Realism needed not just slogans

PLEASE can we have some realism from the political parties instead of the slogans and worn-out mantras we heard during the endless electioneering?

We voted for Brexit. We can’t be half in or half out. Talking about staying in the common market or keeping the social chapter simply undermines our negotiators and gives the EU the whip hand, it would cost us dear. Free trade with the EU is a different matter altogether and that should be achievable as in their interests as least as much as ours. Putting the provisions of the social chapter into our legislation is our own internal business and nothing to do with the EU.

The electorate made it clear they think Conservative proposals on welfare are too restrictive and Mrs May needs to rethink for the Queen’s Speech. The same applies to internal security.

Then the herd of elephants in the drawing room should be recognised: Britain (including Wales) is grossly overpopulated, we are lacking in skills of all kinds and our training and education systems need a real sense of desperate urgency, our productivity is far too low, it is madness to keep piling up the national debt which has to be serviced by a constantly-increasing share of our national income.

Immediately, it is now up to Mr Corbyn to take on the responsibility of leading a constructive opposition, to throw his new weight wholeheartedly behind our Brexit negotiators and urge social and economic reforms that recognise the elephants in the room. If he wants to renationalise the railways and get

water into not-for-profit companies, more power to his elbow. David Sage Penclawdd, Swansea