Voters were hoodwinked by Cameron’s risky gambit

IT was made quite clear before the EU referendum that a vote to leave would mean leaving the customs union. Yet some MPs continue to press for the UK to remain in a customs union, leaving us under ECJ jurisdiction and unable to negotiate our trade agreements.

What was not made clear was the risk arising from David Cameron’s failure to obtain binding agreement from the EU on treaty change. Without that, the UK would be far from certain of avoiding ever-closer union and the continued emasculation of Parliament.

So if anything was missing from the ballot paper, it was the advice that, “if you vote to remain, accept the risk of remaining in the EU as it progresses towards ever closer fiscal, political and military union”.

That omission was as serious as the deception in the 1975 referendum that people were voting to stay in a common market.

Why do some MPs ignore the fact that the British people have never voted for the powers of Parliament (including its vetoes) to be removed? Let them once and for all expose the deception.

The EU has made clear in so many ways that the era of the nation state is over for countries which remain in the EU.

Those MPs who remain silent on this issue are complicit in the deception and should hang their heads in shame. Roger Arthur, Storrington, W Sussex