My main work these days is on #CorporateSocialResponsibility and crucial is that all your key #stakeholders #Trust you. In the absence of #trust your company, institution even your personal relationships collapse. Indeed today in this time of COVID, #PersonalResponsibility is also crucial since the wearing of face masks protects not only yourself but anyone you come into contact with. Seeing the images from the USA yesterday showing huge crowds milling about on beach fronts without masks is frightening. How can USA expect to lead the world when it cant even follow simple guidelines.
The same is true of what is going to happen after #BREXIT? Readers here know that my preference is to stop the nonsense, rejoin the EU and work together to create a better future for us all. But today, negotiations on the EU-UK relationship are in trouble partly because Michel Barnier and others on the EU side do not TRUST prime minister Boris Johnson’s government to keep its word, according to the Financial Times today.
The FT wrote that we ''see a government which came to power on the back of a Brexit campaign in 2016 that was stuffed with myths and misinformation about the EU — “lies, exaggerations and cheques that were promised but will never come”, as President Emmanuel Macron of France put it.
They see a government that wants such a radical break with EU norms and standards that it does not regard itself as bound by elements of the political declaration that accompanied the withdrawal agreement struck by Mr Johnson in October to push Brexit across the line.
They see a government hoping to dilute commitments on customs and regulatory checks in the Irish Sea, inside UK territory, that are implicit in Mr Johnson’s acceptance that Northern Ireland would remain part of the EU’s single market for goods.
Taken together, these suspicions explain why European negotiators are insisting on cast-iron legal guarantees to deter British misbehaviour once the new EU-UK relationship takes shape.
As the Financial Times’ Martin Wolf puts it, the concern in EU capitals is that the Johnson government is “irresponsible and perfidious”. "
Sorry folks, we all need good news right now and the best news would be for Parliament to get its act together and adopt Britain's new leader Sir Keir Starmer. It looks as though we can TRUST him! Agree?
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