Time to say sorry to EU
I’M not a ‘Brexino’ (Brexiteer in name only) and don’t want to be a ‘Bremoaner’; I wanted us to remain in and radically reform and clean up the EU and its corruptions.
I still do and am not ashamed of it.
Like Ken Clarke, I have not yet had a Damascene conversion - and the longer it goes on, the less I expect to have one. I agree with Bren (“I did not vote for this mess”, Viewpoints December 19).
Perhaps they are a bit O.T.T. with their catena of contemptuous characterisation of the junta currently doing its best to “deliver Brexit”.
They have to use fudge, threats and fibs to ram an obstinately square peg into a tight round hole.
Ultimately they will fail as the EU’s requirements are clearly incompatible with those of Brexiteers who want us to go our own way having all the advantages and paying none of the dues.
You simply can’t have regulatory alignment and divergence at the same time!
As it is we are surrendering our sovereignty without being able to argue in Europe for what we believe and need.
Already decisions are made without us and our government is required to leave meetings like a naughty child.
And our government is desperately trying to flog off our standards to buy itself sham success and friends.
It’s nonsense. We should stop it, apologise for our national fit of pique (brought on for many by alienation from our own political system), and stop blaming others.
We need to rebuild our friendships with our neighbours; the sooner the better. B. Niemand, The Quays, Salford