Brexit hysteria now totally out of control

WITHIN Write Back every day, you will find examples of alarmist spin re Brexit.

However, now we have a new level of alarm that excels all others.

Alison Hackett (Write Back, September 3) writes that, re Ireland, “within two days of Brexit, the supermarket shelves could start to run bare”. The most serious item and first to go would be flour. The Irish bakeries could hardly bake any bread at all. “The people hungry. Shades of the famine” etc.

In Alison’s view, “This (Brexit) is an act of hostility from the UK (including Northern Ireland) to their nearest neighbour.” Now for the facts. 1. Because of the current US-China trade dispute, the US is currently desperate to export its surplus stock of farm produce, including flour, to the EU, because it is running out of warehouse space. Trump is keen to retain support from farmers, so the EU will have adequate flour.

Irish warehouses should be sufficient to hold a few more days’ supply to accommodate the extended delivery time. There will be no farm produce scarcity in the Republic, hence no famine.

2. The people’s vote for Brexit was not the plan of Cameron’s government. He truly believed that the referendum they were demanding would result in a Remain result. The majority in Parliament are opposed to Brexit, but they have to reluctantly abide by the vote.

To claim that a hard Brexit is an act of hostility toward Ireland by the UK (including Northern Ireland) is outrageous; it was as big a shock to Westminster as it was to the Dail.

If Alison had read Write Back before she had written, she would have known that there are extremely serious problems in the EU (eg the annual 900bn euros lost by corruption, the corruption in the Commission itself).

The EU is costing the UK economy a loss of £1.45bn per week and our national debt has virtually doubled to £2 trillion; trading in the EU is steadily increasing our debt.

Ireland itself has the highest national debt in the eurozone (per capita), including Greece.

In short, EU membership is not the secure, rosy picture Alison paints.