Why should UK pay for ‘dirt poor’?

ON Sunday, February 25 I happened upon an exhibition and demonstration by Remainers.

They’d parked a huge red bus in Durham city market place.

The bus was adorned with anti-Brexit propaganda. Even a policeman was there to protect them, and he said it was about “free speech.”

Enraged and incited by such shameless impudence plus the high-handed disregard for the wishes of the British people who voted to leave the EU, I could hardly control my anger.

This demonstration by the Remainers had nothing to do with ‘free speech.’ It was just a blatant and ignorant undemocratic insult against the result of the referendum.

The referendum was a decisive, first-past-the-post I SUDDENLY woke up in the middle of the night And saw I hadn’t put off the light I couldn’t understand why I didn’t put on the bedside lamp And then as I tried to turn I suddenly got cramp For the sheets were wrapped around my legs Like clothes on the washing line without the pegs Getting disentangled with my aching bones With a few choice words and a few moans I turned on the lamp and got out of bed and turned the light off And as I got into bed I started to cough Well there was no way of getting vote against joining a United States of Europe. Tax and rate payers have forked out enough for that odious continental club run from Brussels.

What is even worse now is the addition of all the ‘downand-out,’ dirt-poor countries that previously were satellite states of the old Soviet empire. back to sleep Even when I tried counting sheep It was not to be, so I lay there thinking With words in my head, I tried linking So passing the time I thought I might Try writing this poem in the early morning light It was no use trying to sleep that morning I just couldn’t help it I kept on yawning So that was my story of a restless night What a palaver just to turn off the bedroom light. ALAN WATERHOUSE, Seaton

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Some of our MPs and councillors love the idea of being members of an EU club, but it will fall to the average family of voters who will have to foot the bill in rates and taxes at a time when public services are being “cost cut” and coming apart at the seams.

JOHN CRESSWELL, Durham