Brexit debate rumbles on

I’ve been watching with interest the passionate letters on the debate about Brexit or Fixit.

As a devotee of Allegory I am reminded of the seaside show with the children open-mouthed and google-eyed, watching the performance before them, played out in a tent.

Nobody can see who is pulling the levers.

All the time we have the main character who is ‘in charge’ of the proceedings…. (And Sovereign). He has a big stick which he pinched from the policeman.

The baby, having lost its dummy starts crying, and gets whacked with the stick as does Mum who comes to baby’s aid.

The policeman returns but gets hit with his own stick and disappears.

The crowd of onlookers roar and cheer, not knowing who is winning… and whist all this is going on, the crocodile pinches the sausages. Show over.

Never fails to amuse. Keep watching.

Dan Daley

Liberal Democrat, KCC councillor

I’ve no doubt Mike Thompson would be saying to Brexiteers “you lost, get over it” if he had got the outcome that he wanted.

I can’t believe that two years after the vote was cast to leave the EU he is still complaining about it.

Willington Street, Maidstone

So the debate on continued membership of the EU continues with Mike Thompson still thinking he speaks for the majority of Maidstone voters and most of the rest of Kent.

I therefore felt that it was time to again remind Mr Thompson and other remoaners that the outcome of a very democratic EU referendum in Maidstone was 58.8% to leave and 41.2% to

remain.

This was a clear decision which was repeated In all but one Kent areas.

It is also important to remind our two MPs of the majority’s strongly held views when EU matters are discussed. In 1975, like many others, possibly including Jeremy Corbyn, I voted to leave the EEC.

Since then I have had to reluctantly accept the decision and not keep harping on about what I had wanted.

Also, since 1975 we have seen a completely different Europe evolve. As in the 2016 referendum campaign many inaccurate claims were made by both sides but who would’ve guessed that by the late 80s the USSR would begin to collapse with eye watering grants being increasingly made to our new allies in East Europe. Around this time two new fictitious but accurately predictive series were made by Channel 4. These are still available to view and I urge

at least some readers to watch The Gravy Train/Goes East. For unbiased information on what the grants have cost us and where they are going “Google” - PHARE and EU Grants to New Entrant States. Take a tranquilliser first!

Tony Monk

Westerhill Road, Coxheath

I cannot see why the Brexit negotiations are so contentious. Surely all that is required is what we voted for in the 1975 referendum - a common market?

I recall there were those at the time who claimed that membership would lead to a loss of sovereignty, a United States of Europe, and similar horrors, but all were dismissed by the then prime minister Edward Heath who said on television: “There are some in this country who fear that in going into Europe we shall in some way sacrifice independence and sovereignty. These fears, I need hardly say,

are completely unjustified.”

Well, it’s all turned out rather differently, as we have seen. But Edward Heath knew he was being a little economical with the truth in his original broadcast as he admitted later in 1991 when asked by Peter Sissons: “The single currency, a United States of Europe, was all that in your mind when you took Britain in?” Heath’s reply: “Of course, yes.”

So we were mislead, because had the prime minister told the whole truth the referendum would not have produced the result he wanted. Churchill, as ever, seems to have summed us up rather well as long ago as 1930, when he wrote “We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked but not combined. We are interested and associated but not absorbed.” Quite. So let us have what we originally voted for - and have now voted for a second time.

Granville Davies

Station Cottages, Horsmonden