Stop plan to derail Brexit

Ged Taylor (Echo, September 30) attacks Coun George Howe for criticising Sunderland’s three Labour MPs over voting against leaving the EU.

Ged tries to correct Coun Howe over the percentage of people who voted to leave the EU and said it was only 52%. Actually CounHowe’s figure of 61% who voted to leave was accurate for Sunderland.

Instead of Labour MPs voting against the Reform Bill on completely spurious grounds they should support the majority who voted to leave. Instead they are trying to delay the process and eventually derail Brexit.

Ged then dips into Labour’s fake news pot and claims, without a shred of evidence, that the Government wants to scrap employment rights to make it easier to sack people, promote zero hour contracts and basically cut any rights that working people have. This is a complete fabrication.

The reason all EU legislation needs to be transferred into UK Law is that we need and want to retain many of these, including employment laws. It is also necessary to transfer them en bloc because to transfer the thousands of pieces of legislation one at a time and vote on them in Parliament would take years. Or is this what the Remoaners like Ged and our MPs really want?

Ged often refers disparagingly to Sunderland’s many working class Tories. Well these working class Tories along with Labour supporters voted in their thousands to leave the EU. It is about time the business owning Champagne socialists ceased their attempts to derail Brexit. Alan Wright, High Barnes