Half out, half in, means in

The Prime Minister, in her Chequers agreement, has ignored the decision of the British people and produced a diluted white paper stating what she wants for Britain.

Instead of confronting Brussels with an iron set of proposals she will go cap in hand pleading with them to accept, what falls much shorter than what the majority of the British people voted for. We need a clean break, allowing the UK to claim back her borders, negotiating global trade deals, making our own laws through a Parliament that has for the past 40 years been a chained to EU laws that have taken away our independence, and our freedom to act as we wish but within the articles of the United Nations in which we have a seat on the Security Council.

As an independent country we need to leave the EU Trade and Customs Union and seek WTO Tariffs. If we don’t then we will still be tied to the EU, paying vast sums of money and forced to accept whatever new rules the EU passes.

The Remainers, who decry the Brexit voters as being bigots and stupid not knowing what they were voting for, unable to understand or grasp the consequences such a seismic decision would have upon the country, are wrong. The British people when or where they were asked replied they voted to leave the EU “to regain control of our borders”.

As a writer in The Times recently wrote ‘There is no such thing as a “hard” or “soft” Brexit. Being half out and half- in, with Britain still mired in EU laws and policies, means being in. George Howe