History will prove that we’re right to leave EU

IN his recent letter, Andy McDonald thinks it is a bad thing that the pound sterling has declined 14 per cent since the Brexit vote. Our exporting companies in the main would not agree with his viewpoint. Our exports to non-EU countries in the last year increased by 8.3 per cent to £311.6 billion due to rising demand all over the world. Meanwhile our exports to the EU rose only 2.8 per cent to £235.9 billion (Office of National Statistics). Britain has, since 2009, exported more goods to non-EU countries than those within the EU. In fact in the last decade, EU trade that was responsible for 54 per cent of our exports has declined to only 43 per cent of goods and services. The European Commission itself estimates that 90 per cent of global growth in the next 20 years will come from outside the EU. Trying to get wealthy countries within the EU with a great deal of high-value engineering export income to join less well-off ones without such income, and all unite within the Euro currency, is an idea that has totally failed. Andy McDonald also states that we need NHS workers from the EU to continue to work within it. The government has already stated that we will still allow workers in areas we need them, as we are short of staff to be granted work visas and eventual residency. Since the Brexit vote, all the dire warnings of doom and gloom if we vote leave have turned out to be fairytales. It is now thought that a big percentage of Remainers have changed their minds to Brexit, as they now realise the new opportunities coming our way whilst being free from complying with rules that suited some EU member countries but not the UK.

Trying to make rules and regulations to suit all 27 countries is an impossibility without some big losers. The EU is sinking fast, the time for the UK to exit was due.

History will prove it to be our best decision in decades. Paul Hillock Stoke Green