LAST week you gave my letter about Bill Wiggin’s opposition to environmental protection the excellent title “One tiny word” thereby stressing that the exact use of language matters.

At this weekend’s G7 summit, President Biden and EU leaders urged Prime Minister Johnson to fully implement the Northern Ireland protocol that he personally negotiated and accepted even though the concept of a border down the Irish Sea had been rejected as incompatible with the principles of the Conservative and Unionist Party when Theresa May was trying to finalise Brexit.

Now Mr Johnson and his Brexiteer cabinet accuse the EU as being “purist” when they insist on implementation of the agreed terms of a treaty endorsed by both the UK and EU Parliaments.

How is “purist” different from “upholding the rule of law” which Mr Johnson and his ministers rightly say is the basis for a civilised democracy: and to which he and the US president committed themselves in a revitalised Atlantic Charter as recently as June 10, just before the same summit.

Perhaps one of Herefordshire’s two MPs would like to explain in their next Talking Point column?

Jill Hanna
Leominster

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