The young have not been sold down river

THREE years and four months of most members of the House of Commons and House of Lords trying to stop Brexit has been a complete waste of time.

Remainers have put every possible hurdle in the way of Boris Johnson getting a decent deal for the population of the UK.

I always watch Question Time every Thursday and have been staggered by the weak reasons politicians have given as to why they continued to stop Brexit.

Many time members of the audience, often in remain areas, stated that they voted remain but respected the vote, and would now vote leave after witnessing all the plots that remain politicians did in cahoots with the EU.

If this is any indication of what will happen in December’s vote then the Tories will win a working majority. The majority of young people think that the older generation has sold them down the river and messed up their future job prospects.

This is not the case the EU in the last 20 years has grown at a yearly rate of 1.2 % mainly due to the 45,000 civil servants inventing yet more rules that make setting up a business far more costly. Meanwhile The USA has grown very near to twice that yearly rate within that same time period.

I am no admirer of Donald Trump and some of his well dodgy views on history and climate change, however a recent TV news item focused on the normally Democrat voting former steel producing city of Cincinnati where many voters would now vote for Trump as he has got the economy booming, whereas the Democrats for many years had failed to do so.

Scottish voters need to be wary of the SNP’s promises of a future wealthy Scotland if they vote for independence. That country has a bigger land area than England with a population of only five million compared to at least 60 million in England. As a result there are many miles of roads and railways to be funded by far fewer people.

This applies to all other public services that will all give a greater tax bill to both individuals and companies.

Paul Hillock,

Stoke Green

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