The Trumpet Newspaper Issue 567 (March 23 - April 5 2022)

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Page8 TheTrumpet MARCH 23 - APRIL 5 2022 FortheRecord We must end our dependence on Putin’s oil and gas By Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson MP A speech to the Conservative Party Spring Conference in Blackpool by The Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson MP It’s absolutely fantastic to be back here in Blackpool. I first spoke here 25 years ago, 1997. I was the freshly defeated candidate for Clwyd South. And I did the appeal. But I didn’t think they could get Jeffrey Archer that day. Because we, as you recall, we’d been more or less wiped out. And what a joy it is to come back here today, quarter of a century on and find that we have more Conservative MPs than at any time since the 1980s. And that we not only hold Clwyd South, we hold Blackpool South, my friends. As we meet today, a tragedy continues to unfold in our European continent, a vicious and a barbarian attack on innocent civilians, the likes of which we haven’t seen since the 1940s. And, Mr. Ambassador, sir, there you are. Thank you, Mr. Ambassador, Ukrainian ambassador, I want to repeat to you directly what I told your wonderful president Volodymyr Zelenskyy yesterday. We stand with the Ukrainian people, and our hearts go out to them. And tens of thousands of people in this country are opening our homes, to the people of Ukraine. We say thank you to them, and we applaud them. And with every day that Ukraine’s heroic resistance continues, it is clear that Putin has made a catastrophic mistake. And you have to ask yourself why he did it. Why did he decide to invade this totally innocent country? He didn’t really believe that Ukraine was going to join NATO anytime soon. He knew perfectly well, there was no plan to put missiles on Ukrainian soil. He didn’t really believe the semi-mystical guff, he wrote about the origins of the Russian people; Nostradamus meets Russian Wikipedia. I think that wasn’t what it was about. I think he was frightened of Ukraine for an entirely different reason. He was frightened of Ukraine, because in Ukraine, they have a free press. And in Ukraine, they have free elections. And then with every year that Ukraine progressed, not always easily, towards freedom and democracy and open markets, he feared the Ukrainian example. And he feared the implicit reproach to himself. Because in Putin’s Russia, you get jailed for 15 years, just recalling an invasion, an invasion. And if you stand against Putin in an election, you get poisoned, or shot. And it’s precisely... that’s what happens... and it’s precisely because Ukraine and Russia, have been so historically close, that he has been terrified of the effect of that Ukrainian model on him and on Russia, and he’s Continued on Page 11 >
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