Brexit confusion benefits nobody
ENOUGH is enough. It’s time to wake up, come to our senses and turn the good ship Great Britain around. Next time you’re out and about in our towns and cities, take a good look in the doorways and see all the rough sleepers.
Well, once we’re out of the EU this problem will get worse. And that’s not all – hospital waiting lists are going to get longer, empty shops on the high street will become the norm and you can kiss goodbye to manufacturing on any large scale.
Basically, judging by this Government’s handling of Brexit, we are signing our own death warrant of being any influence on the world stage and we will be lucky to become a Third-World backwater.
L Blackburn, Norwich
# As a Brexiteer, I am fed up with Remainers saying that the EU is our biggest trading partner and we must be mad to stop trading with them. Of course they are our main trading partner at the moment because, as members, it makes sense. Once we leave the EU we will be free to trade wherever it suits us and that includes the EU as well. At first we will suffer financially while we go about negotiating new trade deals, but with our British spirit and freedom to take control of our own destiny eventually we will be better off.
Syd Fox Hornchurch, Gtr London
# Recently, Conservative backbenchers sent Theresa May a list of hard Brexit demands, triggering a furious reaction from colleagues who branded the letter a “ransom note”.
Don’t these selfish Tory MPs care what effect a hard Brexit will have on Britain, like putting thousands of people out of work, making it a less attractive place for foreign firms to invest in and, no doubt, put a further squeeze on the cost of living for many millions of families?
T Davis, Kidderminster, Worcs
# I voted to leave the EU and I think I speak for the vast majority who followed suit when I say I did so for two reasons only – to control our own borders and make our own laws.
If you laid out the economic advantages and disadvantages in front of us, the chances are we would not understand a word of it.
The point I am making is; it is futile for the Government to be more transparent with the public unless the EU is prepared to give us what we voted for in the first place.
Roger Grant, Thurnscoe South Yorks
# I am tired of reading comments talking about the “vast majority” who voted to leave the EU. There was only a small majority and if the young people could have voted, undoubtedly it would have been very different outcome. And it is their future, after all. I’m 80 and voted to remain as I think there is more security in being in the EU than being alone in this troubled world. How I wish we had a competent government to deal with it.
D Hughesdon South London
# I voted for Brexit, but I am now asking myself if it is really going to be worth it. I cannot see it being anything but a disaster.
J Foster, Birmingham