UK reputation now in jeopardy from the ‘party of law and order’ – Yorkshire Post Letters

I, AS well as many of my friends, am deeply concerned by the Government’s plan to break promises made in the Withdrawal Agreement; an international treaty signed less than a year ago. The Northern Ireland Secretary admitted 
this would break international law.

The Internal Markets Bill would renege on commitments to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland and would set negotiations with Europe back to square one.

The Conservatives pride themselves on being the party of law and order, of economic stability and of the Union. Now the Government is openly breaking international law and paving the way to a no-deal economic disaster. How can the Conservative and Unionist Party jeopardise the hard-won peace in Northern Ireland?

The Prime Minister does not speak for ordinary Conservatives. He was elected to deliver a comprehensive, ‘oven-ready’ deal with Europe, which would help communities and businesses like mine. Yet his actions threaten not only the reputation of the Conservative Party, but the global reputation of the UK as a trustworthy nation.

From: Diana Wallis, Former MEP Yorkshire & the Humber 1999-2012 and Vice President of the European Parliament 2007-2012.

BILL Carmichael (The Yorkshire Post, September 11) has clearly not followed the antics of his leading Brexiteer compatriots when they were members of the European Parliament.

From chairing sessions there, I am only too familiar with their ultimately rather tiresome antics (I am tempted to say public school boy antics) in that every time they got up to speak they used the phrase pacta sunt servanda as a form of call to arms or challenge to the EU. I have no doubt that there was a little irony and some satisfaction from the Commission President in throwing this phrase back in the UK’s direction.

From: Brian H Sheridan, Lodge Moor, Sheffield.

OBSERVING Ed Miliband’s evisceration of the Prime Minister in the House of Commons (The Yorkshire Post, September 15), I wasn’t sure whether Boris Johnson’s expression was one of boredom, contempt, despair or all three.

There wasn’t the slightest attempt to put on a brave face. Vaulting ambition took him to where he is but I can’t imagine anyone so manifestly wanting to be somewhere else.

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