“Still no deal on future trade with the EU … If governing is about forward thinking, Johnson has failed. From ‘saving #Christmas’ to a hard lockdown and looming shortages of fruit and vegetables – how can it all have gone so wrong for Britain?”
nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/12…
nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/12…
Britain’s response to the pandemic had been “mired in inaction, plagued by failures of the state to mobilise and Johnson’s own destructive habit of promising false dawns simply because he cannot stand to be the bearer of bad news".
smh.com.au/world/europe/c…
smh.com.au/world/europe/c…
Boris Johnson's U-turn on #Christmas had “once more shown the yawning gulf between the prime minister’s airy promises & the real world... fast being filled with the anger & fear of a nation hit ever since by horror story upon horror story”.
welt.de/debatte/kommen…
welt.de/debatte/kommen…
Britain, “christened not long ago by a pro-Brexit lawmaker as ‘Treasure Island’ for the riches it offers, has earned another moniker: 'Plague Island’… And for their troubles, Britons largely blamed Boris Johnson... the sudden sense of being cut adrift".
nytimes.com/2020/12/21/wor…
nytimes.com/2020/12/21/wor…
The continental blockade is “even more effective than that decreed by Napoleon, cutting Britain off from the rest of Europe & from parts of the rest of the world... nothing can leave the kingdom... giving London a foretaste of its ‘regained sovereignty’.”
liberation.fr/planete/2020/1…
liberation.fr/planete/2020/1…
“The pressure is mounting. The short time left until the end of transition has been exacerbated by alarm over the new variant, & the closing of EU borders. The chaos feared... has come 10 days early. Johnson’s reactions may even more unpredictable.”
elpais.com/internacional/…
elpais.com/internacional/…
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