Time Leavers had rethink

IN a week when the chancellor informed us that we will be paying for Brexit for the next 46 years and Unilever, the giant Anglo-Dutch conglomerate, has decided to re-locate its headquarters to Rotterdam, even the most hardened Leaver is likely to be having second thoughts.

The collapse of large retail chains and the closure of apparently wellused stores by others, such as Marks & Spencer, may have other causes than Brexit to blame, but such changes are disquieting and hardly indicative of a good financial situation.

We long since gave up large-scale manufacturing in favour of financial and technological services but such industries are very susceptible to take-over by foreign companies.

Chinese and other outside money is increasingly influential in the financing of big construction projects and real estate purchase.

We are told that Brexit will enable us to regain our sovereignty and find new markets world-wide.

We are about to jettison our links with the world’s largest trading block for an uncertain future where trade is protected by tariffs imposed to sustain the positions of other nations who will trade with us when it suits them financially, business is business and no quarter will be given. Is this what Leavers really want?

Britain’s imperial past is long gone and will not return.

We are European, Europe is our heritage. We should stay where we are welcome and help make it work to our mutual advantage. Rod Slater, Lymm