EU must let Britain leave with pride intact or it risks an extremist reaction
POLITICIANS don’t ever seem to learn. Almost 100 years ago a humiliating and vindictive treaty was imposed on a broken and weakened Germany with the result that within a generation, extremist politics led to the most destructive war ever seen.
At present, a humiliating and vindictive treaty is being imposed on Britain which if implemented will almost certainly ferment extremist politics in a humiliated and weakened world power, causing untold hostility, strife and retributive action in the not too distant future.
So much damage has already been caused by protracted and bitter negotiations that Britain is far less likely to swing towards extremism if separated from, rather than subservient to, an increasingly dictatorial and very smug EU.
We can only hope that Britain will be allowed to leave peaceably with as little interrupted EU commercial interaction as possible. If forced into a humiliating climbdown or banished with shut-out hostility, extremist politics are likely to flourish. Should this happen, Ireland, the EU and Britain itself are likely to suffer great upheaval.
As for the Irish Border, it is likely to be the EU which insists on its revival to prevent American beef flavouring the dinner tables of Europe. Padraic Neary
Tubbercurry, Co Sligo