Lord Frost’s warning that UK is ‘in peril of giving up’ as he fears for future

Lord Frost has warned he “fears for the future of Britain” with political institutions “just about managing” perspective to working the nation.

The former particular advisor to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and chief negotiator with the EU over Brexit launched a pessismistic evaluation.

Writing in the Telegraph he cited the instance of the long-closed Hammersmith Bridge in London as a metaphor for Britain in the present day.

The Victorian construction spanning the River Thames has been shut for 4 years with none resolution from the Labour native authority or from Conservative central authorities.

Bemoaning the farcical delay in fixing the bridge, he wrote: “I dwell on it because it seems deeply symbolic. As the Roman Empire in the West ended, so people stopped looking after its infrastructure. Aqueducts were repurposed and bridges failed.

“That’s why I see their modern parallels as the canary in the coalmine for a civilisation that is finding it harder to do the basics.”

The 58-year-old went on to quote extra examples of decay within the UK, together with crumbling concrete in faculties, long-running rail strikes and big backlogs within the NHS.

Lord Frost added there was a perception within the “political class” that nothing else is feasible besides “comfortable decline” after the nation settled right into a “torpor” through the pandemic.

“I really fear for the future of Britain if we don’t get off this path”, he observed.

He continued that for him the “ruling class” in Britain had been extra involved with defending their very own “privileges” than advancing anybody else’s wants.

To illustrate this level Lord Frost identified how the NatWest board had tried to guard Alision Rose over the Nigel Farage de-banking scandal, and the way the British Museum underneath George Osborne didn’t in his view appear to take severely a current spate of thefts.

Chillingly Baron Frost mentioned the failure of NHS managers in Chester to heed warnings about Lucy Letby’s murderous spree on the neonatal wards was one other instance.

The peer ended his piece saying he understood why so many “think the system is rigged” and that the subsequent era might imagine “it’s better to try socialism”.