![]() Barely one in three voters thinks that former Prime Minister Boris Johnson kept his promise to get Brexit done, according research for the New European. Pretending that Brexit can be positive is dishonest, playing into the hands of the Government, and undermining our national interest.ĭon’t just take my word for it. Keir Starmer’s meaningless platitude to ‘make Brexit work’ – when it’s clearly already doing immeasurable damage to trade, businesses, the economy and diplomatic relations – simply won’t cut it. ![]() Other political parties simply aren’t prepared to talk about this, either. Wondering what’s happened to him now? He’s the economic brains behind Team Truss. ![]() Her approach to the protocol would commit to ripping up a treaty which her Government negotiated flouting international law and seizing power from a Parliament which her Brexiteer colleagues always claimed was sovereign.įollowing last month’s kami-Kwasi budget, this Government has never looked more out of control (Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire) With our natural environment at risk of even greater destruction, Truss is also willing to ride roughshod over the Northern Ireland protocol, threatening peace secured by the Good Friday Agreement. When we are already one of the most nature-depleted countries on Earth – with barely half our biodiversity left – this Government seems determined to plunge us into a race to the bottom, purely in the name of pro-Brexit zealotry. Not to mention plans for new ‘investment zones’ announced in Kwasi Kwarteng’s omnishambles mini budget last month that will loosen essential planning laws to protect nature. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) claimed last month that they’re ‘not scrapping the schemes’, but I won’t hold my breath. This Government seems determined to plunge us into a race to the bottom, purely in the name of pro-Brexit zealotry Part of this Brexit-fuelled assault on nature is the potential scrapping of the post-EU Environmental Land Management Scheme – a crucial programme that would have replaced the old payments for production with support for farmers and landowners to enhance nature by creating rare habitats as well as slashing emissions. It could also permit the release of nitrates and phosphates into rivers, abolish all of our pesticide protections, and so much more. A bonfire of 570 environmental laws, which could destroy the habitat regulations that have protected our most precious wildlife and green spaces for 30 years, according to campaigners.
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