Boris Johnson is a ‘self-deceiving charlatan’ – how is he PM? – Yorkshire Post Letters

BORIS Johnson has sought to justify the Internal Market Bill (that breaches international law) on the grounds that it was necessary “so that people get what they voted for”.

The Brexit process is a total fiasco and this country is in danger of crashing out without a deal with the EU at the end of this year.

In June 2016, 52 per cent of those who voted opted for a vaguely-defined departure from the EU. Very few, if any, had in mind the present catastrophic state of affairs when they cast their ballots.

Only a self-deceiving charlatan could describe the present “Eton Mess” as “what the people voted for”. But there again, “self-deceiving charlatan” sums up our Prime Minister. If Boris Johnson is so keen that people “get what they voted for”, give the country another referendum – that either we really want the tsunami of mayhem about to hit us – or a sharp U turn and a re-joining of the R27.

From: Roger Backhouse, Orchard Road, Upper Poppleton, York.

GOVERNMENT actions are baffling. It’s not long since Boris Johnson signed up to the Withdrawal Agreement with the EU. So why now seek to override it with new legislation? Didn’t he know what he was doing?

Far from defending British interests, he sabotages any chance of a deal. No wonder so many ex-Conservative leaders and Ministers are angry.

When Dominic Cummings made his ill-fated trip to 
Barnard Castle, it became obvious there was one rule for them and another for the rest of us.

This latest blunder is another sign that for the Downing Street gang rules whether international or local are for other people. What a shocking example!

No doubt many think that instead of singing Britannia rules the waves at the Last Night of the Proms, perhaps the PM should have sung “Britannia waives the rules”. It would have been more accurate.

From: ME Wright, Harrogate.

JUSTICE Secretary, Robert Buckland, is a barrister 
(The Yorkshire Post, September 14).

Would he please outline whatever slippery “speeding celebrity” style loopholes he has in mind to define “acceptable” and “unacceptable” breakages of the law?

That might just about help this Government to cling on to whatever moral and legal status it has in Europe and the wider world.

From: John Van der Gucht, Clayton Hall Road, Cross Hills.

LOOKING skywards today, I spotted four buzzards soaring above. Were they portents of more trouble to come, like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?

The PM has enough on his plate already, even if this is partly of his own doing. If he had done his homework back when his ‘oven ready’ deal was being negotiated, he would not now be risking the UK’s international reputation by threatening to breach the Northern Ireland protocol.

The electorate secured him, his 80-seat majority in the hope that Brexit could finally be put behind us. Some hope.

From: Thomas W Jefferson, Batty Lane, Howden, Goole.

IT seems bizarre to tell Boris Johnson to pay heed to former premiers John Major and Tony Blair (The Yorkshire Post, September 14) when they are the architects of all our Brexit problems, both having entered into EU treaties passing further powers to the EU without obtaining the electorate’s consent.

Brian H Sheridan is right when he says The Yorkshire Post used to have a “right-wing drum”. It would previously have had no difficulty in identifying the public interest in the current controversy over the proposed Internal Market Bill and would have at least mentioned the EU’s devious role in falling short of its obligations.

From: Bob Watson, Baildon.

BRIAN Sheridan (The Yorkshire Post, September 14) rightly states that bias is in the eye of the beholder.

His current view is that the more conservative opinions of Bill Carmichael and Bernard Ingham are offset by the Editor and resident columnists Tom Richmond, Andrew Vine and Jayne Dowle, all of whom, he considers, are as impartial as you can get. Well, in the eye of this beholder those three columnists are certainly not impartial, with the comments of the first named being particularly biased – in my opinion. My view is that the pendulum has now swung too far the other way. Other beholders will no doubt disagree!

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James Mitchinson