Mark Carney’s Davos speech was a wake up call for Britain - Yorkshire Post Letters

By a fortuitous accident I found on my mobile search engine, the speech made by Mark Carney, the Canadian PM at the World Economic Forum in Davos, which deservedly got a standing ovation. It was a privilege to hear such a statesmanlike and far sighted speech which casts a ray of positive light in a world increasingly blighted by the wrecking ball rantings of the US President.

What has disappointed me in the last few days was the way that the press and other media coverage has largely ignored this momentous and far sighted alternative way forward presented so eloquently by Carney.

They chose to cover, ad nauseum, the subsequent incoherent ramblings at the same venue by Donald Trump. Carney was advocating that integrity, honesty, principles and ad hoc based problem solving groupings of medium sized powers like Canada (and presumably the UK and other European countries in or out of the EU and elsewhere in the world), to combat the large power based attempts to dominate the world by the US, Russia and China.

Could I please ask that you or one of your columnists could give this speech the attention it deserves. Failing that, I would in any case strongly recommend your readers to feed into their PC or mobile search engines ‘Mark Carney's Davos speech’.

I guarantee it will be the best half hours' listening you will have had for a long time. It made me feel positive for the first time in a long time about the world's future.

I hope that Sir Keir Starmer and opposition leaders in this country will take note and act accordingly in the future in the UK and on the world stage.