Simple Brexit solution so UK can prosper

PRIOR to our entry to the EEC in 1973, the UK was a sovereign and independent state whereby the electorate voted in national elections, and then the elected Parliament governed and passed laws until an election was convened, under our unwritten constitution, five years later.

I am bemused by all this talk of “soft” and “hard” Brexit when the primary role is simply the reinstatement of our sovereign status as it was back in 1973, just prior to EEC membership.

Negotiations should focus solely on attainment of this original sovereign nation status while simultaneously allowing the continuance of free trade until a revised free trade deal is agreed. It really is that simple.

All this alleged talk of EU officials undermining a mutually beneficial “divorce agreement” is simply immature, and the sooner the EU recognises that mutual economic co-operation benefits all European citizens then political and economic stability is guaranteed.

I am confident that the UK will thrive as a sovereign nation again, just as we did in our economic golden age of the 18th and 19th centuries when we, collectively as a nation, introduced industrial enlightenment and Adam Smith advocated the enormous benefits of free markets. We don’t need a bureaucratic and unwieldy European alliance to prosper. Ian Roblin

Cardiff