Escaping EU’s grip

Re: “Fall from glory”, (PostBag, Nov 6).

It is quite clear Kuldeep Nagi has no idea what Brexit is about.

The whole concept of Brexit is to join the world once again and gain freedom from an oppressive, expansionist, corrupt and undemocratic bureaucracy obsessed with European central control.

The UK joined what was a free trade area on Jan 1, 1973, the EEC (European Economic Community, or the EC when you include the other parts of the agreement). Now as the EU (European Union) it has changed out of all recognition into the monster I describe above.

There is no question that both the EU and the UK want to continue trade, given that the EU sells the UK much more a trade deal will be made over the next couple of years in the “Transition Period” while things stay unchanged. What will also happen is the UK will negotiate its own trade deals with the rest of the world. At the end of the transition period, the UK will take back law-making capabilities from Brussels, control its own borders and continue to prosper without having to prop up 25 EU net non-contributing states.

Khun Nagi, Britain became great through world trade, invention and innovation and it freed Europe (eventually with help) from oppression on three occasions over the last 215 years. Maybe soon some of the nations taking the EU’s 30 pieces of silver will wake up to what the agenda really is.

And please don’t tell me the EU stopped inter-European wars. Whatever misguided award they got, it was Nato that did the peacekeeping.

FIREMAN SAM