Immigration was the key issue for many people in Brexit vote

I don’t want to get involved in an in-depth analysis of major factors involved in the Brexit issue - I couldn’t do it anywayrather I want to express a sort of gut feeling on the part of many who voted to be out of the European community. For sure we are fed up of being told we didn’t know what we were voting for, that we were in some way conned.

What a feeble attack on the part of the moaners. Most of us voted out on the key issue of immigration, in consideration of all the weight of discomfort this has brought on our limited resources, though at the same time admitting there have been benefits where the legal aspects have been adhered to and where a sympathy hand has been extended to those avoiding actually being victims of collateral damage associated with war. And my goodness have we been proved right since as the issue is tearing Europe apart, more particularly that of the economic migration of youth from the continent of Africa into places like Greece, Italy and Spain; countries which are failing to cope with their own rates of extremely high youth employment.

Hardly surprising then that the issue of immigration has come to prominence in so many manifestos and won the day for previously fringe parties, not only in Italy and Germany but a number of other countries who’ve ignored Brussels by going it alone and quite literally fortifying their borders.

What is at the heart of the chaos regarding the Brexit issue is that those who voted remain have not been able to take the bitter pill of defeat at the poles. All attempts so far to resolve the issue have contained far too much of an element of remain, conveniently referred to as a “Soft Brexit”. This in itself being an attempt to placate the moaners and offer them a convenient way of staying attached by many a loop hole to Europe. Conversely the “Hard Brexit” is evidently perceived by many as the only way forward to satisfy the result of the democratic vote, yet of necessity requiring a leader committed to it. Reece-Mogg evidently is one who fits the bill as he has been committed to this form of Brexit throughout whereas the present prime minister, a vote remainer, seemingly cannot shake off residues of this in forming policy.

And Labour is still far too close to the position it took before the vote. For sure Brussels will play it firm no matter how much we argue that there are aspects of trade etc. which lend themselves to a “Soft Brexit” for it realizes so many other European countries are on the verge of following our example should they offer us any concessions. David Abbott Stoke Golding