Mae’n amlwg bod Llywodraeth y DU yn dal i gredu – mwy na thair blynedd ar ôl yr addewid y byddai negodi cytundeb da gyda’r UE yn hawdd, a bron i flwyddyn ar ôl i Brif Weinidog presennol y DU frolio bod ganddo gytundeb parod (‘oven ready’) – mai bygwth a dwndro yw’r ffyrdd gorau o orfodi’r UE i gydymffurfio. Wrth i’r DU barhau i deimlo ergyd argyfwng COVID, yr hyn sydd ei angen ar y wlad nawr yw arweinyddiaeth aeddfed, nid rhodres.
The UK Government clearly still believes – more than three years after we were promised that negotiating a good deal with the EU would be easy and nearly a year after the current Prime Minister boasted of an ‘oven ready’ deal – that bluster and threats are the way to force the EU to compromise. With the UK buffeted by the Covid crisis, what the country needs now is mature leadership not posturing.