We owe so much to foreigners in our land

IT may be possible that millions who voted for Trump in the USA, and Johnson in the UK, for their policies, hostility to foreigners, and promising miracles, might be influenced by smaller factors.

We have witnessed press conferences, where neither man had any intention to answer a question. This was their chosen strategy, more obvious with Trump, to ignore any responsibility, by spouting dishonest nonsense, widely applauded by supporters, indifferent to truth.

In ‘Prime Minister’s Questions’, Johnson never intends to give an answer, but immediately attacks the questioner on some topic which has no bearing on the question. He selected this as a clever political tool, which delights most Conservative MPs in the House, judged by their response.

It is unlikely that UK Conservative voters ever did so on a basis of moral principle, any more than Trump supporters did, for emotional, populist reasons of aggressive nationalism, as in Brexit.

However, these voters, who still support Johnson, might eventually suspect this cunning strategy, that our leader, who depends upon telling lies to the political enemy to gain his undoubted success, might be lying to them also.

That is not proof that Brexit was founded from the beginning, on a structure of lies to make racism seem respectable, but one cannot deny these clear parallels with Trump.

Since then, the pandemic has displayed, to all decent people across the world, our eternal debt to foreigners.

CN Westerman Brynna, South Wales