Dear Anne,
I have been reading the Sunday Times report on Operation Yellowhammer and am appalled that any government should even consider putting the UK in a position in which the scenarios envisioned by Yellowhammer might come about.
I wrote to you over two years ago suggesting that the then government was exhibiting severe symptoms of “press-on-itis”. The current administration does not appear to have learned the inherent lessons of the past two years and has all the appearance of taking the country on a disastrous course simply because it has done a little bit of planning for such an outcome. The history of Brexit has been one of piling one mistake onto another and on current evidence here is little reason to believe that the future will be any different.
It does not have to be like this. A pause (if the EU will grant it – and I suspect they would), reasoned and evidence-based debate, and rational, clear-headed, creative thinking could extricate this country from the unholy mess in which it currently languishes. It is quite possible that a vote of no confidence in the Johnson administration will be the only way to achieve this aim. Many an MP will, no doubt, regard supporting such a move as political suicide. If ever there was a time to adhere to “country first, party second, self third”, now is that time.
Yours sincerely
Richard Bawden
Part 54 is here.
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