The UK is not in the UN’s good books. It’s due to a largely sluggish response to the Dover Crossings crisis. Its unfolding narrative has lasted for over seven years now, and has exposed the country to embarrassing international rebuke.
The problems have been obvious. It’s the disruption to shipping patterns in the English Channel and the resultant security threats that prove that there are weaknesses in our approach to global trade arrangements.
“The English Channel cannot be compromised”, one European lawyer said to me years ago, and it’s now showing to have happened in many different ways. It’s also seen in public feelings of unrest.
It’s not been remedied by successive leadership teams in politics, or in Government departments, and its clear up has been disrupted by successive hostile attempts at takeover by ignorant and obsessive UK-based socialist groups.
According to a UN source, “there’s never been a greater threat to global trade.” It’s now worrying officials at high levels too because the UK has shown a weakness in self-organisation that cannot be excused away by EU-blaming.