An open letter to Boris Johnson
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Dear Boris Johnson,
I am aware that people who serve in leadership positions are often motivated by the legacy they leave behind. No one would wish the current COVID crisis on any world leader.
@BorisJohnson @ConHome
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Dear Boris Johnson,
I am aware that people who serve in leadership positions are often motivated by the legacy they leave behind. No one would wish the current COVID crisis on any world leader.
@BorisJohnson @ConHome
However, to add the man-made project of Brexit to the natural crisis of COVID adds needless stress to a country about to have its resilience tested in ways that are unimaginable in peace time.
An 11% GDP hit from COVID x a 5-9% additional hit from Brexit will produce a lasting L-shaped (L = LONG) recession. For the good of the country and in terms of how you will be viewed by history, I ask you to demonstrate true leadership and turn back from this “Britastrophe”.
I write as someone with 12 business books behind me, an original career in pharmaceutical science and business academia to ask you to reconsider Brexit at this crucial time. Your reputation would rise to mythical status if you were to turn back or suspend #Brexit
This would give time to work through the COVID crisis and provide Government with the bandwidth to address the problems, economically, socially, medically and politically.
I spend a lot of my time on the street at events and ...
I spend a lot of my time on the street at events and ...
... have spent 1000's of hours talking with people about their attitudes towards Brexit in my vote leave area. It becomes apparent that the “will of the people” is now largely a myth, with only a few hard-core leavers clinging on to the idea that Brexit will be good for them ...
... and, of course, a few of your more extreme colleagues in the Conservative Party. A credible opposition is building (I don’t vote for them, but it is always wise to change one’s mind as circumstances change) and your majority, won on the weakness of Jeremy Corbyn ...
... is already under threat from within the #NRG group in your own party. You will be aware that five former PMs across the political spectrum have come out against the folly of Brexit.
If you have recently turned back from the extremes of your party as a one nation @Conservatives, please show this in practice now.
@CUPWomensPledge
@CUPWomensPledge
I hope that you will choose to be remembered as the Prime Minister who was big and clever enough to say “Circumstances have changed and Brexit is no longer the best option”. Be the bigger man and ask the #EU27 to readmit the #UK as a global partner of choice.
Peter Cook
Peter Cook
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