Fergus Finlay: Brexit Britain's response to Ukraine crisis is an international joke
US president Joe , Britain’s prime Boris Johnson, and France’s president Emmanuel share a light moment ahead of the start of a G7 summit last month.
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US president Joe Biden, Britain’s prime minister Boris Johnson, and France’s president Emmanuel Macron share a light moment ahead of the start of a G7 summit last month. Picture: Getty
More and more I believe that for Britain, the end of history is at hand. To put it another way, when the history of this century is written, Brexit will be seen to have been a terrible mistake that doomed ‘Great Britain’ to irrelevance.
Over time, its economy will dwindle, its people will become more and more disenfranchised, its leadership (especially if it remains as it is now) will come to be seen as an international joke.
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