Brexiteers are declaring political, economic war

LISTENING to the Tory MP John Redwood on RTÉ radio’s ‘Morning Ireland’ yesterday reminds all of us of the attitude and motivation for the UK decision on Brexit.

It makes for a very pessimistic view as to the long-term significance of Brexit.

Mr Redwood virtually gloated at the fact that the vote for Brexit tore up the EU treaty signed with nearly 30 other European democracies.

We should remind ourselves that this is a treaty that undertook co-operation in matters of mutual interest in a continent which had been reduced to ruin over the previous centuries by imperial/ totalitarian wars.

Mr Redwood was really in his element when he was addressing the Irish people. Echoes of nearly eight centuries of the London colonial attitude to the people of this island were loud and clear.

The anti-EU propaganda that was repeated by the London media for decades about an international treaty of co-operation that is the most advanced in the world dripped from his lips.

In pontificating about the Border, there was not a mention of the fact that the vote for Brexit tore up the Good Friday Agreement signed with this country to draw a line under nearly eight centuries of colonial rule.

The implication of what Mr Redwood kept repeating, however, was that Brexit is a declaration of political and economic war, not alone on the people of the EU but especially on the citizens of this democracy and former colony.

His attitude has told us what we are facing for a long time to come as a result of Brexit, and that we have to be prepared to face the facts. Sutton, Dublin 13