Franco-British war of words

Boris has bungled. Writing a letter to the French government, setting out what he wants France to do to meet the growing migrant problem, and then publishing it on his Twitter account smacks of Trump. With such a sensitive issue dividing Britain from France, these sort of things need to be dealt with confidentially, especially with the French who get very uptight very quickly if they think the Brits are trying to get one over them. Basically, since Brexit, the French government under Macron despises the Brits and Boris in particular. So to publish his demands on Twitter will be seen in Paris as Boris throwing down the gauntlet like a schoolboy in the playground. They immediately cancelled the invitation to Pritti Patel, the Home Secretary, to attend a crucial meeting with the EU countries affected by the present crisis. Patel was disinvited. I bet she didn't appreciate that. What a farce, grownups or alleged grownups behaving like spoilt children. And now we have yet another variant of Covid potentially to hit our shores with an even more dangerous pedigree. Boris has cancelled all flights from South Africa and other African countries as from today (Friday) but the variant was first discovered in South Africa on Tuesday, so two whole days went by with many flights arriving in the UK. How many of the passengers will have brought the new virus with them? It won't be long before the whole of Europe is suffering from the so-called Nu variant which might be too strong for the vaccines and make everyone vulnerable once again. Is anything going right at the moment? It seems not.