Business chiefs take to Brexit lifeboats

AS the good ship Great Britain prepares to set sail for uncharted waters, holed below the waterline and listing badly, the big business chieftains line up to take the first lifeboats.

These folk did not tell us, before the referendum, that they might have to leave these shores if the leave vote were to win the day. Possibly they thought this so unlikely that no contingency plans were needed.

Independence from the alleged taskmasters of the EU may have seemed a good idea to those who felt that their voices, their needs and their aspirations were being ignored by the ruling classes who seemed to have more interest in keeping in the good books of big business and the rich, both with their well known dislike for paying taxes appropriate to their incomes.

Another large section of the population, the older generation, set in their ways and safe from financial want due to the prodigious rise in house prices over the last few decades hark back to the days of glory, not just to the time when the Spitfire ruled the skies and kept out the German marauders but even earlier days when half the countries in the world were coloured pink on the world map and Britannia ruled the waves.

Understandable these views may be but time has moved on, the support for fracking which is so obviously against ‘the will of the people’ indicates a ruling class which has neither sympathy for the views of ordinary people nor is it sufficiently aware of the need to combat global warming as a matter of urgency.

At the same time the practical businessmen, the realists in a time of disorder and make-believe make their preparations to take their businesses elsewhere if Mrs May is unable to conjure up a Brexit deal which will not ruin us financially and break up the UK.

We were pushed into an illinformed and badly designed referendum, disaster beckons, does no one care? Rod Slater, Warrington