No chance of a good EU deal, so let’s walk away

SO TUC leader Frances O’Grady accuses Theresa May of having a Brexit “Santa wish list” [News and leader, September 11]. With the EU, everything is their way or no way; you cannot negotiate with these people. You’re not dealing with a country, you’re dealing with an organisation that represents 28 countries and all have to agree or be forced to agree on the terms and conditions of any deal.

Personally I can’t see us getting a deal with them in two years that’s worth a jot. The best bet for the UK is to walk away from the talks and tell the EU to stick its fantasy divorce bill.

ICELAND has a free-trade agreement, so why not us? If we walk away, the pound is worth more than 10 per cent less than last year, so dealing on world-trade tariffs will allow us to sell at last year’s prices with a 10 per cent tariff.

Anything we buy in will be 20 per cent more expensive from the EU. Walk away tomorrow, tell them that until they pay us the £9 billion rebate we are owed they will get no deal.

THERE are those who still want Brexit to fail just to cut their noses off to spite their faces, rather than hope it works for future generations of our country. That is unbelievable.

THOSE Labour MPs who defied the whip and voted for the Government’s EU Withdrawal Bill have to get their heads screwed back on. They cannot vote for something that is going to affect the country dramatically just because they don’t want to be seen as blocking Brexit.

You are not doing your job if you let this happen. You are taking away the democracy of the people if you take the authority straight from the EU and give it to a handful of biased MPs. This is suicide. Get your heads together and get behind Jeremy Corbyn on this.

I AM staggered that any Leaver would still believe Brexit is a good idea. David Davis couldn’t negotiate his way out of a paper bag, the Conservatives are tearing themselves apart over it and the other EU nations increasingly think we’re idiots.

BREXIT is a bad idea. Why would the UK leave the biggest internal market based on the same human rights, democracy, free trade, competition law, judicial independence and the rule of law it helped Europeans to develop? Of course it’s not perfect, but what can be better than that?

NIGEL Farage was upset by European flags being waved at the Last Night of the Proms on Saturday? Good.