Remainers to blame for Brexit problems
After reading the June 23 letters, I felt minded to write on two issues: Firstly, illegal immigrants or refugees. Regular contributor Colin Bullen is clearly frustrated by the actions being taken by those whom Laura Manston obviously supports, to prevent any person, no matter how illegal their means of entry, from being flown to Rwanda.
Personally, I lean towards Mr Bullen’s view, because the alternative seems to be let them all in and stay, no matter how they got here, which I consider to be both impractical and irresponsible.
However, I am finding it difficult to comprehend how the basic driver of the Rwanda policy, to break the ‘business model’ of people smugglers, is going to work, because the government has been making big claims that Rwanda is a safe country and the hotels in which the people flown there are apparently to be housed look very comfortable indeed.
People smugglers are ruthless and frankly, as long as they get their money, they could not care less whether those they send across the Channel end up being allowed to remain in the UK or get flown to Rwanda. So, where is the deterrent? I cannot see that there is one, which leads me to conclude that the policy is doomed to fail to achieve its main objective.
Then there is Brexit: Philip Owen trots out the sad old argument that more people voted against the Conservatives than voted for them; conveniently ignoring the fact that under our voting system that is almost always the outcome of a general election, whether the elected government be Tory or Labour.
Worse than that is his spurious claim that only 17 million out of a population of 65 million voted for Brexit. It would be easy to respond by saying, whichever way you slice the figures more of the 65 million voted for Brexit than voted to remain, but that also would not be an accurate statement because of that 65 million a significant percentage were not entitled to vote.
As for Brexit being a disaster; there is only one group to blame for that. Rabid undemocratic remainers who fought tooth and nail to prevent the result being delivered, including forcing through a vote that removed the option of leaving without a deal. That meant all the ace negotiating cards were in the hands of the EU and Boris Johnson’s so-called ‘oven ready’ deal had to be jettisoned and he went into the negotiations with his hands tied. Consequently he had to make concessions on fishing, farming and worst of all, Northern Ireland.
No wonder the EU leaders lining up to shake his hand had gleeful grins. That is also why we do not yet have the Brexit we voted for, and the undemocratic remainers, who have never accepted the result, and who are still, even after six years, only too ready to hurl insults at those who voted for Brexit, should instead be hanging their heads in shame. Christopher Hudson-Gool