I guess the only question really is whether the Prime Minister is lying to business leaders, or to the EU, or to the British public but the likely answer is that he is lying to everyone.
[registration_form]This doesn’t look good.
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To say Johnson is two faced is putting it very mildly, more like 3 or four faced. I have met him and spoken to him when he was MP for Henley and I found him not in the least interested in what I had to say about marine conservation. only concerned with his own ego.
As people have been saying he is a nationalist not a conservative, he is a poor man’s Trump, similar in very many ways. Let’s hope he ends up in a similar way.
However I think people concerned with helping nature, wildlife and the environment must be prepared for quite a number of legal actions. Wild Justice will be busy..
So the race to the bottom is underway. A tragedy that will leave just Boris and his cronies richer, everyone else poorer – more outsourcing, less protection for workers and the sort of callous disregard for the worse off epitomised by the supremely priveleged Jacob Ress-Mogg. here comes the pound shop nation !
The only way Boris Johnson ever tells the truth to anyone, himself included, is by accident. He says whatever is most convenient for himself at any given time. He’s the British Trump.
Well a big part of the Brexit project has been about ripping up ‘red tape’ from Brussels and there are squadrons of ERG free marketeers lined up behind Johnson who are just itching to put the match to the fire, so my guess is that it is the EU and those of us who would wish him to honour promises not to weaken standards of environmental protection who will end up most disappointed.
This is classic Boris Johnson, forever promising square circles – we can be outside of the EU yet continue to enjoy all of the benefits; we can have no border with Ireland and at the same time no restrictions on trade between Northern Ireland and Great Britain; we can maintain high standards (hollow laugh) of environmental protection whilst removing the rules and controls on business that protect those standards. He makes promises simply as a means of booting the can down the road and then blithely breaks them as soon as it is convenient to do so.
As Roderick says, this is the start of a race to the bottom. It is deeply depressing but not unexpected.