Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

This is a very significant moment. Even if the UK Supreme Court finally  rules in favour of the government, it will be on a point of law rather than the issue which offends the majority of MPs and a large slice of the voting public, especially among the young. Boris has not told the truth about why he needs such a long prorogation, when three days would do. In other words everyone accepts he is a liar. That may prove a problem. Which does not go away.

John Bolton.This super-hawk who terrifies even hawks,  should never have been appointed in the first place. Since he became NSA almost everything in US Diplomacy has failed. Iran, North Korea, Israel and the Palestinians, Afghanistan, China Trade War,  the list goes on. Promises, expectations and many, many tweets but so little actual progress anywhere.

The President knows his own day of reckoning is coming.  He must get something he has promised closed out and settled by November 2020. Or else early in that month he will have a very bad day. Getting rid of John Bolton has given him a  chance of a more joined up approach to all these many difficult issues. His backers will hope this begins to lead to results. Otherwise he will be remembered as the tweeting president who, after cutting a few regulations and fixing tax cuts for the rich, killed the economic boom he helped to create and delivered almost nothing else he had promised.

Having said that, if Trump fails to win a second term, there will be very few people in the wider world outside America who will be sorry.