Troublemakers will get comeuppance

DEAR Editor, How sad it is that the Labour opposition falls so short of providing the statesmanship and constructive co-operation with government that the delivery of a clean and successful Brexit demands.

Having lured back ex-UKIP voters with the promise that the Party would honour and work to implement the Referendum vote, Labour MPs have frittered precious parliamentary time trying to score cheap party points, routinely siding with the EU Commissioners, and gleefully ridiculing the latest perceived faux pas by Boris Johnson.

Far from connecting with their core voters in the Midlands and the North who plainly want Parliament to ‘get on with Brexit’, they have effectively abandoned them to embark on a headlong pursuit of a capricious teenage vote.

Arrogantly reinterpreting what motivated Brexit voters they are now preparing to further undermine withdrawal negotiations by championing membership of ‘A’ customs union, “which will closely replicate” ‘THE’ Customs Union.

Designed to facilitate trade within its own market by discouraging outside trade through a system of protective external tariffs, this institution has proved to be – as it was so intended – the principal engine of EU integration.

With member countries increasingly dependent on their protected market, it becomes easier to implement political obligations.

Thus, when Labour tell us that we can leave the EU but still stay in the Customs Union, it is rather like saying that of course they believe in the abolition of capital punishment, but would bring back hanging.

Should Labour continue to treat with contempt their core supporters and to disregard the counsels of the likes of Gisela Stuart and Frank Field, who really know what the EU is all about, at the next General Election they may reap a whirlwind that will make the