Brexit is good, but the implementation is bad
IN RESPONSE to the letter from your correspondent G Albertella (“We are all now paying the true cost of Brexit”, Mailbox, September 29), I believe that the decision to leave the EU was correct and best for this country in the long term.
The concept of the EU is flawed. How can common laws and regulations and common tax rates be suitable for the different circumstances in 26 different countries?
Why should all countries be subject to European law?
Greece, in particular, has suffered from being unable to devalue its currency.
The EU is a bureaucratic and corrupt organisation.
Its accounts have been qualified for each of the past two decades, but it is too powerful to be subject to an independent enquiry and held to account.
It has hundreds of bureaucrats on tax-free mega salaries and expenses.
I believe that corruption is rife through the organisation, from top to bottom.
Many of its regulations are trivial and should never be the subject of regulation, but the bureaucrats must find something to justify their existence.
The ultimate aim of many is the abolition of national boundaries, which is reprehensible.
We were right to leave. Three things are self evident:
1) It was fortuitous but the early roll out of the Covid-19 vaccine saved thousands of British lives. This would not have been possible if we had remained in the EU;
2) Those MPs who continued to oppose Brexit after the referendum did great damage to our country. Either through ignorance or design, they do not understand how democracy works. Their actions both delayed the implementation of Brexit and made the task of our negotiators infinitely harder. They should hang their heads in shame;
3) The government has made a complete hash of implementing Brexit. Ministers have signed a trade agreement with the EU which appears unworkable.
Many of our present difficulties could and should have been foreseen, and indeed they were by many.
We have had five years to prepare but as far as I can see nothing whatsoever
has been done to mitigate these problems.
Charles Bagshaw, Houghton on the Hill