Things can only get better with Brexit

Sir, - I read with interest that former Prime Minister Tony Blair has made it his mission to persuade British people to think again on their democratic decision to leave the EU.

According to Mr Blair, his justification for attempting to overturn last year’s 52% referendum vote to leave is that the British people voted “without knowledge of the true terms of Brexit”.

Now, I dare say, that is right.

Neither the Leave nor Remain side knew what was meant by Brexit and all its details, as leaving was a step into the unknown.

However, I’m surprised Mr Blair, being the astute politician and diplomat he undoubtedly is, doesn’t realise that the leap of faith the British people have elected to take speaks volumes for the disgruntlement that exists with their current lot as an EU state.

After all the butter mountains, wine lakes, failed farming and fisheries policies, and now the EU’s ineptitude in coming up with solutions to the chronic immigration problem, the British people have quite simply decided they’ve had enough.

I also find it quite hypocritical that during Mr Blair’s decade in office, he and Gordon Brown were architects of the zero-hours contract, a policy that not only flew in the face of the EU Social Chapter but which challenged the very principles of workers’ rights – a notion Mr Blair claimed to cherish when he first stood on the doorstep of Downing Street.

Back in 1997, on that New Labour dawn, the song Things Can Only Get Better heralded an age of promise and improvement – or so we were led to believe.

Just as that political soundtrack didn’t live up to its lyrics, neither do I think that the initial Brexit tune we’ll all be dancing to will be music to everyone’s ears.

However, unlike the last 44 years of EU rules and regulations, once Brexit has been thrashed out, we’ll have it in our power to change the tune and adopt our own music to suit the mood swings of the country, and that I think is the point Mr Blair fails to grasp. Jamie Buchan. Grove Road, Dundee.

Picture: Getty. Tony Blair believes the British people were misled by claims from the Leave campaign.