Who voted for this? I’m ashamed to be British

OH my goodness, what a mess we are in.

Navy boats ready on the water to protect our fishing zones.

Given that 80% of our catch is exported to the EU you could say that we will be shooting ourselves in the foot.

Our hospitals no longer obtaining large proportion of their incomes from monies from EU citizens and countries to pay for surgery that cannot be done in their own counties and vice versa. We also send organs for transplant and receive them through the EU connection. Thousands of hospital and health care staff possibly deciding to return to their EU homelands, leaving us with a desperate shortage of skilled and experienced staff.

Affecting our way of life, travel, holidays, opportunities, to live, work and be educated abroad, additional costs for imports and exports and up to 30% increase on food and drink that we source from the EU.

Not to mention risking losing the trust and close allies we have in Europe particularly Ireland.

Pity Kent with the thousands of lorries that come through Dover weekly causing congestion at ports and motorways because of delays on checks of paperwork, which to be fair to them have not been able to be put in place by negotiations still not completed.

Other ports dealing with mountain of additional export and import paperwork

A staunch Remainer, I said in 2016 that there was not a government that we had had, Conservative or Labour, that in the past 20 years I would trust to handle leaving the EU but I take no pleasure in seeing the shambles this has become. Who the hell voted for this? It makes me ashamed to be British.

Of course they can conveniently blame Covid-19 for any issues that are really related to Brexit.

And, as we wade though the Covid crisis, we hear that one in five care home workers are not willing to have the vaccine. Why, when they have

seen what the virus can do?

Don’t throw away all this hard work

AS a business owner in Honley and a resident in the neighbouring village of Netherton, I like many others am frustrated about our current Tier 3 status.

However, I echo Stewart Preston’s view that with light at the end of the tunnel it would be silly to throw all the hard work away.

Personally, I am not against ID cards although I know a lot of people are and I recognise both sides of the argument. In addition, with so much going on at the moment, much of which is still unresolved, that debate is for another day.

However, it is only such a system that could guarantee the ultra low infection rated residents of Honley and Brockholes alone enjoyed the local hospitality on offer.

People, just like the virus, will always cross borders and that’s the danger.