WHEN former PM Theresa May triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty on March 29, 2020, Boris Johnson – with a reputation that goes before him for all the wrong reasons – took the opportunity to undermine her authority during the Brexit negotiations. 

When Mrs May resigned as PM on July 24, 2019, Boris staked his claim to his long-held ambition to be Prime Minster of the UK, which he finally achieved through a web of lies, deceit and misinformation. As an inept foreign secretary, he and Nigel Farage and his minnows untruthfully convinced the majority of the electorate that by withdrawing from the EU it would make more money available for the NHS and curb the flow of immigrants coming into the country. 

With the Brexit negotiations now being conducted by Michael Gove, one of Boris’s minnows, the negotiations have stalled, with the EU threatening the UK with legal action, as Boris is intent on overturning the Withdrawal Agreement, which is part of the Lisbon Treaty, signed by a previous UK Government. Boris’s intended rash action is therefore a serious threat to democracy and civil liberties in the UK.

R Downes
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My heart really goes out to the inhabitants of 10 Downing Street. Poor Boris is really worried he won’t be able to afford a nanny for his infant son after taking a pay cut to become PM.

He only “earns” £150,000 a year as PM. He was earning £350,000 a year previous to this as a backbencher, paper columnist and guest speaker – eyewatering sums of money for doing hee-haw, and he has the gall to complain he is struggling. Most people will never earn anywhere near £350,000 in their lifetime let alone in a year.

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Here’s an idea, Boris – if you don’t like the meagre wages in Number 10, instead of getting a nanny, you can resign and let someone else actually run the country, leaving yourself and “Mrs Johnson” free 

to do what normal parents do, bringing up your own children yourselves.

Richard Low
Twechar

IS it just me? There is so much time, effort and money in getting schools prepared for the return of pupils during this pandemic. One of the rules is related to the spacing of the desks, and another is the social distancing of pupils in the school corridors.

I can’t understand the logic of these rules because I have seen pupils in groups of six or eight, all huddled together walking to school for considerable distances. No doubt if there is an outbreak of Covid-19 in any school, it will be the school management to blame.

Daniel Harris
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