British government on solo run with special envoy appointment 16 June, 2021 00:59 Brandon Lewis, secretary of state for the north of Ireland, is hoping that many of the general American public, ever sympathetic towards the island of Ireland, may, through the British government’s appointment of Trevor Ringland to assist as a special envoy in the United States, graduate from a state of instinctive sympathy and love for Ireland to the beginning of an ‘intelligent’ one. Akin to the monkey and the piano player. Unionists have never been interested in creating a shared space and conflict obviously followed. Recently we are observing a complete polarisation of politics caused by Brexit, with the consequences of damaging the Good Friday Agreement. The British government are in complete disarray and are on a solo run with their proposed special envoy to the US – I suspect for the reasons of the delicate trade negotiations ongoing between the UK and the US. Boris Johnson, who can play the fool at times, knows how serious the Americans are about the GFA. The decision to unilaterally make such an appointment directly relating to the north’s interests and priorities without consulting the democratically mandated executive hints of Tory arrogance and disrespect. Why are we surprised? It does not need interference from the Tories in how to engage with the US public.