Brexit is a threat to our security

OF all the many damaging reasons for the UK to break away from the EU, the idea of having different national laws separating countries must be the stupidest, since international criminals of all sorts, from corporation tax dodgers to murderous terrorists, must be the ones who will benefit most from such changes, dividing the work of 28 national police forces, law courts, intelligence plus surveillance agencies and security experts. Common laws defend us all.

It cannot be that Mrs May and the Brexiteers wish to be accomplices of the Isis terrorists who are intent to kill citizens of any European country, but it must be as clear to all law-abiding citizens, as it is to the scheming terrorists, that the closer the legal systems of these countries are to each other in shared values, also in their practical application over national borders, the safer we are.

It defies the common sense of the most jingoistic, nationalistic Brexiteer who has no intention to justify with any logic his shallow emotional desire to keep foreigners at bay. He is making life more difficult for honest immigrants who are often the victims of the terrorists, but tremendously more easy for homicidal terrorists who will play upon the conflict and legalistic disparity between the practical application of different laws of different nations, to their maximum advantage.

It is an insane policy, given the present known facts, to create barriers to the efficiency between those who seek to save us.

Neville Westerman Brynna