Airbus message sent to the wrong address

AIRBUS is, quite properly, considering its commercial future – but its concerns are going to the wrong address.

This country wants smooth trading arrangements with the EU after Brexit but the EU has not been interested in an amicable settlement.

It has delayed, month after month, and deployed every red herring it can think of, to avoid constructive negotiation.

They want to make things as difficult as they can in order to induce firms like Airbus and the banks to transfer their business to Europe; and they want to make things as difficult as they can for us, to deter other countries from walking out – as several might if we get a reasonable deal.

Our government has been at fault. When the EU first started its manoeuvres it should have called a halt to talks until there was a sensible timetable and agenda.

It should have refused to discuss side issues like the Irish border until the main questions had been answered.

It is desperately late but it can still rescue us by halting talks and demanding bona fide negotiations.

On our side, we have to be appalled by the Remainers who have done so much to obstruct and handicap our negotiating team.

More and more we are reminded of the 1930s, when there was so much resistance to rearmament and the willingness to sacrifice countries and people to the menace of those days.

David Sage Penclawdd, Swansea