Britain is no longer Great in eyes of world
OUR “Government” becomes ever more wasteful of taxpayers’ money, reduces liberty, fails to be efficient, destroys British traditions of strengthening morality at home and abroad, becomes increasingly hypocritical and is fixated on headlines rather than policies.
They attach limited importance to the growing poverty scourge that will reduce the lives of millions of Brits to a level that we haven’t seen since the Depression of the early 1930s.
Meanwhile, the 200-seater plane that, by flying even one asylum seeker to Rwanda, was going to stop Afghanis and others from risking their lives in the Channel, remains grounded. Some of those Afghanis will be those who helped our soldiers survive against the Taliban – the very people we had promised to bring out of Afghanistan but were left behind while the PM showed preference for a plane full of stray dogs.
This policy to defeat the people smugglers looks very much like punishment of the victims in order to get at the guilty. Are we still a Christian country?
The flight was going to cost £500,000. The cost of all the support staff was not published, but the Home Office immediately committed to a second flight.
The “boat people” are covered by a new law which makes it a criminal offence to come here to seek asylum, even if you are threatened by civil war, death or ever closer starvation. Apparently you should make for the nearest British Embassy and queue up waiting for the current backlog of 130,000 asylum applications to be cleared.
Our grandfathers who helped to write the Geneva Convention would be as ashamed, as some of us are now. We should at least be honest and drop the word Great in our national title from now on.
And yet we are short of workers and a lot of these people have English as their first or second language, such an advantage for us when we have 1.3 million employment vacancies.
The other Tory Government game is the one where other nations have to keep their international promises but Britain doesn’t. Russia is told to respect international law, but Johnson can tear up the Northern Ireland Protocol, a law he was so proud of creating so recently. The EU is lambasted because it failed to realise when it offered compromises over the protocol last October that our Government’s refusal to negotiate then would mean that we could claim to be the initiator of a similar compromise some months later.
Isn’t it a bit like primary school – it’s always their fault? How much longer?
Jeremy Hall Crockernwell