The long, slow decline in Britain's standing has started. This report HERE in The Guardian about expert evidence from Sir John Sawers to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee describing the diminishing status of this country is only to be expected. The loss of the seat at the International Court of Justice that was expected to go to an EU member state went instead to India.
For the first time in its 70 year history there will be no British judge at the ICJ (HERE).
Last month, in the Brexit negotiations it was clear that Ireland had a substantial role in getting the agreement they wanted because they were backed by the EU. This summer we lost a dispute at the UN over the Chagos islands (HERE) when Germany, France and Italy abstained in a crucial vote.
The Select Committee last week heard that the EU had backed sanctions on Argentina in 1982 because of solidarity with the UK but this may not be true in future.
A member of the Committee, a Brexiteer Nusrat Ghani accused Sir John Of gloom and doom but was quickly shot down. Last week in another Select Committee, this time on International Trade, Nigel Evans accused the experts in front of him of being "pessimistic".
These people still don't get it do they?
