Short spoons.....
“World leading and ahead of the game” is a government mantra which starts almost every press release and statement regardless of the facts.
Yet the governments response to the war in Ukraine has been slow, weak, and shamefully inadequate in two vital respects.
Compared to the EU its offer to asylum seekers is disgraceful, apparently not even the illegal invasion of a fellow European democracy is enough to weaken the grip that populists have on the Tory party’s throat.
The UK’s sanctions on oligarchs are also pathetic, weak, full of holes and apparently specifically designed to let them get their money out of the UK before they come into force.
The two issues are not unrelated, the government is beholden to two things.
The populist vote and Russian money controlled by the oligarchs.
It supped with the devil and with a short spoon.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.