Looking for a Peerage?
The people of the UK are living with the consequences of the harm inflicted by Brexit and the ERG’s hubris. Perhaps one day Mr. Baker will search his soul and ask himself whether it was all worth it, just to assuage the feelings of a racist stupid minority. BrexitBrokeBritain
And ours you clown. 🤡
Fixing the mess you caused is what should be done, Why bleet on about it, admit you and your party screwed everyone over and move on..
Fcking man up
People have died because of the Brexit he inflicted on us. ( He doesn't get to play the victim of his own fascist politics!
Suck it up!
How are you getting on with this? You're in luck. There is ONE person who believes it! AlBowers1
Another Brexiter playing the victim 🙄
It has cost me and my family and business a whole lot more. Forgive me for not feeling an iota of sympathy. He thinks Brexit is over. No it’s beginning. He praises NI access to the SM. Great! Let’s have all U.K. in then please since it’s so good! BrexitLiars
Tory MP Steve Baker describes relief at breakthrough .
Mmmmm and what have YOU cost me..........
Oh dear how sad,never mind. If he thinks he has a problem, take a look around at your government handy work
Only the left can suffer with mental health Steve
Who cares...
The DUP will do that to your head if you let them.
I think the uncomfortable truth he needs to face up to is that a deal of this kind has always been on the table, but the ERG headbangers, led quite stridently at times by one Steve 'Brexit Hardman' Baker, wouldn't countenance it.
And what about the mental health of the public?
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