Trust the Tories to drag us down

WHEN you have a prime minister ready to break the law without a second thought, no one is going to believe a word he says.

This situation has been coming for months after negotiating a deal but I believe Cummings has manipulated this situation. So just who is prime minister of the UK?

If Johnson presses ahead with breaking international law then I believe the USA will not risk a trade deal with us. So who are we going to trade with?

We are stuffed.

Tony Howard

Salford, Gtr Manchester

After 22 years of a peace agreement, that peace is still fragile and Boris Johnson is prepared to double cross in an inevitable self-defeating strategy.

“The Brexit deal never made sense,” says the man who negotiated it, signed it, prevented MPs from scrutinising it, campaigned for it and won a general election on the back of it.

I’m sick to my back teeth of this Government.

Nichola Lashmar, London

It started when Johnson defended Cummings and his breach of lockdown rules, which caused lasting anger and resentment over it being one rule for them and another for us. Johnson expects everyone to follow the law yet he is happy to break the international law. That is a huge problem for a prime minister who needs everyone on side, working together to stop the

spread of infection. He has shown himself to be dishonest and clearly not above breaking the law himself.

It’s hypocritical and a huge problem of his own making. Amanda Brown

Pulham St Mary, Norfolk

Laws are there to be broken – only if you’re Boris, that is. I bet the EU can’t wait to be shot of us after his latest antics. Potential trading partners won’t give us the time of day after this absolute farce.

What an embarrassment.

C Davies, Liverpool

Funny that the Tory government who intend, in the words of Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis, “to break international law in a very specific way”, is the same Tory government who want to class Extinction Rebellion as an organised crime group.

Sasha Simic, London

This is not Theresa May’s deal, it’s Johnson’s deal. He agreed to border checks at British ports enabling a potentially indefinite two- system regime of customs

controls between NI and the mainland. He boasted of his “oven-ready” deal and sold it to the electorate and parliament at the tail end of last year.

He alone bears full responsibility. Did he plan to do this all along, cynically duping the electorate, parliament, Northern Ireland and the EU in 2019? Was it all just to get his government re-elected?

If so, he signed the withdrawal agreement in bad faith – a dishonest broker. No such man can ever be trusted.

Carole Harris, Kent

It now appears that to get a nodeal Brexit, which they have wanted all along, Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and their dubious advisor Cummings are prepared to get the UK a bad reputation by breaking international law. How much more deviousness must we have to put up with?

They are prepared to go to any lengths to secure their precious no deal, despite the advice against it by economists and business leaders.