Many people who voted for Brexit did so in the belief that the Johnson government would negotiate a withdrawal agreement with the EU which would be beneficial to both sides economically and politically. In the event, the hard-liners supporting Johnson stuck out for the worst possible agreement economically and Johnson has now gone back on the political dispensation which was agreed. The sanctions against the war-monger Putin have been weakened as a reault.
The European Movement UK writes:
We now face the biggest security crisis in Europe since the
Second World War with Britain in a weakened and compromised
position.
We have a government that is utterly
compromised by taking Russian cash to fund its elections. It is
telling that our government’s first response was a fraction of the
sanctions sought by EU leaders.
It is led by an inveterate
liar, currently being investigated under police caution, lacking any
moral authority to speak on behalf of our country.
Above all, this government has undermined European security, not
just by walking out of the main framework for cooperating with its
neighbours, but by doing so in such a way as to engender mistrust and
distance us from our friends and allies.
The EU Withdrawal
Agreement’s Political Declaration in which both the UK and EU
committed to "establish a broad, comprehensive and balanced security
partnership" that would allow them to work together on "evolving
threats, including serious international crime, terrorism,
cyber-attacks, disinformation campaigns, hybrid threats, the erosion
of the rules-based international order and the resurgence of
state-based threats".
This is exactly the threat that Putin poses to Ukraine and
the rest of Europe.
Boris Johnson reneged on that agreement.
It's another example, not that we needed it, of how Brexit isn’t
working. It's another example of how Brexit has weakened Britain,
undermined our friends and allies, and played its part in breaking
such a hard-earned peace in Europe.
Peace and prosperity. We spoke about it so often in the
2016 referendum campaign. We spoke about how together we are a
stronger force on the international stage.
Just as European Movement president Lord Heseltine has said, once
there was a time, not so long ago, that the United Kingdom would have
led in the defence of European democracy. It has now absented itself,
just as it will on every other threat facing our world that yearns for
strength through international union.
It is why we must do everything we can to reverse
it.
Best wishes,
Richard Corbett CBE European Movement UK
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