As the son of parents who served in the Second World War and grandfathers in the First World War, I am appalled at the antics going on in Parliament as the country and perhaps the whole of Europe faces its gravest crisis since the last world war.

A crisis brought about by President Putin who knows that NATO is in no position to stop whatever he decides to do.

During the Cold War British and American troops stationed in West Germany were ready to go to war to defend Europe at half an hour’s notice.

Successive governments in this country and Western Europe have been asleep at the wheel while Putin has gone about re-arming Russia.

We are totally unprepared militarily to counter whatever action he now decides to take.

The opposition parties in this country, ably assisted by the media, would rather bay for Boris Johnson’s blood than put ‘Partygate’ to one side and get behind the Prime Minister (who else is there?), at this grave hour, to help him galvanise NATO and support the people of Ukraine who we and the USA undertook to defend when it gave up its nuclear weapons to Russia.

FEARFUL

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