Readers reflect on the deepening divisions between the four nations
The union is not in peril (Union in peril as PM ‘speaks for England alone’, former civil servant warns, 12 April). It is a political Norwegian Blue parrot, nailed to its perch but clearly, to any rational observer, an ex-union. Hitler and Napoleon failed, but Boris Johnson will go down in history as the man who destroyed the UK. Tony Blair and John Major warned that a mismanaged Brexit would prove disastrous to the Good Friday agreement. Johnson and his supporters went for an extreme form of Brexit, deciding to leave the EU customs union and single market, from which the present Northern Ireland disaster directly, predictably and inevitably followed. The chances are high that a referendum will result in a vote for Irish reunification within the lifetime of this parliament.
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