"Britain is in a lonely place right now. It resembles the scene of a bad traffic accident where shocked passers-by look away with pity and horror in their eyes. Alarmed by what they see, governments around the world practise their own form of social distancing."
"Once again, Britain is the sick man of Europe."
It didn't have to be this way...if only...Tory UK Governments had listened to "the people" instead of telling "the people" what they should think...
...and not least, pursuing Brexit based upon a corrupt and illegal mandate!
It didn't have to be this way...if only...Tory UK Governments had listened to "the people" instead of telling "the people" what they should think...
...and not least, pursuing Brexit based upon a corrupt and illegal mandate!
"The view of Britain as Europe’s “problem child” predates the pandemic but has been greatly reinforced by it."
"Foreign perceptions of the UK as a badly governed, disorderly, embittered and chronically divided country took deep root in the politically chaotic years that followed the 2016 Brexit referendum."
"Given that Brexit is premised on “global Britain” forging a web of dynamic new trade relationships, such reputational damage is potentially calamitous. Unpropitious, too, is the current plunge towards a world recession. The WTO predicts that trade may decline by up to 34%."
"Since 2017, Trump has blasted many holes in the foundations of UK security, defence and foreign policy. Britain long counted the US its foremost friend and vital ally. Now that bond is breaking."
"What Johnson and Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, dare not admit, for it would wholly explode their Brexit fantasies, is that Trump’s America has become an unreliable, problematic and in some respects, hostile entity, with a tendency to belittle Britain, not build it up."
#Trump means what HE says, regardless of whether it is based in reality or simply delusional!!
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
AMERICA 1st!!
The special relationship made in HELL!!
If only...#LiarJohnson and UK Government would say what they mean, and mean what they say!!
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
AMERICA 1st!!
The special relationship made in HELL!!
If only...#LiarJohnson and UK Government would say what they mean, and mean what they say!!
"Trump, the greatest of all coronavirus failures, is dangerous to know. And yet still they hug him close, risking infection, petitioning for a deal at almost any cost, ..."
"...mimicking his anti-Europe, populist posturing, rejecting pandemic cooperation with the EU and insisting, even now, that Brexit will be sewn up by December."
"A stitch-up is more likely."
#LiarJohnson and UK Government do NOT act in national interest of UK citizens!!
"A stitch-up is more likely."
#LiarJohnson and UK Government do NOT act in national interest of UK citizens!!
"The daily coronavirus briefing press conferences have been a showcase of absent talent."
"... under Boris Johnson, the aggregation of power in Downing Street is unprecedented. It resembles a campaign more than an administration."
"... under Boris Johnson, the aggregation of power in Downing Street is unprecedented. It resembles a campaign more than an administration."
"That is not surprising given prominence inside No 10 of figures from the Vote Leave referendum team, headed by Dominic Cummings."
"That faction is obsessed with information warfare and is disrespectful of Whitehall - departmental structures as relics of a dysfunctional system."
"That faction is obsessed with information warfare and is disrespectful of Whitehall - departmental structures as relics of a dysfunctional system."
"That dynamic leaves no mystery as to why the government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis is marked by indecision, inconsistency and lethal incompetence."
"An administration that values propaganda over governance and ideological purity over honesty is uniquely ill-suited to a public health emergency."
...or any aspect of governance!!
UK deserves better!!
#gnu
#SaveLives
...or any aspect of governance!!
UK deserves better!!
#gnu
#SaveLives
"Boris Johnson scrapped a team of senior ministers charged with preparing the country for a pandemic six months before the outbreak of coronavirus in the UK, according to a report."
"According to the Daily Mail, the group - called the Threats, Hazards, Resilience and Contingency Committee (THRCC)- was suspended by former prime minister Theresa May on the advice of Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill so that civil servants and ministers could focus on Brexit."
"The committee was axed without discussing virus control plans."
"The chairwoman of the National Security Council Committee, which oversees the NSC, has said she will investigate why the THRCC was cut in a cross-party inquiry into the Government's pandemic preparedness."
"The chairwoman of the National Security Council Committee, which oversees the NSC, has said she will investigate why the THRCC was cut in a cross-party inquiry into the Government's pandemic preparedness."
"Dame Margaret Beckett said: "The role of the Threats, Hazards, Resilience and Contingency sub-committee is exactly the kind of thing we will take an interest in.""
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