Woman sums up mood of the nation and calls Boris Johnson a ‘filthy piece of toerag’

It appears Boris Johnson is still struggling to get just about anybody on side with his new Brexit plan.

The prime minister claims his proposal sent to the EU this week is an ‘opportunity’ to get Brexit done once and for all but EU leaders say it threatens the Northern Ireland peace process by ditching the backstop.

And it would appear that it’s not just the European Union’s patience that is wearing thin, with one of the PM’s own constituents furiously calling him a ‘filthy piece of toerag’.

She’s being hailed as the new Brenda from Bristol (Google it) for her hilarious and impassioned outburst – told to Sky’s Sophie Ridge during a street interview in Uxbridge town centre.

The unnamed woman was stopped by Sophie to speak about her MP but she was having absolutely none of it.

The Sky News presenter uttered the words: ‘We’re just here in Uxbridge today, Boris Johnson’s constituency…’

But she was cut off by the furious voter telling her: ‘Don’t you ever mention that name in front of me, that filthy piece of toerag.’

The hashtag #FilthyPieceOfToeRag is now trending on Twitter as millions praise the reaction, some saying it ‘sums up the mood of the nation’.

Others have vowed to use the insult more often going forward.

Labour MP David Lammy re-tweeted the clip and said: ‘This constituent in Uxbridge sees right through Boris Johnson.’

Mr Johnson’s Brexit plan was delivered just a short time after his first Leader’s speech at the Tory party conference on Wednesday,

His conference appearance was overshadowed by allegations he had an affair with a businesswoman he gave thousands of pounds to as London Mayor.

He was also accused of groping a journalist’s leg at a lunch some 20 years ago.

And in the last month, Mr Johnson has been accused of outraging democracy and misleading the Queen after his suspension of Parliament was ruled unlawful.

Today, the PM repeated his message that Britain will leave the EU ‘come what may’ on 31 October, but said it remains to be seen whether Europe will ‘cheerily wave us off’ with a deal.

The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier had a differing view.

He told The Observer that a no-deal scenario would ‘never be Europe’s choice… it would always be the UK’s choice, not ours’.

Mr Barnier told reporters in Paris that as it stands, the EU will not approve Mr Johnson’s latest plan, saying: ‘If they do not change, I do not believe, on the basis of the mandate I have been given by the EU27, that we can advance.’

The Benn Act, passed in September, states the prime minister must ask for an extension to Article 50 in order to delay Brexit in the event no deal can be reached by 19 October.

But today, Housing secretary Robert Jenrick insisted the Government has ‘no intention’ of delaying Britain’s departure from the EU if a deal cannot be agreed.

In an interview with Sky’s Sophy Ridge On Sunday, he said: ‘We’ve said that as any Government would do we will comply with the law… however all of our efforts now are focused on trying to get a deal.

‘And we’ve just put forward some, I think, very reasonable and thoughtful proposals to the EU – they try to answer the questions that had dogged the previous deal prepared by Theresa May.’

Mrs May failed three times to get her Brexit deal passed by MPs in the House of Commons before she resigned.